Our purpose is helping leaders and organizations transform to strengths-based management practices.  In pursuit of that purpose, our missions focus on each person afforded an opportunity to fully utilize their natural strengths. 

"Over and over, peak performers demonstrated superior awareness of the full range of factors determining the difference between what they could change or adapt and what they could not."

          -C. Garfield, Peak Performers 

After spending nine years as a teacher and coach, Mr. Johnson joined The Gallup Organization where he conducted over 600 seminars while helping thousands of professionals in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada gain skills in strength assessment and management practices.  Additionally, he has administered thousands of personal interviews and given verbal and written feedback to clients in a wide variety of industries, including food service, hospitality, retail sales, trucking, education, health care, and public agencies.

Synergistic Management Systems, Inc. was founded in 2000, by Larry S. Johnson.  Our philosophy is rooted in strengths-based management practices.  SMSI is dedicated to the development and impplementation of personal strengths assessment interviews for pre-employment screening and management action planning.  Hiring individuals with the right "fit" for the organizational culture and placing each person in a position where his/her strengths are optimally leveraged and honored are critical to attaining an exponential impact on organizational performance.

"...personal qualities such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness, ..to the degree your organizational climate nourishes these competencies, your organization will be more effective and productive.  You will maximize your group intelligence, the synergistic interaction of every person's best talents."

     -Daniel Goleman, Working With Emotional Intelligence