Our Mission
We take on energy, economic, and environmental policy and planning challenges with technical expertise, curiosity, and integrity.
Our Vision
To make meaningful progress addressing climate change and achieving energy, economic, environmental, and equity goals through innovative research and independent technical analysis. And to thoroughly enjoy our work by fostering a respectful, collaborative, diverse, engaging, creative, and fulfilling working experience.
Our Core Values
The Public Interest
We design, conduct, and present our research and analyses with the goal of advancing the public interest, which includes achieving energy, economic, environmental, and equity goals.
Staff Empowerment
We empower each staff member through respect, input into decision-making, opportunities for professional development, and flexibility to pursue individual interests.
Client Commitment
We strive to understand the diverse needs and perspectives of our clients and to meet their needs as effectively as possible, consistent with our vision statement and core values.
Analytical Integrity
We maintain transparency, rigor, candor, excellence, and integrity in all aspects of our work.
Innovation
We encourage continuous learning and development of new methods, tools, and approaches to nurture progress in our industry and to pursue our vision.
Collaboration
We promote a constructive and collaborative culture, inside and outside of Synapse and across all levels of staff. Our flexible organizational structure encourages staff to collaborate across a variety of projects, topics, and clients.
Communication
We foster frequent, candid, respectful, accessible, and constructive communication—inside and outside of Synapse and across all levels of staff—to ensure project success, client satisfaction, staff development, a healthy work environment, and public outreach.
Equity and Justice
We promote equity, inclusion, and justice in all aspects of our business.
Work-Life Balance
We flexibly plan and manage our workflow to ensure that staff can achieve their professional goals while nurturing their personal aspirations.
Financial Health
We recognize that Synapse’s financial health is a key element of our success and important to supporting Synapse’s mission and values. To this end, we operate efficiently, evolve thoughtfully, compensate staff fairly, and maintain a sustainable organization.
