The Team

Operators who have already done this — at every scale.

The credibility of our model lives in the people behind it. Every member of the team has led a transformation before — in hospitals, in healthcare technology, or in rewriting how large organizations run.

Don Parker

Don Parker

Hospital Transformation
  • Took AtlantiCare Health System from struggling to highly profitable and Baldrige award-winning
  • Led Carrier behavioral health to national-leading outcomes and strong profitability
  • Cut behavioral-health ER costs by 75% with the nation's first behavioral-health urgent care
Todd Linden

Todd Linden

Rural Hospital Transformation
  • 24 years as President & CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center (Iowa)
  • Transformed it into one of the nation's most innovative rural health systems
  • National recognition for quality, patient safety, and community health models
Chris Dadlez

Chris Dadlez

Health System Leadership
  • President & CEO of Saint Francis Care and Trinity Health of New England
  • Led large, complex health systems through strategic expansion, operational improvement, and evolving care models
  • CEO of Proton Therapy Partners, expanding access to advanced cancer treatment
Michael McAndrew

Michael McAndrew

Hospital Transformation
  • Led hospital transformations from 50 to 750 beds
  • Drove early technology adoption to unlock new revenue and service growth
  • Improved access and affordability across diverse settings
Chris Paliani

Chris Paliani

Organizational Transformation
  • Unlocks opportunities to create more value for patients and clinicians
  • Simplifies processes to reduce errors, increase speed, and improve outcomes
  • Surfaces internal bright spots and breakthroughs that scale across the organization
Dick Daniels

Dick Daniels

IT Transformation
  • PeopleFirst approach focuses teams on the "how," not just the "what"
  • Consistently delivered IT transformations on time and under budget
  • Changed clinicians' view of IT from annoyance to enabling partner
Tony Burke

Tony Burke

Strategy and Solution Sourcing
  • CEO, Pivot Health Advisors
  • Led innovation, ventures and business development for 20+ years at American Hospital Association
  • Sourced more than 300 solutions to support the performance of health systems
Doug Kirkpatrick

Doug Kirkpatrick

Distributed Decision Making
  • Pioneered distributed decision-making to build The Morning Star Company
  • Helped scale it into the world's largest and most profitable tomato processor ($1B+ revenue)
  • Built frameworks where frontline workers lead $1M+ purchases independently
Michael Janniere

Michael Janniere

Governance & Workforce
  • Combines human-capital leadership, legal expertise, and healthcare insight to build workforce strategies that scale
  • Designs compensation, incentive, and governance structures that align leadership performance with organizational goals
  • Led human-capital integration through mergers and acquisitions, preserving talent value through transitions
Mickey Bensal

Mickey Bensal, MD

Clinical Quality & Informatics
  • Pediatric emergency physician and clinical informaticist with 20+ years advancing patient safety
  • Founded Diagnose Data, turning regulatory and operational data into real-time quality insight
  • Helps hospitals shift from retrospective reporting to proactively preventing harm
The Extended Team

Our extended team is a who's who of healthcare. We've spent years building a network of the people who have actually transformed hospitals — so when a moment calls for their insight, access is rarely the problem. We're usually already connected. Often, they're friends.

Working Together

These operators work alongside your team — not above it.

That's the difference between renting expertise and building capability.