LCS Announces Inaugural Pinnacle Club 2025 Award Winners
Jan 28 2026LCS has announced the recipients of its inaugural Pinnacle Club Awards, designed to recognize an elite group of top-performing sales professionals across the organization. The awards honor sales leaders whose results placed them among the top 10% of performers enterprise-wide, reflecting record-setting achievements in occupancy, closings, move-ins, and overall community performance.
“At LCS, we are passionate about helping our residents live purposeful lives filled with rich experiences, and these awards recognize individuals who have helped new residents start this journey,” said Jim Pusateri, LCS Chief Sales Officer. “These leaders exemplify what it means to deliver extraordinary performance, elevate the customer experience, and live our commitment that Experience Is Everything®. As the inaugural group of Pinnacle Club honorees, they are setting a high bar for excellence and helping shape what this recognition program will represent for years to come.”
Award recipients span across LCS-owned or managed communities and levels of care. The awards also include recognition for individual Regional Sales and Marketing leaders. The 2025 Pinnacle Club Award winners include:
COMMUNITY AWARDS
Life Plan Independent Living Occupancy
350+ units
Sagewood: Kristin Caliendo, Michael Dobbs, Traci Giliberto
Mercy Ridge: Patty Yingling
225-349 units
Freedom Pointe at The Villages: Carol Scroggie, Stephanie Parson
Freedom Village at Brandywine: Chelsea Sheehan, Mary Main, Suzanne Koch
Less than 225 units
Burcham Hills: Michelle Traill-Crosser, Samantha Sumner
Essex Meadows: Karen Hines, Wanda Larivee
Life Plan Assisted Living/Memory Care Occupancy
60+ units
Marquette: Lisa VanTassel, Heather Jones
Westminster Village West Lafayette: Tricia Moody, Stephanie Smith
Less than 60 units
The Heritage at Brentwood: Denice Powers
Stoneridge: Jamie Cornell, Jason Herald, Rachelle Michelson
Life Plan Health Care Center Occupancy
80+ units
Monarch Landing: Colleen Espinosa, Katie Lohr, Merlrose Zapata, Kimmy Giudice
Less than 80 units
Freedom Pointe at The Villages: Michelle Couse, Sol Mastoros, Susan Villanueva
Wesley Pines Retirement Community: Jessica Stanley
Sagewood: Jennifer LaForest, Austin Mitchell
Rental Occupancy
215+ Units
Danberry At Inverness: Lindsey Granberry, Lori Krueger
Rose Senior Living Avon: Carol Morris, Rachel Figueroa
150-214 units
Clarendale Ann Arbor: Joan Desjarlais, Moira Yuhas
Clarendale at Indian Lake: Cheri Anderson
Less than 150 units
Havenwood of Buffalo: Ashley Steabner
Havenwood of Richfield: Christine Pepper
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Life Plan Independent Living Sales Directors
Life Plan Sales Directors - Independent Living Closings
350+ Units: Kristin Drees, Monarch Landing
225-349 Units: Elizabeth O’Connor, Blakehurst
Less than 225 Units: Stacy Guthmann, Moldaw Residences
Life Plan Independent Living Closings
350+ units
Luci Norlin, Regency Oaks
Cynthia Glass, Lake Port Square
David Shopland, Rolling Green Village
Kimberly Rees, Westminster
Lexie Jones, Rolling Green Village
225-349 units
Karen Eickman, Greenwood Village South
Sara Green, Marquette
Beneta Usechek, Wyndemere
Jill Burton, Sandhill Cove
Jason Allaire, Freedom Village Holland
Less than 225 units
Lori Morrison, Village at Gleannloch Farms
Kathryn Travers, Residences at Vantage Pointe
Roberta Cleveland, The Arlington of Naples
Debi Bryant, WhiteStone
Rental Move-Ins
215+ Units
Alexandra Bolen, Amavida at Lakes Park
Britney Mitchell, Richmond Place
Ngaio Birkhead, Clarendale Arcadia
Tammette Holzer, Hearthwood Senior Living
Patrick Gilbertson, Harbour Village
150-214 units
Linda Marre, Clarendale of Addison
Jill Bengle, Rose Senior Living Clinton Township
Maureen Vande Logt, Clarendale of Algonquin
Less than 150 units
Shannon Rhodes, Heritage at Irene Woods
Bryan Neal, The Avalon of Commerce Township
Roxanne Reiter, The Avalon of Lewis Center
Life Plan Assisted Living/Memory Care Move-Ins
60+ units
Deana Damigo, Freedom Square
Shawn Snyder, Freedom Village of Bradenton
Less than 60 units
Beverly Cox, Mercy Ridge
Michele Davidson, Sandhill Cove
Regional Marketing & Sales
Life Plan
Marie Dunn
Tim Hamilton
Rental
Debbie Massey
