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Jill Zimmerman

Jill Zimmerman

Santa Rosa,CA

Summary

Highly skilled and enthusiastic professional with years of experience in management and operations.

Successfully oversees team hiring, onboarding, development, motivation, process creator, and strives to overachieve creatively.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Empowered Living

Clearwater Living
Newport Beach , CA
12.2021 - Current
  • Applied reason, logic, and advanced problem-solving skills to resolve complex and sensitive issues.
  • Coached, inspired and motivated others to excel creatively.
  • Manage 9 buildings and approximately 27 team members
  • Offer training and support in their monthly and yearly budgets
  • Work in fast-paced environment with competing demands.
  • Travel extensively to our communities to problem solve, implement, train and lead programming.
  • Recruite, hire and lead onboarding for all Lifestyle team members, including our transportation departments
  • Restructured the companies written cultural orientation to better express, through videos and interviews, our history, mission and core values.
  • Organized extensive roll-outs of our signatures and standards in our culinary program.
  • Created signatures and standards for our Lifestyle Departments.
  • Created new interview and new resident documentation to better organize our department

Lifestyle Director

Clearwater Living
Rohnert Park , CA
12.2019 - 12.2021
  • Helped residents acclimate to their new home in assisted living
  • Created a move-in standard that now happens company wide.
  • Developed and nurtured family relationships to better understand their needs and support them in their loved ones new beginning
  • Helped residents set and achieve health and wellness goals.
  • Implemented programming that lives on after I was promoted from this position
  • Managed a team of 2-3 people.
  • Onboarded lifestyle assistants, drivers as well as assistants from other communities
  • Had fellow Lifestyle Directors sent to me for motivation and inspiration in their own programming
  • Worked closely with our Memory Support department to streamline programming
  • Held monthly meetings with our Culinary department to plan for weekly and special events
  • Conducted interviews and surveys with residents to determine interest in our Empowered Living programs.
  • Organized community events to honor team members
  • Organized large seasonal events for residents, as well as smaller weekly parties.
  • Organized yearly walk to end Alzheimer's
  • Managed monthly and yearly budget
  • Fast paced environment which required thinking on your feet and always executing at the highest level
  • Always creating programming that met luxury brand standards

Program Coordinator

Council On Aging-Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa , CA
01.2017 - 11.2019
  • Organized and managed program development from conception through successful execution.
  • Created monthly calendar of events to engage seniors with dementia
  • Scheduled guest speakers and entertainers
  • Received extensive year long grief training to help foster relationships with families and guide and assist them in the continued care of their loved one
  • Offered local resources to family members for advancing care needs
  • Managed a monthly and yearly budget
  • Managed a team of 4

Actress

CBS
Los Angeles , CA

Worked as a guest star on TV shows like:

Everybody Loves Raymond

Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place

For Your Love

and The Jeff Foxworthy Show


Appeared in several indie movies


Workshopped acting scenes in private classes with top celebrity teachers


Education

Bachelor of Science - Communications

Ball State University
Munice, Indiana
05.1992

Skills

I excel at emotional communication, public speaking, and customer service I am a fair, firm and fun manager

My years in Hollywood taught me discretion, privacy, balancing a fast paced environment, and flexibility

My years working in senior living has taught me to slow down, it's never too late and there is joy in every little thing

Timeline

Director of Empowered Living

Clearwater Living
12.2021 - Current

Lifestyle Director

Clearwater Living
12.2019 - 12.2021

Program Coordinator

Council On Aging-Santa Rosa
01.2017 - 11.2019

Actress

CBS

Bachelor of Science - Communications

Ball State University
Jill Zimmerman