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Bischoff Biosketch:
Dr. B.J. Bischoff is the owner of Bischoff Performance Improvement Consulting, a firm that is certified as an Indiana Women’s Business Enterprise. For 28 years, she has developed performance improvement strategies to impact organizational change. She is currently managing a Workplace Literacy Pilot initiative on behalf of the Indiana Health Industry Forum, funded by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. She is also assisting Golden Rule Insurance Company to adopt best-in-class practices for its new Learning and Development Center. She is working with the Executive Leadership of Butler University’s College of Business Administration to implement the Butler Business Accelerator, a five-year $22 million Lilly Endowment initiative designed to create strong academic-business linkages. She is also conducting an evaluation of Indiana’s career and technical education programs. Since 1999, Dr. Bischoff has provided cross cultural competence training and consulting services to Eli Lilly and Company. She serves on the Boards of the Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation and NPower Indiana. Dr. Bischoff is a Governor’s appointee to Indiana’s nine-member Workforce Proficiency Panel, responsible for establishing Certificates of Technical Achievement.
Dr. Bischoff has served as a site evaluator for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development’s (DWD) Career Majors initiative for three years. She developed grant proposals to improve education attainment in select Indiana counties, resulting in over $28 million in funding from the Lilly Endowment to five rural Indiana counties. She completed an evaluation of Indiana’s public education system with the National Association of State Boards of Education and the National Governors Association. She created and managed FaithWorks Indiana, one of the nation’s top-ranked faith-based initiatives. She managed Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson’s public outreach process for addressing the city’s combined sewer overflow problems and Indianapolis’ public health community assessment process. She managed a statewide assessment for the Indiana Arts Commission and a study examining the State of Philanthropic Giving in Northwest Indiana. She worked on the project team that transitioned the Muscatatuck State Development Center from the State of Indiana to another entity. She led projects with the Indiana Department of Transportation to improve local government services and with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to improve implementation of the Workforce Investment Act. She was a Governor’s appointee to Indiana’s statewide Human Resource Investment Council/Workforce Investment Board for ten years.
From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Bischoff established the government consulting practice for Crowe Chizek, the eighth largest accounting and management consulting firm in the U.S. She owned White River Training & Consulting, Inc. from 1990 to 1999, enabling her to provide training services to developing nations and emerging economies, funded by The World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Her international work has taken her to 25 countries on projects including conducting Gender Equity in the Classroom research, training, and consultation for the Moroccan Ministry of Education. In her previous academic career, she served as the Director of Ball State University's Center for Entrepreneurial Resources, the Manager of Extended Services for Ivy Tech Community College, and the Associate Director for Credit Programs in Continuing Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.
Dr. Bischoff earned her Doctorate in Higher Education Administration, her Master of Science degree in College Student Personnel Administration, and her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Theatre from Indiana University-Bloomington.
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