Farbest Performance, an organizational development and training firm in Montvale, NJ, has been providing custom designed training programs in Strategic Planning, Leadership and Management Development, Communication, Team Building, Customer Service, Selling Skills and Self Development Skills for a wide variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial institutions, retail trade, and utility companies for over 15 years.

Farbest Performance’s clients include Wakefern Food Corporation, New York Mercantile Exchange, Core-Mark International, Balchem Corporation, Provident Bank, Public Service Electric & Gas of New Jersey, St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Health Quest, Craft and Hobby Association, Catskill Medical Center, Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Ulster Federal Credit Union, Orange County AHRC, Foster Farms Corporation, and ICI Paints Packaging & Coatings and Pitney Bowes International Mail Services as well as many other organizations.

Donna Bell, Director and management development consultant for Farbest Performance, has been in the Training and Organizational Development field for over 20 years. She holds an MBA, specializing in Organizational Development, from St. Mary's College of California and a Masters in Education from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Before consulting, Donna held management positions at Del Monte Foods Corporation and Core- Mark International Corporation both in San Francisco, CA. Her responsibilities encompassed various aspects of sales management, sales training and marketing management.

Donna has served as an elected officer on the Board of Directors for the Greater Montvale Business Association in Bergen County, New Jersey and currently, is an elected board member for the Florida, NY public library. Donna is a member of both the American Society for Training and Development and the Society for Human Resource Management.

Judith Rosner, a management development consultant for Farbest Performance, has been in the Training and Organizational Development field for over 25 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Organizational Development from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Before consulting, she taught at Texas Christian University and chaired the Division of Social Sciences at Mount Saint Mary College. She also completed a post doctoral program at New York University in sociology.

Judy was selected to attend one of the most intensive professional development programs for human resource practitioners – the University Associates Intern Program in Organizational and Human Resource Development.

Judy is a founding Director of Leadership Orange (a community leadership program in New York State) and volunteers in a host of other community organizations. She belongs to the American Society for Training and Development, the American Sociological Association, the Orange County and Warwick Valley Chambers of Commerce, and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a 1996 recipient of the Woman of Achievement Award in Orange County, New York. Judy has published in the areas of program evaluation, stress and health, and women in the professions. She has also written a Human Resource column for Inside Business.

OUR STRENGTHS

We bring value to our clients by developing partnerships with them at every level of the organization. We work with executives, their senior management teams, and their boards to develop strategy and direction for the organization. Then we work with managers to develop ways to implement that strategy. Sometimes this involves training, sometimes coaching, and sometimes both. And finally, we work with the people on the front lines – those who deal with customers every day and portray the organization to the community. As a result, there is a connectedness, a linking, of goals of the organization and how an employee interacts with customers and co-workers. Moreover, our clients ask us back again and again because of the bottom-line effectiveness of this approach and the strong relationships we develop with their people.

By being flexible, we not only customize our programs, but we adjust our presentations easily to the cultures of various organizations as well as the personal preferences or styles of the people we work with.

We create partnerships with the organizations we serve. We become familiar with the workforce in their area as well as the customer base they serve. We bring this knowledge to the boardroom and the classroom ¯ from strategic planning to customer service.