Bruce is the President/Founder of Performance Connections International, a training and consulting firm specializing in strategy fulfillment through employee and customer engagement.

Prior to founding Performance Connections, Bruce ran MOHR/Blessing White and was an executive with Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Bruce is known as an industry leader: of “firsts”: He was one of the original professionals that merged banking and brokerage in the 80’s, was one of the first HRD professionals to launch e-learning in the corporate workplace, and is considered a world opinion leader in the field of employee engagement And retention.

Bruce is considered the consultants’ consultant - often called on by other training firms to create their market programs for them, such as DDI, Blessing White, ITS and Dupont. Bruce is widely published and often a keynote speaker at conference presentations.

He is an associate professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and one of the founders of the NYU Training and Development Diploma Program.

At Performance Connections, Bruce is responsible for executive consulting, solution development, and managing our domestic and international consultants.

Herbert A. Cohen is Senior Managing Partner for Performance Connections.

Prior to his tenure in the performance improvement industry, Herb was a senior executive at Melville Corp (now CVS), where he was President of Miles Shoes, V.P. of Management Development at Meldisco, and V.P. of Stores at CVS.

Prior to joining Performance Connections, Herb was one of the original principles of MOHR Development, Inc, one of the nation’s leading training/consulting companies best known for pioneering behavior modeling techniques. Herb went on to become the CEO of MOHR Learning Systems, Inc., a specialty training firm and the nation’s largest retail training resource, increasing sales, improving customer service, and organizational productivity for hundreds of retailers.

In1998, Herb became a founder and Director of Provant, a company offering the largest instructional performance improvement content in America. Also at Provant, Mr. Cohen took on the position of group President responsible for all Provant companies with an industry focus.

Herb is a past President of ISA, an association of over 150 training and multimedia organizations dedicated to improving performance through training.

At Performance Connections, Herb is responsible for executive consulting, business development, distributor management, and specializes in working with Retail clients.