Administration

Director of Business Management


For more than 30 years, Ms. Synthia Laura Molina has helped social-benefit pioneers in the education, social services, and healthcare industries improve their performance, outcomes, and impacts by (1) delivering unparalleled value to mission-aligned individuals, organizations, and communities; (2) building honorable, hyper-scalable, and high-performing enterprises; and (3) engaging stakeholders in support of the greater good, a better-functioning society, and human flourishing.

The middle child among seven siblings—and the daughter of a college English professor and a painter-pianist-performer turned homemaker—Ms. Molina developed a love for the classics, humanities, and liberal arts at an early age. With her academic studies funded by merit-based scholarships, grants, and employment, she (1) focused on the premedical sciences and arts as an early undergraduate at UC Berkeley and Pomona College; (2) pivoted to business and organizational psychology while fully employed by Johnson & Johnson and completing her bachelor’s degree at University of La Verne’s evening program for working adults; and (3) embraced transdisciplinary philosophies, principles, and practices in studying strategy, leadership, and general management with Peter F. Drucker at Claremont Graduate University (a member of The Claremont Colleges consortium near Los Angeles, California). Top-ranked in her graduating class—and known for celebrating excellence from the frontlines to the boardroom—she was recruited to lead the Drucker MBA Program in the mid-1990s, head the Drucker School Alumni Association in the early 2000s, and serve on the Advisory Board for every dean of the Drucker School of Management for more than three decades.

A successful serial entrepreneur—and an expert in corporate jumpstarts, turnarounds, and transformations—Ms. Molina has led mission-critical initiatives for dozens of organizations (including new ventures, small-to-midsize businesses, multinational corporations, nonprofits, and public-private collaboratives). Her client list includes now-prominent startups like Medical Data International (IMS Health–IQVIA), Neoforma (GHX), and WebMD (that needed to survive the dotcom crash); biopharma, medtech, and digital-health companies like Bayer, Philips, and Kooth (that wanted to document increasingly favorable real-world results); and world-class nonprofits like the American Red Cross, Kaiser Permanente, and the University of California (that sought to protect and enhance their roles as industry thought and practice leaders).

With years of ministry support work for Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, Ms. Molina joined the leadership team of Jackson Hole Classical Academy to (1) help the community focus on strengths; (2) create digitally enabled learning systems that support a culture of continuous improvement; and (3) apply management as a liberal art to counter distracting principalities. Her methods reflect the digitally remastered thinking, techniques, and tools of Peter F. Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, and Will Durant (among others). She is accountable for business policies, systems, and processes in marketing, finance, and operations—as well as human resources, information technology, and special programs (like JHCA campus expansion inclusive of design-build-manage considerations).

Director of Operations

The Ohio State University, B.S., Forestry & Wildlife