We unleash collective potential to build vital features

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(OUR STORY)

Our company was born in San Francisco in 1994 at the dawn of the dot-com era, when friends who met at Apple began helping startups and established enterprises realign their narrative, strategy, and culture around the concept of Purpose.

While typical consultancies focused on retooling systems and correcting inefficiency, SYPartners attracted clients who start by ‘dreaming one size bigger’ for their organizations. For more than 30 years, alongside those leaders we’ve shaped visions, built strategies, designed cultures, and aligned executive teams. We’ve shown up as their quiet partners through bull and bear markets, globalization and social upheaval, and technology paradigm shifts.
In a world where best practices get you to the same place everyone else is going, we've chosen instead to help leaders build vital futures by tapping into the collective potential of their organizations and ecosystems, and lead into the unknown.

Today, we serve a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients who continue to seek SYPartners’ help building organizations, societies, and cultures of humanity and performance. We operate from global headquarters in New York City and our office in Abu Dhabi.

Meet our team

Eva Avramov
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Eliza Fitzhugh
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Samantha Garfield
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Ellie Jabbour
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Thorsten Klein
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Sue Walsh
Principal, Design
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Mike Dargento
SVP, Business Intelligence and Revenue
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Olivia Hinds
Program Director & Head of Program Management
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Matt Kerns
Principal & Head of Strategy Team
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Matt Kay
Principal & Head of Design Team
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Sarah Malachowsky
SVP, Enterprise Strategy & Partnerships
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Guillermo Nagore
SVP, Design & Brand
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Meet our collaborators

Hiroki Asai
Chief Experience Officer, Airbnb
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Naveen Agarwal
Former Chief Customer Officer, Prudential
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Saira Jesani
Executive Director, Data & Trusted AI Alliance
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Stephen Friedman
Former President, MTV
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Bree Groff
Book author and future-of-work expert
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Martin Jetter
Fomer chairman, IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Majid Al Qassimi
Founder, SOMA MATER
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Former CEO, Ageas Portugal
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