Meet Brant
Executive Director
The executive director, along with our friendly and professional staff, strives to create positive, stimulating ways for residents to continue living life with meaning and purpose. We are a friendly family where we treat residents like real people with real life stories.
Our community is a great story that includes heartwarming chapters and incredibly unique characters all in a wonderful setting. Here is the executive director’s story:
How long have you worked in the retirement industry?
Thirty years
What do you like best about your job?
A teacher by nature, I love coaching teams and helping them to excel and realize their full potential.
What do you like to do in your free time and why?
RVing, hiking, off roading – anything outdoors; taking the grandkids to Disney – because I am the biggest kid of all; reading – for pleasure, for work, for growth – it feeds the senses in a way that television cannot.
If you could meet one person, past or present, who would it be and why?
Albert Einstein – Wouldn’t it be fun to see how he saw the world?
What’s your favorite movie and why?
The Man Who Would Be King – unheard of movie that teaches great life lessons
What’s your favorite dish or dessert and why?
Pecan Pie – Who doesn’t like pecan pie!
In what ways do your residents inspire you?
They have lived in an amazing time, a century of change that the world will likely never again experience, their life stories are inspirational.
Do you have any memorable experiences with a particular resident you would like to share?
I was fortunate to have as a resident one of the few remaining survivors of the USS Arizona. At a Veterans Day ceremony he spoke of Pearl Harbor and the carnage he experienced that day, and it brought tears to every set of eyes in the room. The courage, determination and can-do resolve these brave men and women brought to the war effort truly made them America’s greatest generation.
How do you honor your residents at your community?
We have a mission statement and service philosophy that we developed, and my favorite line is: “Value the resident’s life experiences and accomplishments as they enrich our own lives.”
Tell us about a resident with a remarkable life story?
The best stories are of those residents who grew up poor, suffered through the depression, and fought a war for their country. Then, through hard work, perseverance and determination made a success of their life. It is the same story but with different characters told time and again in any community.
Tell us about a resident whose life changed for the better once they moved to your community.
We see people move in every day suffering from the loss of a spouse who are depressed and possibly isolated. When they move to Regency Oaks they blossom, and joy is returned to their life.
In what ways do your employees inspire you?
The level of caring at the community is incredible and it’s genuine.
How do you create a family-like atmosphere at your community?
We treat each other as family. Building relationships strengthens the ties that bond us together as a team and helps us to make it through the most difficult times.