who we are:
We're a group of leaders, analysts, advocates and strategists that thrive on sharing our experience and knowledge to help you make a success of your business. Our track record proves that clear communication and expert collaboration will boost your bottom line.
What we do:
Listening intently to what our clients are telling us about their business and current situation is the starting point for all our consulting projects. Dedicating the time upfront to clearly understand a client’s organizational interests and goals is key to our ability to get things done within aggressive timelines and strict budget constraints. Our intimate boutique-styled strategic management consultative engagement sets us apart and empowers us to influence and improve the operations and direction of a client’s business in the long run through innovative, actionable solutions in an increasingly complex market environment.
James sheffer, ceo
About James
Jim (“Shef”) is founder of Performa Consultative Services. He is a seasoned and influential organizational leader with extensive expertise in the Professional Cleaning Industry. Shef has incredible passion and exceptional ability to structure, motivate, and guide teams to solve challenging business issues within aggressive timelines and strict budget constraints. He is easily able to cast vision when identifying market trends, develop actionable insights, and develop smart solutions to advance our clients’ organizational interests and goals. Shef is a leading industry advocate for the advancement of innovative cleaning best practices. He has served on several councils including the Illinois Green Cleaning Council and the Product Policy and Best Practices Sub-Committees to create guidelines for the Illinois Green Schools Act (105-ILCS-140).
Perry shimanoff
Green Clean Audit Associate and Consultant
Perry Shimanoff the founder of Management and Communication Consultants (MC²) has joined Green Clean Audit as an Associate and Consultant.
Prior to starting MC2, Mr. Shimanoff worked as a senior consultant for a productivity management firm, systems engineer for a national data processing company, supervisor for methods improvements in one of the largest health insurance firms in the country and served as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Marine Corps. In 1982, MC² opened an office in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Bruce B. Robertson manages the OKC office, where all custom MC² computer software is designed, tested, manufactured, and distributed. MC² develops, sells, and supports computer software programs for maintenance work orders, custodial operations, the California Deferred Maintenance program, facility use, and injury and illness prevention program and safety systems. Since 1991, Perry has served as CASBO’s official custodial trainer – as of August 2020, 23,800 custodians have attended cleaning seminars facilitated by our firm.MC² provides custodial advisory services, ranging from staffing analysis, routing and work loading, validating cleaning standards, etc. to team cleaning implementation programs. Further, MC² has published 40 articles in national trade journals. He served on the Board of Directors as the Vice President and Treasurer of the International Custodial Advisory Network (ICAN). Recently, Mr. Shimanoff received his “master’s certification training” from the Cleaning Management Institute and is one of 5 ISSA certified trainers in the United States!
John falzarano
Executive Consultant
John Falzarano has worked exclusively in the B2B marketplace mainly for paper manufactures that sell to both distribution and end users in all vertical markets. Outside of manufacturers he worked 6 years for a B2B national distributor that sold both Jan San and Packaging Solutions. Most recently he was responsible for co-developing the sales and the distributions strategy for an IoT (Internet of Things) restroom platform. This work included co-developing the content along with the training itself for a paper manufacturer and numerous distribution sales teams. This platform was connected to restroom fixtures and equipment to drive labor and consumable cost saving and improve the user experience. His other roles have included sales, global account management, sales management, national distribution management along with the previously mentioned IoT commercialization role. He has experience in sales, supply chain, logistics, forecasting, customer insights, category management and product development, and commercialization.