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Focused Growth for Focused Leaders

Senior Living is a rapidly changing environment—and effective leadership is the key to guiding teams, driving innovation, and improving resident satisfaction and patient outcomes. AALNA has partnered with two organizations with extensive backgrounds in Senior Living. Their Healthcare Leadership Coaching programs are designed exclusively for healthcare professionals who are ready to grow their influence, strengthen their leadership skills, and lead with confidence.

Why Healthcare Leadership Coaching?

  • Navigate Complexity: Gain tools to lead through change, uncertainty, and high-pressure environments.
  • Empower Teams: Learn strategies to build resilient, engaged, and collaborative teams.
  • Improve Outcomes: Strengthen decision-making and communication to positively impact resident/family satisfaction and patient care.
  • Sustain Your Leadership: Develop resilience, emotional intelligence, and balance to thrive long-term.

Who Should Participate?

  • Associates transitioning into leadership roles
  • Existing Senior Care leaders seeking to sharpen their skills
  • Executives and administrators ready to broaden their impact

AALNA Coaching Partners

ABOUT ASPIRE FOR MORE WITH ERIN (Coaching and Leadership Development)

You’re a first- to third-year leader who refuses to let fires define your day. You want to be the steady voice families trust, the coach your team follows, and the kind of Executive Director whose community fills because the culture works. The problem? Chaos, mixed messages, and no clear playbook. Aspire for More with Erin steps in as your guide and gives you one: simple, stewardship-driven systems that turn confusion into clarity, daily stand ups, alignment cadences, post tour prompts, debriefs.

G.R.O.W. (mindset)

L.E.A.D. (method), and

R.I.S.E. (motion)

will help you stop managing tasks and start leading change.

The result is an identity shift: you lead calmly, communicate clearly, empower your team. Watch trust and occupancy develop as the natural byproducts of who you’re becoming.

Coaching Vision:

100% occupancy develops into a byproduct of who you are becoming.

Growth fuels who you are (G.R.O.W.), guides how you lead (L.E.A.D.), and powers the movement you build (R.I.S.E.).

Program Benefits:

Executive coaching focused on confidence, clarity, and decision-making
Cohort mentoring with plug-and-play leadership tools
ED ↔ Sales alignment and values-based, readiness-focused selling
Practical systems for communication, conflict, and accountability (R.I.S.E. Feedback, Emotional Bank Account)
Energy and boundaries coaching to prevent burnout and model sustainable leadership

Signature Programs & Group Trainings Offered:

The 100% Leader™ Accelerator (8-week cohort The Mentoring Company powered by Aspire for More with Erin and Trestle Hospitality): Identity, systems, and rhythms that turn trust into results.

The New ED’s Playbook (course/workshop): a 5.25 NAB CEU Course for any senior living leader wanting a fresh and relevant perspective on operations and creating a culture that sells.

Power of Influence (keynote or lab): From control to stewardship; build a culture that sells.

Delivery Formats:

1:1 executive coaching • Small-group cohorts • Private company cohorts • Virtual or on-site • Toolkits, scripts, and leadership equipping

For Consult or Scheduling:

Contact Erin Thompson – erinthompson@aspireformorewitherin.com
AALNA member discounts available (see Pricing section).

ABOUT SHAD LEE COACHING

Founded in 2018, Shad Lee Coaching offers a variety of services for individuals and organizations. With 30 years of leadership experience in Healthcare and Senior Living, Shad has multi year experience into what makes successful leadership in Senior Living. The purpose of Shad Lee Coaching is to assist emerging and ascending leaders with improving their leadership abilities, defining their values, tools, and skills so that they become a positive contributor to their career, family and existence.

Mission Statement:

To provide a variety of education, coaching and training programs for organizations and their employees designed to enhance each associate’s life through values, balance, goals, and personal living skills. These skills help associates to find greater meaning in life and work wherein they lend themselves to greater efficiency, loyalty, and retention.

Program Benefits:

Personalized one-on-one coaching tailored to your goals
Focused education programs on Leadership and Communication topics
Group coaching for team development and training
Confidential support and accountability from experienced coaches
Tools to boost influence, resilience, and effectiveness

Group Trainings Offered:

  • Leadership vs Management – A key in transformation in your Workplace
  • Communication and Trust – Concepts and Tool for building effectiveness as a Leader
  • Prioritization – The practice of getting things done
  • Setting Boundaries – How to Establish them and what to say … for your own good.
  • Having a Difficult Conversation – You go second…
  • Conflict Resolution – Understanding and Managing effective Conflict
  • Building a Team from Strengths – A systematic approach for success
  • Life Balance – Make your Wheel Roll
  • Leadership Bootcamp – A six-month course, with six selected group classes from above and additional group coaching calls each month

For Consult or Scheduling:

Emai: Shad@coachshad.com or call 303-514-1599

Pricing

AALNA offers discounted rates for members on individual and group coaching activities, with pricing based on 60-minute coaching sessions. Discounted packages are also available for multiple sessions or participants.

Individual and Group pricing at a 20% discount for AALNA Members:

Individual coaching sessions: $200 per session

Group coaching sessions (up to 12 participants): $400 per session

Invest in Yourself. Invest in your Leaders. Invest in the future of Senior Living.

When Senior Living leaders grow, entire organizations—and the residents whom they serve benefit.

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