Leadership: Answering the Call for Liberty
Nancy Fox
Thursday, August 3
1:15pm-2:45pm

The institutional model of care has led us to a certain way of seeing ourselves and the world we attempt to manage. It has taught us to believe we are in control, when in fact, we are restrained by the same top-down hierarchy and punitive system of governance that inhibits our Elders and their care partners. If we are to free our Elders and their care partners from this broken system, we must first free ourselves. Leadership is the key that will unlock the chains that bind us. In this session, Nancy Fox, the executive director of The Eden Alternative, and a nursing home administrator who has lived the culture change journey, will share leadership stories and pathways from her new book on culture change leadership to support you in this most important personal transformation.

Sustainable Leadership in a Person-Directed Model
Lori Gorgski & Sue Delvecchio
Thursday, August 3
3:15pm-4:45pm

Empowerment is often misunderstood cornerstone of culture change. At Teresian House empowerment is the key to sustaining leadership throughout the organization. Resident Care Coordinators and an Administrative Steering Committee work in tandem to mentor teams in neighborhoods. New emphasis on leadership training and education has produced staff stability, team work and succession planning in Teresian House’s person directed community. Staff with neighborhood leadership responsibilities will present on the systems, structures, events and decision making processes that have produced an advanced level of culture change in a person directed model at Teresian House. Learn how to practically ensure sustainability in your organization when the leader or champion of culture change leaves

Becoming Less Powerful:
Leadership in the New Culture
Bill Keane & Wendy Lustbader
Friday, August 4
8:00am-9:30am

This session will focus on the essential skills of meaningful and sustainable cultural transformation, namely ethical leadership and an organizational structure that places power and control as close to the elder as possible. Attendees will explore how such leadership principles can be applied in practice throughout organizations across the long-term care spectrum. Participants will come away with concrete ideas and tools for how to gain influence by relinquishing top-down power.

In Pursuit of the Sunbeam
Steve Shields & LaVrene Norton
Friday, August 4
11:00am-12:30pm

This session will explore the leadership skills that are needed in all positions within an organization in order to create a resident-directed lifestyle -- one that is achieved in partnership with self-led caregiver teams in a household community derived through personal, organizational and physical plant transformation. This session will focus on developing the skills necessary for making resource-bearing, values-driven leadership a day-to-day reality.

Let the Risk Taking Begin
John George
Friday, August 4
2:00pm-3:30pm

Risk taking is a natural part of everyday life for elders, and for leaders at all levels of a long-term care organization. In this session John George, the administrator who participated in the PBS documentary Almost Home, will explore how risk taking gets woven into a tranformational change process. Additional film footage not aired as part of the Almost Home documentary will be shown to stimulate dicussions about risk as applied to person-directed principles for elders and staff. Discussion will also highlight how George's nursing home survived the current state-survey process in the midst of moving forward with culture change.

The Business Case is Built
Jeff Jerebker
Friday, August 4
2:00pm-3:30pm

Providing a high quality of life for residents and staff makes good business sense, and so understanding the return on investment for person-directed care is critical for an organization and its leadership. This session by Jeff Jerebker, President of Pinon Management, will examine the issue in detail, as well as provide tools and strategies for communicating the business case to internal and external stakeholders.