Bios

Michael Holland

Michael Holland founded Bishop House Consulting, Inc. in 1999 to provide organizational leadership expertise to companies experiencing dynamic change.  With more than 23 years of experience, Michael brings his executive leadership, business management and organizational development expertise to bear for Bishop House clients, with an emphasis on leadership development and executive coaching in periods of change.  He has provided distinguished coaching services to well over 200 leaders in organizations ranging from start-ups to corporations with revenues exceeding $7.5 billion.  Michael earned a MBA from University of Baltimore. 

In addition to his role as President and Owner of Bishop House Consulting, Michael currently serves on the Area Committee for YoungLife Capital Region and previously served on the Board of Directors for Gilda’s Club Capital Region New York.  Michael is active in the Burnt Hills community where he lives with his wife and three kids.

Robin Perry

Robin Perry brings a 20 plus year career in human resources, management, and training and development to her work at Bishop House Consulting, Inc. Robin has developed an expertise in working with individuals and teams to maximize their effectiveness in how they work together, to improve business results.

Professionally, Robin served in a senior human resource leadership position, as well as the Director of Training and Development, for Kaiser Permanente’s Northeast Division. In these senior leadership roles Robin provided direction and oversight of all human resource and professional development functions. During her tenure there the company grew to over 3,000 employees before closing the Northeast Division. Robin’s experience in working through rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions, and downsizing provides her with an understanding of the many transitions companies and employees experience in today’s marketplace.

Prior to Kaiser, Robin held a marketing management position for a national rehabilitation company in Boston. “Leading and motivating employees to do their best and exceed previous year’s goals was always a challenge," states Perry. Robin finds that her current work with teams often pulls from her experience in leading a marketing team. “We need to find what makes each person ‘tick,’ and then put it all together to build an effective team.”

Kristen Rieger

Kristen Rieger has dedicated her entire professional career to the development and performance of individuals, teams and organizations.  For the past eight years Kristen worked as a management consultant in the area of Organization Effectiveness with Accenture Management Consulting firm.  This entailed supporting a variety of clients with efforts requiring change management, leadership development, needs assessment, organization alignment and design, journey management, process improvement and much more.  This experience also afforded her opportunity to work with globally respected clients from a variety of industries including government, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and higher education. Prior to Accenture, Kristen worked with a government agency, a government sponsored executive education program and as a clinical social worker for many years.

Kristen has the ability to work with individuals at all levels within an organization to simplify and streamline complex business challenges and drive innovative solutions.  Kristen is adept at quickly learning the client environment and creating new processes and systems, along with new capabilities and leadership behaviors necessary to realize sustainable organizational benefits. Kristen earned her Doctorate of Education from the University of Virginia.

Susan Soldini

Susan Soldini combines her management experience and education to find solutions for managers and employees to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the work place.   Susan has over 20 years of experience working in large corporations, the public sector, and small businesses. 

Susan is an Adjunct Instructor in the Business Administration department at Hudson Valley Community College where she has been teaching since 1999.  She enjoys lively discussions with students regarding challenges facing today’s corporations.  “Teaching Management classes at the college is always invigorating because students have such fresh ideas and great solutions for businesses.”

Susan earned her MBA from Fordham University with a concentration in Competitive Strategy. 

Glenn Cook

Glenn Cook consults with individual leaders and leadership teams to help them achieve their goals and enlarge their circle of influence within their community.  During Glenn’s 13 years of coaching he has worked successfully with young leaders, adult leaders and community leadership teams primary through his engagement with YoungLife, a worldwide youth ministry organization. 

Glenn is a gifted communicator, and has spoken before thousands of young people and adults.  He is a requested speaker for multi-week engagements at various YoungLife properties.  Glenn’s passion is to help people find their God-given purpose in life and set them free to pursue it.

Barbara Beck

Barbara Beck is an experienced leader and executive coach with nearly 25 years experience working in all areas of the human resources field.

Barbara is currently the Chief Human Resource Officer at Skidmore College where she has held this position for over ten years.  Prior to this, she held various human resource leadership roles in various industries, including: Corporate (GE R&D), Academic (Skidmore College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Manufacturing (GE Silicones), Banking (Signet Bank), and Hospital (University of Maryland & at Enoch Pratt Psychiatric).

Barbara has consulted and facilitated in the areas of: Change Management, Team Building, Consensus Building, Leadership Development, Project Planning, and Conflict Resolution.

Additionally, Barbara has conducted training sessions and is asked to be a speaker in areas such as:  Effective Interviewing, Change Acceleration, Conducting Effective Performance Appraisals, Basic Facilitation, Effective Job Search Strategies, and numerous Leadership Development topics.

Barbara earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, and her Graduate degree in Psychology from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. 

Amy Lane-Grant