AN ACTIVATED INSIGHTS PODCAST
About the Show
Welcome to Vision: The Care Leaders’ Podcast—a podcast that gives you an inside look at what’s happening in long-term and post-acute care. Host Linda Leekley sits down with industry leaders to discuss pressing challenges, operational best practices, and rising trends, and answer top-of-mind questions from providers across the nation.
All Episodes
Aaron Stapleton, Founder & CEO of Queen City Home Care in Cincinnati, Ohio explains why he started surveying his caregivers, what insights he's gained in the first three months, and how his agency is using survey feedback to not only retain, but also recruit vested caregivers.
Dustin Distefano, Founder and CEO of A Place at Home highlights the importance of a clearly defined caregiver journey. He breaks down: how to engage caregivers through meaningful touchpoints, how to create opportunities for advancement that ignite growth, and how engagement & professional growth lead to caregiver retention.
Lonnie Mayne, Founder of Red Shoes Living is a world-renowned speaker and author on humanizing the experience. He's here to share the 5-step framework of his philosophy: Red Shoes Living.
Learn how to build enriched culture, establish leadership responsibility, develop team accountability or create standout client experiences through this 5-step framework that's designed to help individuals show up and put their best self forward every day.
Todd Allen, CEO of AxisCare and Ari Medoff, CEO of Arosa answer top questions agencies are asking about the current M&A landscape and highlight what executives need to understand about their business to be set up for a future buy/sell.
Steve "The Hurricane" unpacks the three most important things your agency can do today to prepare to sell. Whether you've been in business for a year, three-years or twenty years, it's never too early or too late to have this conversation.
Clint Nobles, Founder of Home Care Ops and Owner of Nobility Care Solutions shares: what components a repeatable system needs to have, how your agency can create or adapt your current systems, how Nobility Care integrated systems resulting in rapid growth & sustainable revenue and why systems are the foundation for long-term success.
New HomeWell Care Services CEO, Crystal Franz and Will Childers, leading franchisee in Deleware highlight what they did to achieve a record-breaking year at both the organization and system-level.
Chelsey Ammons, VP of Nursing at Care Advantage Inc. dives into how her team has successfully retained hundreds of caregivers across 25+ locations over the course of the pandemic. She'll share seven tips with derived outcomes and examples that you can implement today to retain caregivers in your home care agency.
Olivia Jones, Executive Vice President of Care Advantage Inc. has been working in personal care for 23 years and is here to highlight five secrets to improve your home care scheduling processes.
In this episode we'll discuss: - What the five secrets are - How Olivia has seen these secrets work effectively across their 27 locations - What results you can expect to see from implementing these secrets
Brett Ringold, Vice President of family-owned agency, A Long Term Companion is here to highlight his decade of experience recruiting and retaining caregivers after having been a recipient of home care himself. We'll dive into office staff culture, mastering caregiver scheduling, measuring caregiver satisfaction, refining your onboarding process and much more. Tune in to learn tips that you can begin implementing in your home care business today!
Barbara Karnes, author of 'Gone From My Sight', 'The Little Blue Book' and 'The 11th Hour' shares what she's learned from 40+ years of experience educating and training care workers on the end of life experience.
She's known as the pioneer of the hospice industry and with over 30 million copies sold of her books, she's the expert on all topics around death and end of life.
Mitch Williams, Owner of Home Helpers, San Mateo is the only home care agency in California to win the Best of Home Care Leader in Excellence Award six years in a row. He’s here to share when, why and what outcomes they’ve driven while measuring client and caregiver satisfaction.

MEET THE HOSTS
Linda Leekley
Vision Host, Chief Clinical Officer – Activated Insights
Linda Leekley BS, RN founded In the Know Care Professional Training more than 20 years ago. Currently, she serves as Chief Clinical Officer for Activated Insights. Her experience in clinical education, acute care, and post-acute care make her a respected voice in our industry, with expertise in the recruitment and retention of care professionals, building strong care professional teams, upskilling care professionals, and using training as a marketing tool.