About
Getting Better Results
When a client tells me his employees need training, I ask him what the problem is. He says, “They are just not doing what we want them to do.” And that begins the conversation.
After a discussion of the current situation, his business goals, and what’s been tried already, I ask the question, “If we move the clock forward to six months from now and you say to me ‘Helen, I don’t know how you did it but it worked’, I ask you ‘What does it look like?’ And that is where we start. We start with the desired results.
Improving Employee Performance
We at Performance Advantage serve as your learning and development resource for eLearning products and solutions. When you tell us your current human-resources challenge, we help you assess the problem and its possible causes. After a needs assessment, we help you understand your options to solve the problem. At that point, you choose from the strategies that we recommend to resolve it.
This approach educates you on the ways that your workforce can be developed to deliver the results your company needs to be profitable…without sacrificing your values of hard work, fairness, and work/life balance…because you know that satisfied, well-trained employees are the key to your business success.
Investing in Affordable, Portable eLearning
As a business owner, you know that investing in affordable, flexible, just-in-time training programs available in portable electronic formats for individualized, self-paced, remote instruction (via personal computers, mobile devices, and tablets) is the most cost-efficient and effective way to build staff knowledge and skills. Most times, that is enough. But in some cases, you’ll want remote one-to-one coaching to build on the eLearning.
Building a Learning Organization
Through our educational blog, eBooks, eCourses, and one-to-one coaching or advising services, your employees will learn how to work smarter and perform better so that your company can get better results and gain the performance advantage.
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Helen Z. Antholis | President | @helenantholis

For over 30 years, we’ve been helping people work smarter and get better results by solving human performance problems. Quite simply, we listen to you and help you to develop strategies to achieve your goals.
Take the first step in getting the results you want.
Work Experience:
- Human Resources Professional in Administration and Development for a major NYC bank serving 5,000 staff in 200 branches
- Training Director responsible for developing, conducting, and managing training programs in sales, management, supervision, customer service, product knowledge, and sales
- Organization Development Director in charge of designing, implementing, and managing change efforts for line and staff departments in branch banking division of a major NYC bank
- Business Development Director responsible for county economic development by consulting to and servicing local businesses and organizations with needs assessments and program delivery of technical, continuous improvement, and management development training programs
- Management Consultant and Sales & Marketing Director for independent training organization
- Authorized Representative for major international training organization serving community banks in NY, NJ, and PA selling and servicing programs in sales, service, and credit (consumer and commercial)
- Retail Banker serving NYC customers
- College Branch Campus Charter Director for county college responsible for all aspects of administration and enrollment for 1200 students and 100 faculty
- Professor in NJ private university
For balance and sharpening my creativity, I’m an Artist/Gallery Curator and Juried Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America. Here’s my “Liberty Bowl” award-winning pastel painting. More at www.antholisart.com. I also hold leadership positions as a volunteer in a local nonprofit.

Education:
Master of Administrative Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, 2008; FDU Graduate Certificates: Global Leadership and Administration
Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College
Clients:
Corporations, Small Businesses, Nonprofits, Individuals
Industries served:
Banking, Manufacturing, Service, and Higher Education
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Diana Antholis
Strategy Consultant & Media Director for Performance Advantage Inc. | Wellness Consultant | @dianaantholis

I have developed and implemented media plans for top clients in the consumer packaged goods, wireless telecommunications, restaurant, and sporting industries in New York City and San Diego, CA. My approach applies traditional and emerging strategies to multi-platform communications plans.
At Performance Advantage, I conduct social media advising sessions for small businesses wishing to sharpen their online presence and enhance their customer and client base. I also help create management, training, and sales eCourses for small businesses based on my research of organizational behaviors, work/life balance, and global leadership and my MA in Organizational Management.
As a Wellness Consultant, I help fabulous professional women lead centered, balanced lives through personalized mind and body exercises - making them feel happy, hot, and (back) in control by shifting the way they think about themselves. Read more at dianaantholis.com.
I am also the Founder of Enter: Adulthood, a blog dedicated to young adults who are transitioning into the “real world”, and the author of the Conquer Your Career e-Guide that contains 100 action steps to take control of your career. This is for career starters, job searchers, and career changers. Read more by clicking here.
Work Experience:
Media Planner, Marketing & Communications Strategy Consultant, Career Planning & Advising, Work/Life Consulting, Researcher, Mind & Body Coach, Personal Trainer, Artist, Writer, Author
Education:
Master of Arts, Organizational Management, Accelerated Fellows Program, George Washington University, Washington D.C., 2010
Bachelor of Science, cum laude, Advertising and Marketing Communications, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, State University of New York, 2005
Certified Personal Trainer, American Council on Exercise (ACE), 2011