Rider Consulting Partners
Rider Consulting collaborates regularly with highly respected consultants across the spectrum. ME Rider has a reputation for convening the right team for the task at hand.
Joy Bentley, CPA: The Bentley Company
Ms. Bentley has 25+ years’ work with Alaskan non-profits. She has helped more than 200 entities improve financial management, internal controls and governance focusing on best practices recognized within the non-profit industry. She has served as interim CFO while working with management to find best candidate for the position. She has provided oversight & supervision for small accounting departments and added professional-level expertise for clients preparing for audits and 990 tax returns. She has developed and provided training to assist boards in understanding financial reporting and board fiduciary responsibilities.
Ms. Miller analyzes the Medicaid billing potential of services offered by behavioral health providers, and works with non-profit leadership to monitor their compliance with state regulations. She consults in several states around the U.S.
Ms. Jones' experience includes human resources management and strategy, business development & organizational management, EDI audits and surveying, training and facilitation, leadership and people development, and public relations and marketing. A leader in social change, with a focus on where care for our most vulnerable populations meets advocacy for equality and justice. A diversity, equity and inclusion expert, business development and human resources strategist who regularly consults with non-profits, businesses, and political and social movements around the U.S. to improve their climate for their organizations and all that they serve.
Barbara L. Bigelow, MS, LNHA: Bigelow Community Consulting
Ms Bigelow offers facilitation of complex healthcare system issues. She is a Critical Access Hospital Chief Executive Officer and LTC Administrator. Committed to embracing a deeply caring, patient/resident focused organizational culture delivering high quality care. Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Alaska and Arizona with extensive long-term care (LTC) experience and expertise. Professional knowledge of TJC, CMS, HRSA, FQHC, OSHA and related healthcare requirements of participation, state and federal regulation.
Joel Neimeyer, PE: Neimeyer Consulting
Mr. Neimeyer (USPHS Commander, ret.) began consulting following a career as the engineer responsible for developing and managing a significant portion of Alaska’s health and social services facility infrastructure. Joel has crafted braided funding streams, developed funding programs, and managed construction and the budgets for construction for well over 400 projects in Alaska and Washington. He has been serving non-profits, tribes and municipal governments since 1985.
Rain Van Den Berg facilitates program implementation: teamwork to achieve action, and complex processes. She has extensive experience working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams in educational, governmental, medical, & community settings. She specializes in project management; process improvement; curriculum and training development; evidence-based training and facilitation; and tech-savvy accessible design. Her projects incorporate cultural stakeholder and lived experience.
John Conway, BCSM: Conway Management Group
Mr. Conway, a construction engineer, acts as owner's agent from concept through construction for organizations in the Pacific Northwest. He has 32+ years’ experience in project management and construction. John is known for his calm, thoughtful leadership, diverse experience, and team-building skills. He has strong long-term relationships with design, engineering, and construction firms. He has relationships in the non-profit sector for planning & organizing capital projects for new construction, renovation, facility evaluation, and pre-development.
Doug Cobb, PMP: Conway Management Group
Mr. Cobb has been working 20+ years in construction & project management services to public & private sector clients. As a project manager, he has served clients from multiple perspectives; as an owner’s representative, architect’s representative, subcontractor & general contractor offering an understanding & appreciation of multiple stakeholders.
Mr. Truog is an accountant serving Alaska Native Corporations and non-profits. His interests are process risk assessment, interim CFO, and controller. He is skilled with data analytics, sharing complex information graphically & on interactive visual analysis dashboards using client data systems
Fred Traber, BBA
Mr. Traber has extensive experience in business process review and turnaround management in rural and urban Alaska. His focus is on effective coaching and inclusion. He has broad-based experience with process and change management in local government, Alaska Native and non-profit corporations. A skilled interim CEO, he sits on two non-profit boards of directors and has been the board chair for several others.
Ms. Schue offers facilitation, grantwriting, and a forest-for-the-trees view for non-profits and tribal organizations.
Laura Johnston, RN
Ms. Johnston is an Electronic Health Records expert with over a decade of national and international experience identifying and addressing electronic health record system issues for complex health organizations.
