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Residential Assisted Living
October 9 – 11, 2020
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A massive wave of seniors is coming and their influence in every demographic shift is undeniable.
Many of today’s Baby Boomers are facing the reality that their parents need assistance in their current and future care.
Not ready for a nursing home, yet unable to stay home alone, Residential Assisted Living is the best alternative for millions of seniors.
As the Boomers continue to get older and live longer, the need for senior housing and assisted living is only going to grow. The opportunity this provides for entrepreneurs, lenders, investors, equipment suppliers and support service providers is growing by the day and you do not want to be left behind.
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Kevin Harrington
Kevin Harrington is an original “shark” from the hit TV show, Shark Tank, and has been a successful entrepreneur for more than forty years. He’s the co-founding board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and co-founder of the Electronic Retailing Association. He also invented the infomercial. He helped make “But wait… There’s more!” part of our cultural history.
He’s one of the pioneers behind the As Seen on TV brand, has heard more than 50,000 pitches, and launched more than 500 products generating more than $5 Billion in global sales. Twenty of his companies have generated more than $100 million in revenue each. He’s also the founder of the Secrets of Closing the Sale Master Class inspired by the master of sales—Zig Ziglar. He’s the author of several bestselling books including Act Now: How I Turn Ideas into Million Dollar Products, Key Person of Influence, and Put a Shark in Your Tank.
Dr. Dale Bredesen
An internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms or neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea: that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable, but reversible. Thanks to a dedicated pursuit of finding the science that makes this a reality, this idea has placed Dr. Bredesen at the vanguard of neurological research and led to the discoveries that today underlie the ReCODE Report.
Dr. Bredesen earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center and served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Fransisco (UCSF), before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA, and the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bredesen also directed the Program of Aging at the Burnham Institute before joining the Buck Institute in 1998 as founding President and CEO.
Dr. Bredesen’s research explores previously uncharted territory in explaining the physical mechanism behind the erosion of memory seen in Alzheimer’s disease, and has opened the door to new approaches to treatment. This work has led to the identification of several new therapeutic processes that are showing remarkable early results. Dr. Bredesen is a prodigious innovator of medicine, with over thirty patients to his name. Notably, he put much of his findings and research into the 2017 New York Times’ Best-Seller, The End of Alzheimer’s.
Entertainer
Craig Anthony
Are you ready to have your thoughts read in this amazing entertaining show?
Craig Anthony has been performing for over 20 years and is a professional mentalist. He uses his skills in persuasion, psychology, and reading body language to HACK into your mind, influence your thoughts, and predict what you will do before you even do it! His work was featured on over 20 TV shows last year alone.
2020 Keynote speakers
Meet Gene Guarino
Gene has over 30 years experience in real estate investing and business and now is focused on just one thing… investing in the mega-trend of senior assisted housing. Having trained tens of thousands of investor/entrepreneurs over the past 25 years, he now specializes in helping others take advantage of this mega-trend opportunity.
Gene Guarino
Convention Host
Founder — Residential Assisted Living Academy
Meet Gene Guarino
Dr. Bredesen is internationally recognized as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. He graduated from Caltech, then earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.
Dr. Dale Bredesen
International Medical Expert
Author of “The End of Alzheimer’s”
Meet Jack York
Kevin Harrington has been a successful entrepreneur for over 40 years. He’s an original “Shark” on the Emmy-winning TV show, Shark Tank. He is also the Inventor of the Infomercial, As Seen On TV Pioneer, Co-Founder of the Electronic Retailers Association (ERA) and Co-Founding board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).
Kevin Harrington
Original Shark — “Shark Tank”
Serial Entrepreneur
2020 speakers
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Meet Jack York
Jack York is co-founder of It’s Never 2 Late (iN2L), a company dedicated to helping older adults realize the full benefits of adaptive technology.
Originally, Jack did not envision iN2L as a business; the impetus for what became the company was a philanthropic idea—to donate computers to assisted living communities and nursing homes in Southern California. With a 15-year background in the Silicon Valley, he saw a vast potential in fostering these connections, but also saw that conventional technology was too difficult for virtually all residents to use in a meaningful way. As a result, in 1999, Jack retired as VP of Strategic Sales for Vishay Intertechnology and started what has become a successful gerontechnology company.
He is a sought after national and international speaker on technology being used to create personalized experiences that engage and connect residents to their loved ones and the world specifically individuals with dementia.
Jack York
President/Co-Founder
It’s Never 2 Late
Meet Michelle Pinkowski
Michelle is an attorney focusing on construction, land use, and matters related to residential assisted living facilities. A former trial lawyer, Michelle brings experience in risk assessment and management, as well as advocacy at the regulatory level for licensing and zoning.
