NIC Chats

About NIC Chats

Get to know some of the leading voices and business leaders influencing seniors housing and skilled nursing today. Expect a little more humor, a few good stories from the frontlines, and perhaps a priceless insight gained from deep experience.

Publisher

National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2021

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   From Consumer Insight to Capital Alignment: Leadership Lessons from Four Decades in Senior Housing

   Benchmark Senior Living CEO, founder, and chairman Tom Grape joins host Lisa McCracken to reflect on nearly four decades in senior housing and what the sector needs to get right next. Grape discusses how the sector has matured, from the growth of assisted living and memory care to better data, and where gaps remain, especially in consumer research and the potential for true customer segmentation. The conversation also covers: Why capital and operator alignment has the opport...

2. 

   22 Jul 2026

   Lifestyle & Engagement — Determining the "Must-Haves" and Beyond in Active Adult Resident Programming — Episode 3

   In this third episode of NIC's Active Adult podcast series, Christine Tarras, Director of Client Services at Greystar joins host Caroline Clapp to share insights on how operators can build resident programming that drives both satisfaction and NOI. Tarras draws on Greystar's experience as the largest active adult operator to explain the mindset shift multifamily operators need to make when entering the sector, from longer pre-leasing timelines to a deeper understanding of resident psych...

3. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Active Adult Data-Driven Market and Product Selection — Episode 2

   As part of NIC's Active Adult podcast series, host Caroline Clapp sits down with Kimberly Byrum, Managing Principal, Multifamily, at Zonda Advisory Group, to share insights on how developers and investors can use data to identify the right markets and product for active adult rental communities. Byrum draws on Zonda's market study work to explain how demand sizing for active adult differs from conventional multifamily — shifting from jobs-driven econometric models to a more demographic-driven...

Who has been a guest on NIC Chats

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sarah Thomas
• Anne Tumlinson
• Sean Kelly

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

19

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51