Our People

You’ve never encountered a consulting firm like Performance Vistas!

Although Performance Vistas was formed as recently as 1998, our people have worked together under contract to several states, and for over twenty years. Since 1981 this team has served state agencies in seven states. That includes the Departments of Human Services in Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota; Florida’s Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services; South Carolina’s Department of Social Services; Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration; the Virginia Department of Child Support and Enforcement; as well as the Florida Administrative Office of the Courts and Tennessee’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs.

Bailey and "Capm" Woody Pelt, our video producer and webmaster, collaborated on video training case studies for law enforcement and CPS workers for the first time in 1986. Since then, the two have partnered up for six other video training projects – designing, scripting, shooting and editing – studies in three states for CPS risk assessment training, for welfare-to-work culture change training, for leadership training and for performance management systems. These two were also our lead developers for the web site you are viewing!

Bailey and Grimm met James Shine in South Carolina in 1996, and began a collaborative partnership that served us for several years there. In 1999, we teamed again to develop strategic planning processes, performance measurement and evaluation systems for the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs. We are entering our third consecutive year of contracts in partnership with OCJP – and with our associates, Parnham, Pelt and Reid.

Grimm and Judge John Parnham are lifelong friends who happen to work in the same field: family-oriented juvenile justice services. Parnham is a noted family court judge in Escambia County, Florida. He is a nationally recognized expert in the area of drug courts for juveniles. Grimm has operated and facilitated the services of a number of provider agencies that serve Judge Parnham’s court. Together, they have revolutionized juvenile court services for families out of patience and out of options for their teens. They work with Bailey and Reid in Tennessee.

Bailey and Ed Reid are also friends who share a love of facilitating growth and professionalism among private, non-profit social service agencies like shelters and advocacy centers. Reid has served as Board chair and United Way leader, lending the perspective of his banking and planning backgrounds. He and Bailey are teamed up to facilitate the Tennessee performance measurement and evaluations sessions for victim service agencies in Tennessee in 2002-03.

Ashley Grimm is our lead person on data and database analysis. She’s worked with us for three years in Florida and Tennessee. She was the lead designer of the sophisticated online grant application tool we created in 2001-2. The folks in Tennessee applaud her as the developer of the database that makes outcome reporting manageable in their state. Ashley is partnered with Reid and Bailey for TA and training. Oh, and even if she were not Dick’s daughter, her people skills and technical abilities would still make her an asset to the Performance Vistas team!

At PVI, Priority One is establishing a firm foundation of trust with our clients. We are a few dedicated individuals with backgrounds a whole lot like the leaders of our client-partners. We make one of the best teams you can imagine, bringing energy and love for what we do to the best folks on Earth – your public service employees. We stay small to control which projects we take on, then we work to delight our clients. Most of our work is follow-up to previous projects. We rarely have to bid competitively; once in, our clients find other work they need us to do.