Michelle offers specialized legal assistance and market analyses for assisted living businesses and investors across the nation. Michelle and Brian have been recognized with the Industry Innovators Award by the Residential Assisted Living Academy in 2018.
Michelle has represented developers, owners, and construction managers in matters related to construction defects, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and insurance coverage. On the policy level, Michelle has helped governments develop policy and implement reforms in construction permitting, land use, informal construction, and housing. She is called upon by the United States government as a special
consultant for construction issues.
Michelle has founded and operated legal and consulting businesses, as well as an NGO.
As a RALSTM (Residential Assisted Living Specialist), Michelle has earned the highest level of professional certification in the industry. She is also a Certified Assisted Living Administrator and she is licensed to practice law in Colorado.
Michelle Pinkowski
Pinkowski Law
Meet Max Keller
Max’s relationship with his grandmother inspired his mission, which is to assist as many seniors and their families as possible. Max was able to help his Grandma with her home challenges; however, not everyone has the type of support system in place that he was able to provide.
Max earned his B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and his M.A. in Teaching from Louisiana College. He has over 15 years of experience in real estate, finance, and teaching. A few of his current roles are consultant, publisher, teacher, author, speaker, and expert panelist.
Max created Savior Home Buyers as a way to serve his community and help seniors with their real estate challenges, whereas Savior Publishing House helps local experts attract seniors to their businesses through authorship and education.
The Savior brand of companies focuses on providing Christian real estate and business solutions to clients. Max enjoys spending time with his wife and children and engaging in family activities, such as being involved at church and going on vacation. He is passionate about investing time in his family.
Max Keller
President
Savior Publishing House
Meet Jill Vitale-Ausse
Jill Vitale-Aussem serves as President & CEO of The Eden Alternative, an international non-profit focused on creating a world that celebrates aging and human potential. In 2019, The Eden Alternative impacted the lives of 111,000 people in nineteen countries.
Prior to joining The Eden Alternative, Jill spent twenty years leading nursing homes, assisted living and life plan communities. She is a licensed nursing home administrator and a Reframing Aging facilitator.
Jill is the author of Disrupting the Status Quo of Senior Living: A Mindshift and speaks internationally on topics including ageism, leadership and culture change.
Jill vitale-Ausse
President
Eden Alternative
Meet Sandra Scott
A former VPSM for three primary market CCRCs, Sandra was responsible for generating over $52 million in annual sales and successfully marketed a $42 million expansion two years prior to opening resulting in 92% presales.
A twenty-year marketing and sales veteran, Sandra has a unique ability to relate to and inspire senior living professionals. She is an inspiring coach who trains owner operators and senior living teams to sell effectively through a strategic approach to marketing and business development. An innovative, forward thinking marketer, her belief is that every marketing dollar spent by her clients must be traced to an ROI.
Sandra Scott
President
Scott Marketing and Consulting
Meet William Young
William Young is the Founder and President of the RCFE Association, an organization through which he actualizes his goal of inspiring innovative
solutions and best practices among residential care facilities for the elderly. He is also the Founder of Senior Living Savvy, a senior living consulting firm. Subsequently, he established his geriatric care management firm, Elder Care Wise. A Licensed RCFE Administrator for over a decade, he has worked for four of Americas largest Assisted Living and Memory Care companies in a range of capacities, from caregiving to sales and marketing directing for established and start-up communities, sales trainer/specialist and executive director. Honing his skills at his previous jobs, his passion, entrepreneurism
and innovation spurred him to establish his own Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE). William is the proud Owner and Administrator of Forever Young Memory Care, California’s #1 rated residential care home.
William Young
President
RCFE Association
Meet John Grove
John Grove is the co-founder of Instant Nurse and a healthcare entrepreneur with a passion for senior living. Instant Nurse was born after spending an entire year speaking with hundreds of residential assisted living owners and their staff. It has quickly become the leading scheduling software platform for residential assisted living homes because of its simple, yet powerful interface and ability to solve common problems faced by all senior care facilities, including creating and managing staff schedules, taming out of control overtime costs, and improving team communication and morale.
John Grove
Co-founder
Instant Nurse
Meet Gary Harper
GaryHarper is the owner of Sharper Business Solutions. Gary spent 16 years as an executive in a Fortune 500 company where he handled the process of evaluating companies operation expenses and helped them to reach new levels of efficiencies. He began investing in real estate in 2004 and has taken his expertise in business systems and process management and developed a program to help real estate investors position themselves to scale their business to new levels.
Gary Harper
Sharper Business
Solutions
Meet Brian Pinkowski
Brian J. Pinkowski is the President of the Residential Assisted Living National Association. He is also a commercial law attorney and environmental engineer with experience in the field of public health and the environment. He focuses on handling matters related to business formation and operation and has advised companies internationally at all stages of development.
