Events

Austera Group is a Platinum Sponsor of the 2026 One On One Sales Academy Summit, and President Kristin Kutac Ward will take the stage for her session, “No One Ever Asked.” Drawing on over three decades in senior living operations and her own family’s journey through the decision, Kristin will explore the discovery questions sales teams routinely skip — and what changes for occupancy, length of stay, and family trust when they don’t.

The 29th Annual Ziegler Senior Living Strategy & Finance Conference brings together owners, operators, CFOs, and executive teams for three days of substantive conversations about capital deployment, repositioning, and what the next 24 months look like in this sector. I’ll be on-site tracking the gap between what pro formas assume about lease-up and what ProMatura data actually shows, and where operators are quietly outperforming the market right now.
If you’re attending, let’s connect in advance or find me on-site September 23-25 in Marco Island.

The 2026 NIC Fall Conference brings together senior housing’s most influential leaders, capital providers, operators, and investors, more than 3,000 attendees with over 70% at the C-suite level, for three days in Chicago focused on deals, market intelligence, and where this sector is heading. I’ll be on-site tracking where capital is actually moving right now, how investor expectations are shifting on lease-up and stabilization timelines, and the operators who are quietly outperforming their underwriting.
If you’re attending, let’s connect in advance or find me on-site October 21-23 in Chicago.

BDNY (Boutique Design New York) is North America’s leading trade fair for hospitality design, and the line between boutique hospitality and senior living design keeps getting thinner. Michelle Clark and I will be on-site walking the floor, meeting with vendors, and thinking about what the sharpest hospitality design ideas mean for senior living repositioning.
If you’re attending, let’s connect in advance or find us on-site November 8-10 in New York City.