LOCAL MARKET INSIGHT TO IMPROVE BUSINESS PERFORMAnce
Strategic Solutions for the Educational Services Community
delivering Metrics that matter
The local market metrics that matter most to your business
Understand your competition, customers, operations, and media landscape
Operational benchmarks to identify challenges and opportunities
Assess your performance against similar companies
Actionable Insights to improve performance
Grow revenues and increase profit by capitalizing on local market opportunities
How it works
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Gather and securely transmit key financial and operational data
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We crunch the numbers and you receive a customized evaluation comparing your performance to both local and national peers.
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Put the findings into action and see improvement in your company's performance.
About Us
Susan Powers
Susan Powers
Susan Powers
Susan Powers is a Partner and Co-Founder of Performance Arc, a data-based analytics company helping educational services companies improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage by collecting and benchmarking key metrics.
Susan has more than 30 years of strategic management experience. The child of two entrepreneurs, the l
Susan Powers is a Partner and Co-Founder of Performance Arc, a data-based analytics company helping educational services companies improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage by collecting and benchmarking key metrics.
Susan has more than 30 years of strategic management experience. The child of two entrepreneurs, the love of building businesses has informed Susan’s career. Starting at McKinsey & Company, continuing in the corporate world, and finally coming to full bloom with Woodlands Test Prep, Susan’s work passion has revolved around business analysis and process improvement. With her partner, Jim Friedman, a successful entrepreneur in the data analytics space, she started Performance Arc to provide answers to the question of “How am I doing?” in a collaborative, data-driven, locally focused way.
Susan holds a B.B.A. in Finance and B.A. in French from Southern Methodist University and received her M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jim Friedman
Susan Powers
Susan Powers
Jim Friedman is a Partner and Co-Founder of Performance Arc, a data-based analytics company helping educational services companies improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage by collecting and benchmarking key metrics.
Jim is a recognized analytics industry expert and innovator who brings more than 40 years of entreprene
Jim Friedman is a Partner and Co-Founder of Performance Arc, a data-based analytics company helping educational services companies improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage by collecting and benchmarking key metrics.
Jim is a recognized analytics industry expert and innovator who brings more than 40 years of entrepreneurial experience and a track record of innovation in the data analytics space, including successfully starting and selling two marketing analytic companies.
Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, he is a firm believer in data and its power to improve performance and increase return on investment. He started Performance Arc, his latest innovation in the data and analytics space, to bring these powerful data and analytics tools to local companies to address the growing need for companies to understand their local market through benchmarking of key business metrics. Together, with his partner Susan Powers, a strategic management executive and test prep company owner/operator, Performance Arc provides answers to the question of “How am I doing?” in a collaborative, data-driven, locally focused way.
Jim holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers College and received his M.B.A. in Marketing Management from Northeastern University.