Brian also offers specialized legal assistance and market analyses for assisted living businesses and investors across the nation. Michelle and Brian have been recognized with the Industry Innovators Award by the Residential Assisted Living Academy in 2018.
Brian is an experienced project manager and has negotiated with over 400 cities across the U.S. and managed projects worth over $800 million. He is the recipient of the Vice President’s Award for Reinventing Government for his ability to bring groups together to accomplish mutually beneficial community solutions. Brian has provided consulting for the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany and Japan and is skilled in handling legal and regulatory issues.
Brian has served on the board of the Lutheran Medical Center Community Foundation responsible for funding and managing hospice facilities and the Lutheran Medical Center Properties in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He has also served on the Board of the Colorado Foundation for Public Health and Environment and on the Board of the Rocky Mountain Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership.
As a RALSTM (Residential Assisted Living Specialist), Brian has earned the highest level of professional certification in the industry. He is also a Certified Assisted Living Administrator and he is licensed to practice law in Colorado.
Brian Pinkowski
Pinkowski Law
Meet Toby Mathis
Toby Mathis is an attorney on a mission to help investors
and business owners keep and grow more. A founding
partner of Anderson Law Group, Toby helped Anderson
grow its practice from one of business and estate planning
to a thriving tax practice and registered agent service
with tens of thousands of clients nationwide. In addition to advising clients and investing in his own real estate projects throughout the United States, Toby is a member of the Forbes Real Estate and Finance Council and author of several books, including first, second, third, and soon to be fouth editions of Tax-Wise Business Ownership and 12 Steps to Running a Successful Business. Toby teaches extensively throughout the US to groups of investors and professionals, with many of his courses certified for continuing education credit for legal, accounting and real estate professionals. He teaches a popular bi-weekly webinar entitled Tax Tuesday,
where business owners and investors can ask any tax
question and get answers LIVE on-air.
Toby Mathis
Attorney and Founding Partner
Anderson Advisors
Meet Jennifer Schwab
Jennifer Schwab has been with Morris & Garritano since 1989 and has worked exclusively in the Residential Care and Social Services industry for over 19 years. She brings experience in personalized account service and excels in customer relations.
Jennifer Schwab
Residential Care & Social Services Risk Advisor
Morris & Garritano
Meet Steve Clark
Mr. Clark’s consulting firms have been providing extensive due diligence and risk management services to both the commercial and private lending industries nationwide for the past twenty-two years. The firm’s menu of oversight and risk management services include site selection assistance, professional service vetting, general and subcontractor vetting services, construction contract review, construction budget development and analysis, progress site meeting creation & attendance, payment application & construction loan progress inspections, and a subscription service for their owner representation/oversight services.
Mr. Clark has successfully received licensing in the State of California as both a general engineering contractor (“A”) and a general building contractor (“B”) as well as his certification as a Certified Document Technologist (CDT) and a Residential Assisted Living Developer. He also holds several construction industry certifications from such organizations as the Residential Assisted Living National Association (RALNA), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), Risk Management Association, Construction Specifications Institute, the American Construction Inspection Association, OSHA, and the National Association of Construction Inspectors.
Steve Clark
Owner Builder Advisors
Meet Ashish Warudkar
Ashish Warudkar is trained as a Mechanical Engineer(IIT) with a specialization in Complex Systems(MIT) and Disruptive Innovation(Harvard).
He has worked in the software industry for 35 years including 19 years in the healthcare sector. He has been an entrepreneur for over two decades in marketing and provides consultation to “Golden Springs Ranch” which is an upcoming InfeXBloc™ home in Palmdale, California which will introduce these innovations.
Ashish Warudkar
Owner/CEO
InfeXBlock
Meet Tom Olson
Founder & CEO, Good Success & The Olson Group Network.
Tom Olson is the founder and CEO of Good Success and the Olson Group Network. He is the author of multiple popular books for investors, including The 30-Day Good Success Journey, Active Turnkey: The Best Way to Buy Rentals, and Investors vs. Contractors. Tom hosts The Good Success Podcast, a popular podcast for investors and entrepreneurs dedicated to achieving lasting financial success as well as true personal and professional fulfillment, including building lasting legacies for their families and broader communities, through their investing and their businesses.
Since its founding, Good Success has expanded to include the Good Success Mastermind and the Good Success Community Go-Giver event series. Both events focus on entrepreneurial and investor success from every angle, including generating high returns and achieving truly meaningful, lasting, Good Success.
