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Workforce Readiness Drives Business Performance

Construction, infrastructure, industrial, and energy organizations don’t have a growth problem. They have a workforce readiness problem.

As demand accelerates, organizations face increasing pressure to find, onboard, develop, and retain the people needed to execute safely, productively, and profitably.

Synthology helps organizations build workforce capacity through operational expertise, workforce intelligence, leadership development, and AI-enabled workforce systems that accelerate readiness and improve performance.

Build the workforce behind the work.

WHY WE EXIST

Workforce Problems Become Project Problems

Workforce challenges rarely stay workforce challenges.

They become productivity issues, leadership bottlenecks, turnover, knowledge loss, safety risks, schedule pressure, and execution challenges.

At Synthology, we help organizations close the gap between workforce capability and business demand so they can grow with confidence.

What Makes Synthology Different

Built at the Intersection of Workforce, Operations, and Technology

Synthology was founded by leaders who have spent decades helping organizations solve workforce challenges through operational excellence, leadership development, workforce transformation, and technology innovation.

Our team has helped shape the evolution of:

Today, we bring those lessons together to help organizations build workforce systems that improve operational performance.

The Team Behind Synthology

Supported by leaders with experience across construction operations, workforce readiness, leadership development, technology, and business transformation.

Cristine Lipscomb

CEO & Founder

Workforce Readiness | Strategy | Growth
Operations | Execution | Scaling

Eric Austvold

Chief Revenue Officer

Growth | Market Development

Meet the Synthology Advisors

John Schwartz

Strategic Partnerships, Workforce Transformation & Global Growth

Conrad Voorsanger

Strategic Growth, Product Innovation & Partner Ecosystems

Janet Eden-Harris

Revenue Growth, Go-to-Market Strategy & Market Leadership

Eddy Kleinhans

Strategic Transactions, Business Operations & Corporate Governance

Kathy Bagby

Financial Strategy, Operational Scale & Organizational Growth

Lynette Phillips

Change Enablement, Organizational Effectiveness & Workforce Transformation

WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE SYNTHOLOGY

We bring together workforce strategy, operational expertise, leadership development, and technology innovation.

Our experience spans global enterprises, workforce technology companies, military organizations, large-scale transformation programs, and frontline operations.

That perspective allows us to build practical solutions that deliver measurable business results.

Building the Workforce of the Future

The organizations that win tomorrow will be the ones that can prepare, develop, and retain talent faster than their competitors.

Synthology helps make that possible through workforce intelligence, operational expertise, leadership development, and AI-enabled workforce systems that accelerate readiness and improve performance.

Because workforce readiness isn’t an HR initiative. It’s an operational advantage.

FAQs

Synthology improves workforce readiness on live construction work. We help Principals-in-Charge and Project Executives protect schedule adherence, labor productivity, first-year retention, and margin across the project organization. Expert-led. Tech-enabled. We identify where alignment is breaking down, put support in place while people remain on the work, and report movement on the numbers operators already own.

Day to day, Synthology works with Principals-in-Charge, Project Executives, VPs of Operations, and project leaders inside general contractors and construction managers. HR and people leaders partner where policy, data, onboarding, and retention intersect with the work.

Yes. The same live-job system applies where schedule, labor productivity, and leadership depth determine whether backlog converts to margin, including infrastructure, industrial, utility, renewable, transmission, and data-center construction.

Professional-services spend may count toward applicable participation goals when Synthology holds the required certification and the engagement satisfies the specific program rules and commercially useful function requirements. Confirm eligibility for each project before representing the spend as countable.

Synthology improves workforce readiness on live construction work. We help Principals-in-Charge and Project Executives protect schedule adherence, labor productivity, first-year retention, and margin across the project organization. Expert-led. Tech-enabled. We identify where alignment is breaking down, put support in place while people remain on the work, and report movement on the numbers operators already own.

Day to day, Synthology works with Principals-in-Charge, Project Executives, VPs of Operations, and project leaders inside general contractors and construction managers. HR and people leaders partner where policy, data, onboarding, and retention intersect with the work.

Yes. The same live-job system applies where schedule, labor productivity, and leadership depth determine whether backlog converts to margin, including infrastructure, industrial, utility, renewable, transmission, and data-center construction.

Professional-services spend may count toward applicable participation goals when Synthology holds the required certification and the engagement satisfies the specific program rules and commercially useful function requirements. Confirm eligibility for each project before representing the spend as countable.

Synthology addresses workforce issues through the operating outcomes they affect: schedule adherence, labor productivity, time-to-productivity, leadership capacity, execution consistency, and margin. HR may be a partner, but Synthology is not a staffing company and the primary business problem sits with operations.

Proof first, then expand. A successful first project can lead to a second live job, additional project organizations, critical roles, onboarding journeys, or leadership cohorts. Expansion follows measured operating movement rather than preceding it.

Give Us One Active Project

One project. One role. One leadership cohort. One workforce challenge. Measure what matters. Improve performance. Prove the results.

Cristine Lipscomb

CEO & Founder

Cristine Lipscomb is a workforce transformation executive with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations improve business performance through workforce strategy, technology, and organizational transformation.

Her career spans the evolution of learning technology, workforce intelligence, skills-based talent systems, XR, and AI-enabled workforce solutions. Prior to founding Synthology, she was a Managing Director with Accenture and founder of an HRTech company, advising executives on workforce transformation and performance improvement across global organizations.

Today, she leads Synthology’s mission to help organizations solve one of the greatest constraints to growth: workforce readiness.

Greg Boylan

Chief Operating Officer

A retired U.S. Army Colonel, Greg Boylan brings more than three decades of experience leading operational transformation, strategic planning, and leadership development initiatives.

Throughout his career, Greg has built and led high-performing teams in some of the world’s most complex environments, including theater-level operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and most recently served as Director of Strategic Resource Planning and Integration at West Point, overseeing the Academy’s long-term modernization strategy.

His expertise helps organizations strengthen leadership, improve execution, and build workforce systems that support sustainable growth.

Eric Austvold

Chief Revenue Officer

Eric Austvold is an accomplished growth executive with extensive experience accelerating revenue, expanding market presence, and building high-performing commercial organizations.

Prior to joining Synthology as Chief Revenue Officer, Eric held executive leadership roles with organizations including ToolsGroup, Infor, MarkLogic, Nearmap, and BondLink, where he helped drive revenue growth, expand market presence, strengthen customer relationships, and execute go-to-market strategies that supported long-term business performance.

At Synthology, he helps clients connect workforce investments directly to operational and financial outcomes.