Keith Waldman
Senior guard Bobby Henning: “Just cooperation. You can have as many individuals on one team, and if you're not playing together as a team, then what gets in your way is no cooperation”. Senior Guard: Kyle Burke: “He stressed a lot of not pointing fingers. If someone screws up, you all screw up.” Continue reading
"Keith Waldman and his associates at OPA have a very unique and creative approach to performance enhancement and team building. They are able to teach important and effective psychological skills in fun and stimulating team-building activities. His series of team initiatives are a must for managers, supervisors, and coaches who are seeking to improve communication patterns, performance levels, and skill development among their employees, players, and teammates." Continue reading
Mr. Keith Waldman and his associates at OPA showed an excellent ability to engage our students and build an excellent rapport with our staff. The OPA challenge programs are innovative and creative. What was unique about the OPA youth challenge program was Mr. Waldman's ability to apply sport psychology principles into an adventure-based counseling program. Continue reading
Mr. Keith Waldman and his associates at OPA are not your standard consulting group. Their ideas, messages, and teaching methods are unique and highly effective. They created a fun, interesting, and non-threatening atmosphere that allowed the most critical of my employees to learn and improve their performance. OPA helped us generate a considerable improvement in our teamwork that led to significant improvement in our results. OPA was an investment in my people and our objective that is paying returns to us tenfold every month." Continue reading
“The OPA team building workshop was a great learning experience. I learned that being a member of a team is an important skill to master and that we need to rely on others to get the job done.” “Thanks for facilitating your team building during our residency retreat. The group thoroughly enjoyed it!” “The OPA activities were well organized and the lead facilitator did a great job leading the team building experience.” Continue reading
The superb team from Optimal Performance Associates has joined Esperanza for the past four years at our annual staff development retreat, and we couldn't be more pleased with the results. Through team-building and problem-solving exercises with real applicability to the workplace, our staff comes away enriched every year. Also, the expert trainers from Optimal create an environment of camaraderie and support, so everyone feels engaged. Continue reading
"We’ve been utilizing Keith Waldman and OPA as the team building facilitators for our residential life Hall Advisers for the past several years. Every year our staff ranks the teambuilding initiatives as the highlight of their orientation. Keith and his associates are creative, energetic, flexible and extremely personable. It’s always a pleasure to work with Keith because he invests the time and resources needed to help achieve your goals. I look forward to a continued partnership with Keith and OPA for our future training programs." Continue reading
"For the last six years, OPA has been providing mentor training and a daylong freshman experience for the students of NPHS. The 'Can Do' attitude of the OPA trainers is infectious leaving the students with the believe that with teamwork, hard work and perseverance, anything can be accomplished" Continue reading
Keith's program has been instrumental in bringing the Shawnee Green Dot trained students to a greater knowledge of themselves and each other. From the moment Keith began working with them he put them at ease with his activities and his perspective on team building. He helped the group not only get to know each other but to see what strengths and qualities they each had as they learned to work together as a team to complete a task. Continue reading
Your team was absolutely amazing! There were more than 35 students of different ethnic background, ages, life experience and different level of physical fitness - you all nailed it! Each and every student participated and said that your activities were mentally and physically challenging. Everyone could take part in the team building and leadership activities. Continue reading
I have had the pleasure of working with Keith Waldman and his staff for more than 4 years and have used his services at various special events throughout the New Jersey public school districts I have worked. Optimal Performance Associates, LLC has played an integral role in our School-Based Youth Services Program, assisting with the training of various student leaders in peer mentor and mediation programs, as well as our staff at professional development outings. Continue reading
I would like to express my thanks for the superior character education workshop you provided the students of Lafayette Mills School. My teachers and students learned a great deal from your program. The results can be seen throughout our school. Asking children to continually ask the best of themselves is critical in building and maintaining a positive climate in any school. Continue reading
Middle School is tricky age to work with! Our school's emphasis on Caring Community strives to support both the emotional development of young adolescents as well as the development of leadership abilities in our 7th and 8th grade students, and our work with Keith and his OPA teams for the last four years have been an integral part of this initiative. Their emphasis on team building and problem solving start our year off with "best foot forward" for both students and staff. Continue reading
"Keith Waldman and his associates at OPA have a very unique and creative approach to performance enhancement and team building. They are able to teach important and effective psychological skills in fun and stimulating team-building activities. His series of team initiatives are a must for managers, supervisors, and coaches who are seeking to improve communication patterns, performance levels, and skill development among their employees, players, and teammates." Continue reading
"Mr. Keith Waldman and Optimal Performance Associates have facilitating team-building workshops with The New Jersey Youth Corps of Camden County for six years. Keith Waldman is a master at creating adventurous, hands-on activities that are used metaphorically to help corps members’ process issues in their classes and in life. Our Corps members and staff find him to be energetic, enthusiastic, and effective" Continue reading
"I found the workshop to be very enlightening and it taught us the importance of teamwork and having a common vision. The facilitators were very knowledgeable and would highly recommend this workshop to other school districts." "The OPA team-building workshop got me motivated and pumped up for the start of the school year. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and the facilitators should be commended because they actually made it fun." Continue reading
"What an addition Keith Waldman and his associates have been to the Natural Helpers Program!!! Thank you Keith and Optimal Performance Associates for helping to teach our students important life, leadership and teambuilding skills through fun, hands-on adventure based activities. Some of the comments made by the students were "Mission Impossible was very hard, but I was very fun," Continue reading
"Thank you for all that you did for our team this season. I really think all the team building, team chemistry and mental preparation tactics you brought to our team really helped us. Although our record at the end of the season was not what we had hoped for, I do believe that our team chemistry was so great and the team attitudes were so strong and positive, it was just awesome... and I do think that in a large part had a lot to do with your help. I thought that you really helped our team come together in so many different ways. Continue reading
Ms. Angie Sheets, Director of Residence Life of Bryn Mawr College says: "We’ve been utilizing Keith Waldman and OPA as the team building facilitators for our residential life Hall Advisers for the past several years. Every year our staff ranks the teambuilding initiatives as the highlight of their orientation. Keith and his associates are creative, energetic, flexible and extremely personable. It’s always a pleasure to work with Keith because he invests the time and resources needed to help achieve your goals. I look forward to a continued partnership with Keith and OPA for our future training programs." Continue reading
Mr. Christopher Defillippis of AT&T Telecommunications Says: Mr. Keith Waldman and his associates at OPA are not your standard consulting group. Their ideas, messages, and teaching methods are unique and highly effective. They created a fun, interesting, and non-threatening atmosphere that allowed the most critical of my employees to learn and improve their performance. OPA helped us generate a considerable improvement in our teamwork that led to significant improvement in our results. OPA was an investment in my people and our objective that is paying returns to us tenfold every month." Continue reading