Good Success nurtures every angle of the truly fulfilled investor and entrepreneur by constantly refining and evaluating their vision, holding them accountable for both positive and negative actions, and providing ongoing support and opportunities for growth. Good Success offers mastermind memberships involving higher levels of conversation with a trusted board of advisors to help you “move the needle” on your returns as well as its Community Go-Giver event series, which focuses on helping investors build up communities around them. The focal point of the Community Go-Giver series is Tom’s passion project, Flipping Gary, which revolves around his personal and professional mission to literally fix-and-flip the town of Gary, Indiana. Gary remains full of untapped potential due to its location literally at the transportation and shipping crossroads of the country but has, until recently, languished as the U.S. steel industry struggled to compete with international interests.
Learn more about Tom and Good Success at GoodSuccess.com.
Tom Olson
Good Success
Meet Dora Valentin
Dora Valentin, co-founder, has extensive experience in managing residential facilities. She gained her experience from California, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada. She is passionate about ensuring that her residents feel safe, happy, and healthy. In 2017, she won Best HIRC Home of the Year, from her local association. She is now, along with her business partner, bringing an innovative documentation tool to the long-term care industry, which gathers her direct experience and research into one robust intuitive tool.
Besides creating DocuWhiz, Dora manages the day to day operations of Ace Care Home and serves as a Residential Facility Administrator to a few others. She is an active member of several Nevadan associations and was invited to the board of the Assisted Living Advisory Committee.
Dora Valentin
Owner/CEO
DocuWhiz
Meet Jarrod Cordle
With a strong insurance background and desire to help others, Jarrod Cordle dedicates his customer-focused skills and services to facilitate the best options for your Residential Care or Social Services insurance program.
Jarrod Cordle
Residential Care & Social Services Risk Advisor
Morris & Garritano
Meet Camper Bull
Camper Bull has generated 34 million in online sales for clients in the last nine years. He has built four companies to over six figures and launched six New York Times bestsellers. His greatest joy is leveraging technology to heighten an entrepreneur's vision to greater and greater heights.
Camper Bull
Heightener
Meet John Jamieson
John Jamieson is the owner of Perpetual Wealth Systems, a national wealth strategy company working with people and businesses on a better business model for automatically and systematically creating tax free generational wealth. He is an expert at Wealth Creation/Preservation, Marketing, Sales and Real Estate Investment, and investment grade life insurance.
John bought his first house at the age of 21 and went on to invest in and broker tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate. John and the team work with clients from all over North America to help them grow wealth, protect wealth, and reduce taxes of all kind.
His company specializes in showing people how to create income and wealth without utilizing stocks or mutual funds. He has spoken to hundreds of audiences all over the United States and Canada on the subjects of Business, Real Estate and Wealth Creation. John also is the #1 best-selling author of 2 books “The Perpetual Wealth System” and “Wealth Without Stocks or Mutual Funds.” John has appeared as a featured guest on dozens of radio shows. He has also written for AOL’s Daily Finance, Talk Markets and Florida Realtor® Magazine to name a few. His articles and interviews have appeared in dozens of national outlets from CNBC to AOL.
He will show you how to use secret assets that are right under your nose to greatly increase your net positive cash flow and decrease what he calls your 4 “wealth drains” John has assembled the top talent in the country to help individuals and businesses dramatically improve their financial lives both now and for generations to come.
John Jamieson
Perpetual Wealth Systems
Meet Michael Marlow
Michael Marlow has been involved in the Senior Living industry for
over 24 years beginning his career with Hillhaven and has served
in various sales training and senior sales management roles with
Vencor, Atria and Brookdale. These roles have ranged from
interim sales manager to Regional Sales and Marketing Director
to Assistant National Director of Sales to National Vice President
of Sales. Mike has also served as President of The Marlow Group,
a consulting company serving Senior Living providers for the past
twelve years. Mike currently serves as the Marketing and Sales
Training Manager at Life Care Services based in Des Moines, IA.
He is also a nationally published author and frequent lecturer in
many areas such as Leading Age sessions, state ALFA affiliates
and at the University of Louisville schools of Nursing and
Dentistry as well as at the school of nursing at Bellarmine
University. Mike is also the author of an ALFA Best of the Best
award winning sales training program in 2012.
Michael is a proud graduate of the University of Kentucky and
lives in Louisville, KY. He is married with two grown children;
Bradley, a Physical Therapy Assistant graduate from the
University of Kentucky and Jill, an Occupational Therapy Doctoral
student at Belmont University in Nashville.
Michael Marlow
The Marlow Group
Convention Agenda
FRI 10/9
7am to 5pm / PDT
General
Sessions
Keynote Presentations
SAT 10/10
7AM TO 5PM / PDT
General
Sessions
Keynote Presentations
SUN 10/11
8AM TO 10aM / PDT
New to RAL Special Session
10AM TO 2PM / PDT
General Sessions & Closing Presentations
Hear What Attendees Are Saying About RAL NAT CON
Jas & Pinki Dhillon
Blake Templeton
Shannon & Steve
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