Lori Alford is the high-energy, goal-driven Chief Operating Officer for Avanti Senior Living, which is redefining senior housing through forward-thinking design, endless choice and state-of-the-art technology. She co-founded the company, which owns, develops and operates senior living communities that empower older adults while providing freedom of choice and sophisticated living that defy conventional standards. Alford, one of senior living’s most respected innovators, draws from her nearly 20 years of experience in senior living as she forges industry-transforming practices for assisted living and memory care.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Lori’s mentor Tim
When business started difficulties overcame:
“It seems like we had to overcome everything from oh wait we ran out of copy paper we got to run and grab some real quick to processing payroll from scratch versus a well oiled machine that we never had to worry about that to oh my god we have to process it and approve it to all these little idiosyncrasies that go into it, we started everything from scratch”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Book by Gino Wickman
Favourite Quote:
“What got you here won’t get you there”
Recommended Online Resources:
- TED Talks – are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity
- Twitter – is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, “tweets”, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Stay true to who you are and when the going gets tough don’t let the going get you, keep your head up, know who you are, keep marching forward, don’t wait for the lights to turn green all at once because they never will”…[Listen for More]
More About Lori Alford:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.” William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Lori Alford:
- “As an entrepreneur you do a lot of talking”
- “Being okay to fail is a good thing meaning not failure as in ultimately crumbling your organisation but failure as in being able to try and experiment new things and that may not work out, and being able to go, okay and walking away from that idea because it just didn’t work
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