Meet Erin Shadbolt, CEO of Ascension Living. Shadbolt joined Ascension in 2022 and held roles including Chief Nursing Officer of Post-Acute and At-Home Services and…
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Meet Ken Young, president and CEO of United Church Homes (UCH) — a faith-based non-profit senior living provider based in Ohio with more than 90…
Meet Joe Jedlowski, founder, chairman and CEO of New Jersey-based Distinctive Healthcare, a senior living development, management and services company that operates 46 senior housing…
Meet Jon Fletcher, president and CEO of Presbyterian Homes & Services (PHS). Fletcher has been at the helm of the 70-year-old organization since February 2025,…
Meet Glen Lewis, CEO of RoseVilla, a single-site continuing care retirement community located in Portland, Oregon. The community, which was founded in 1960, prides itself…
Meet Doug Schiffer, president and CEO of Allegro Living — a St. Louis- and Orlando-based senior living operator spanning 53 communities and 8 brands, primarily…
Brightview Senior Living President and CEO Doug Dollenberg, Jr. believes change is inevitable — and necessary. Dollenberg, who took the reins last year after previous…
Radiant Chief Operatinging Officer and Co-Owner Jodi Guffee is proud of her time in the senior living industry, even though she has in the past…
Commonwealth Senior Living CEO Earl Parker joined the industry almost three decades ago. Needless to say, he’s seen a lot of change in that time.…
Rod Burkett, is the Chairman of Gardant Management Solutions, an Illinois-based senior living provider. Gardant is the 25th largest senior living operator in the country…
The baby boomers are coming, and Trilogy CEO Leigh Ann Barney is focused on how best to serve them. Change is at the center of…
In the early days of 2018, Sarabeth Hanson made the jump from Chief Financial Officer to CEO of Harbor Retirement Associates, a senior living operator…
Dan Madsen is the chairman and CEO of Leisure Care, a senior living operator that has in recent years refocused its paradigm of aging and…
Doris-Ellie Sullivan is President of Retirement Unlimited, Inc., a senior living operator with a 21-community portfolio in Virginia and Florida. She came to the senior…
Sevy Petras, is the CEO of Priority Life Care, an Indiana-based senior living provider offering IL, AL and MC services with an emphasis on finding…
Marc Vorkapich was volunteering in residential care in 1991, when an older woman he “adored” told him: “All of my life I have been the…
Over the course of a decade, John Cochrane has led the creation of HumanGood, earning the status of changemaker by cementing the organization’s status as…
Being unsatisfied can sound negative, but Discovery Senior Living CEO Richard Hutchinson doesn’t see it that way. Being unsatisfied with the status quo drives him…
Silverado Co-Founder and CEO Loren Shook has lived the story of change that prompted the development of a portfolio of standalone memory care communities across…
As a longtime leader in senior living — both for her company, Brandywine Living, and as a past board chairman for industry association Argentum —…