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Argentum’s Women in Leadership initiative, first announced in October 2018, is designed to celebrate the contributions women have made to the senior living industry and to create a pathway to the future by forming opportunities for more women to attain leadership and executive-level positions.
At this moment, senior living is uniquely positioned to cultivate its majority-female workforce with targeted recruitment; clear equity and inclusion policies; and a culture that welcomes, celebrates, and supports women at all levels.”
The senior living workforce is overwhelmingly female; women account for 4 out of 5 of the industry’s employees. Women also account for nearly 70% of those holding management jobs overall. This contrasts with the total U.S. labor force, where women hold 56% of all management jobs.
At the CEO level, the industry is on par with national ratios—17.5% of CEOs at the largest 115 senior living provider companies are women, while across the U.S., the number of female CEOs sits at 16%.
Many women have served as founding industry pioneers and have risen to C-Suite positions in senior living, but the industry can do better. Through the Women in Leadership initiative, Argentum is leveraging the compelling evidence for why greater gender diversity is needed and addressing the issue on an industry-wide level.
Shaping the initiative’s mission and vision, a new Women in Leadership steering committee has convened, comprised of two dozen women pioneers and leaders in the industry.
The Path ForwardThe Women in Leadership steering committee has developed four pillars that will focus on education, support, celebration, and measurement in order to reach the goals of creating and sustaining a supportive community of current and future leaders; growing the industry’s female workforce; increasing the number of women recruited and promoted to executive leadership and board positions; and promoting the senior living industry overall.
A roadmap to success for the Women in Leadership initiative is available in Argentum’s new white paper, The Path Forward: Impacting the Future of Women in Senior Living, that details the critical need for this initiative.
ISELIN, N.J.—SmartLinx Solutions, a leading provider of workforce management solutions, today announced the appointment of Dana Córdova as vice president of demand generation. In her new role, Córdova is responsible for driving demand for SmartLinx solutions by helping to increase brand awareness and customer acquisition to cultivate long-term relationships within the post-acute care and senior…
CHARLESTON, S.C.—Harmony Senior Services has announced Gloria M. Holland as chief financial officer. Holland is an experienced leader and executive in the senior living industry, spending over 16 years with Capital Senior Living Corporation, in Dallas, one of the nation’s largest operators of independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities for senior adults. As vice…
GRAPEVINE, Texas—J&M Family Management, LLC, a family-owned business with a passion for senior care spanning nearly two decades and the operator of Autumn Leaves®, a national leader in standalone residential memory care, announces the hiring of Mandi Grimes to the position of vice president of sales and marketing. As a nearly 15-year veteran of the…
GAINESVILLE, Va.—Retirement Unlimited, Inc. (RUI), a Virginia family-owned and operated senior living community management company established in 1984, has named Amanda Waggy and Alissa Schroeder as senior directors of sales and business development for the northern Virginia region. As part of RUI’s growth strategy, Doris-Ellie Sullivan, president, has expanded the sales team to accommodate the…
SKOKIE, Ill.—Covenant Living Communities and Services, a non-profit faith-based senior living organization headquartered in Skokie, announces the appointments to its leadership team of Jeannie Justie as chief financial officer and Amy LaCroix as senior vice president/community operations. Jeannie Justie comes to Covenant Living with more than 20 years’ experience in health care finance, most recently…
Lily Zheng is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion consultant and executive coach who works with organizations around the world to create high-impact and sustainable change. With her clients, she leverages organizational design, strategy, and culture to find novel solutions to systemic inequalities. A dedicated change-maker and advocate recently named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, Lily writes…
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Senior living communication platform OdessaConnect (previously myFamilyChannel) has named Jessica Heck, former chief strategy officer of Blake Management Group, as chief business development officer. Heck began her role nearly a month ago, and her first initiative was to lead the rebranding of the company to better reflect all of the solutions OdessaConnect provides. OdessaConnect…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Lorie Dancy has been promoted to chief wellness and compliance officer at Solvere Living, a management operations senior living company, and part of Solutions Advisors Group. Dancy is a nurse practitioner with over 30 years nursing experience and over 20 years’ experience in the senior living industry. In her new position, Dancy will…
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