Managing Partners

Mason Holloway, Managing Partner
Platinum Performance Group

Mr. Holloway has an extensive professional background, including 16 years in senior management and consultative positions working in business consulting, business operations, sales and Human Performance Improvement (HPI). He is a senior analyst, performance technologist and experienced practitioner of the HPI processes. He has demonstrated skills and expertise in assisting companies in meeting and exceeding aggressive and competitive organizational goals and improving overall business results through HPI processes.

Mr. Holloway’s clients have included The U.S. Navy, National Technical Information Service, L.L. Bean, Social Security Administration, Accelera Corporation, ServiceMaster, ADP and Microsoft. Early in Mr. Holloway’s career he focused his skills in the development of marketing and sales programs working with Cellular One (now Cingular). Mr. Holloway went on to found and develop a nationally recognized publishing company, serve as digital content delivery consultant to a major content provider and work with a team developing a contextual learning management system for the United States Government, among other achievements. As a respected consultant in the areas of training delivery and performance, Mr. Holloway applies the combination of his extensive real world business experience and acumen with a deep understanding of the fundamental principals of performance in the service of accomplishing business goals.

Spanning the disciplines of performance, learning and development, Mr. Holloway’s work has included: performance-based information taxonomies, performer-centric call center interface design, the development of a contextual learning engine, extensive front-end analysis, online content development and delivery, and performance-based curriculum development.

Most recently, working with partner Dennis Mankin, Mr. Holloway led the design and development team in the creation of Performance DNA™, the most comprehensive and effective toolset for analyzing human performance. Performance DNA has been co-copyrighted by Platinum Performance Group and ASTD and is the only methodology taught in the prestigious Human Performance Improvement (HPI) certificate program.

Mr. Holloway has taught the Performance DNA approach to hundreds of individuals across the United States and internationally in Thailand, India, Greece and Malaysia. He is an expert in the methodology and his facilitation style has made him a sought after instructor.

He graduated from University of Maryland with B.A. in English and Business and continued graduate studies in Management at James Madison University.

Dennis Mankin, Managing Partner
Platinum Performance Group

Mr. Mankin has an extensive professional background, including 25 years in senior management and consultative positions working in business consulting, executive coaching, sales and Human Performance Improvement (HPI). He is CPT, project manager and facilitator of HPI processes worldwide. He has demonstrated skills and expertise in assisting organizations in exceeding competitive organizational goals and improving overall business results using HPI processes. He is a co-author and co-publisher of Performance DNA (analysis tools), used for the analysis of human performance and the “tools of choice” by over 3,000 HPI analysts worldwide.

His consulting career includes working with (and Managing) a number of training and consulting firms headquartered in the Baltimore/Washington DC area. Mr. Mankins’ clients have included ASTD, ServiceMaster, CitiFinancial, Johns Hopkins Health System, Pfizer, NSA, Bank of America, Microsoft and State Farm Insurance, to name just a few. Early in Mr. Mankin's career, he focused his skills in the marketing and sales arena specifically working with Ameritech and ABC Television. Mr. Mankin has been a successful sales professional, the president of a top producing training/consulting organization headquartered in Washington DC, and a well-respected business consultant and coach in the field of HPI and organizational development.

Over the last 20 years, Mr. Mankin has successfully worked as a senior consultant/analyst, and is a sought after facilitator and executive coach for many companies, as well as, a speaker for a number of Fortune 500 organizations and International conferences hosting HPI processes.

He graduated with honors from Western Michigan University with majors in Behavioral Psychology and Interpersonal Communications, including graduate studies in psychology and facilitating the transfer of HPI processes to others.

Mr. Mankin is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) through ISPI and ASTD.
He is an adjunct professor at the University Of Tulsa, Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and a guest lecturer to other colleges and Universities in performance improvement.

Mr. Mankin has been a licensed captain in the United States Coast Guard since 1986.