Our Team

Our expert team offers curated insights and targeted strategic guidance across multiple disciplines, acting as a seamless extension of your senior management team.

Tim Bateman

Managing Director
Core Strategies: Growth, Efficiency

Latest Research:

  • 7 Keys to Back Office Advantage

Research Highlights:

  • How non-profit providers are scaling through affiliations to compete upstream
  • How home-based healthcare can tailor its offerings to M&A
  • How CEOs are embracing the “scale-to-innovate” imperative

Impact:

  • Brings a sharp, systems-level perspective that helps leaders unlock strategic advantage through operational excellence, smart scale and innovation readiness

About Tim:

  • Tim has spent the past 20 years cultivating trusted advisor status across a variety of sectors, with a focus on healthcare. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He’s a New Hapshire resident and aspires to ski and golf nine holes in the same day every year.

Sarah Fried

Managing Director
Core Strategies: Growth

Sarah brings more than 20 years of experience building partnerships, driving growth, and leading strategic initiatives for mission-driven healthcare organizations. She's partnered closely with CEOs and executive teams to create opportunities that strengthen organizations to advance their missions, and has held senior leadership roles at nationally recognized organizations including the Alzheimer’s Association, National MS Society and American Diabetes Association. Sarah earned her BA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and resides in Chicago with her husband and two teenagers. Outside of work, she enjoys cheering on her son on the lacrosse field and her daughter at dance competitions.

Michelle Dodd

Associate Managing Director
Core Strategies: Efficiency, Technology

Michelle contributes research and develops original content in support of Home Care 100's education program, with particular emphasis on innovation and operational efficiency.

Michelle served as primary caregiver to aging relatives prior to joining Lincoln. This firsthand experience was just as educational as her BA from Colgate University and MBA coursework at NYU Stern School of Business.

Betsy Hansen

Lead Advisor
Core Strategies: Tech, Innovation

Research Highlights:

  • Initiated a project to explore the future EMR requirements of home care providers, determining that a high degree of integration and interoperability should be prioritized.
  • Deep knowledge of the technology partner community and recognition of the industry’s most valuable emerging innovators.

Impact:

  • The ability to pinpoint providers’ tech priorities and offer advice that informs successful buying decisions.

About Betsy:

  • 10 years of experience in consumer-based digital health strategy, advising healthcare organizations on enhancing patient care by leveraging technology. BA from Emory and MHSA from University of Michigan. When she wasn’t exercising her brain, she used her muscles to play college softball and even competed in the College World Series.

Jeanette Lynn

President, Lincoln Healthcare Leadership
Core Strategies: Growth, Efficiency

Jeanette brings a cross-sector vantage point of where healthcare is headed and the capabilities needed to get there. Her focus is on growth strategies, including enabling workforce, running a more efficient business, delivering better outcomes, and leveraging new technology or business models.

In prior roles, Jeanette lead healthcare, corporate, and philanthropy, advocacy, and education efforts at the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. Her honors BS degree was earned at the G.R. Herberger College of Business at St Cloud State University.