Integral Senior Dwelling CEO President and Collette Grey is retiring after three many years as an trade chief. Her retirement was introduced Friday and is efficient June 30.
She is stepping down from her function later this yr to spend extra time together with her household and mates. She is slated to stay an advisor and member of the Discovery Senior Dwelling board of administrators post-retirement.
Grey, who was recognized with a number of sclerosis in 1995, stated her illness is progressing, prompting her determination to retire. As she steps away from the trade, Grey stated her determination to retire was not a simple one to make, and that the second feels “bittersweet.”
“I’m leaving an trade that I’m captivated with and have labored in for 30 years. However on the similar time, I’m going to have the ability to spend time with household and mates,” she advised Senior Housing Information.
Integral Senior Dwelling COO Laura Fisher is about to handle the corporate’s portfolio now that Grey is retiring. Grey additionally was CEO of Solstice Senior Dwelling, and the corporate’s portfolio will now be led by COO Steve Flynt.
In 2023, Discovery Senior Dwelling acquired and merged with ISL as sister corporations, with Grey serving an “instrumental” function in that course of.
“Collette has been a transformational chief, not just for Discovery, however for all the seniors housing trade,” Discovery Senior Dwelling CEO Richard Hutchinson stated in an announcement about Grey’s retirement. “Her imaginative and prescient and method ensured the seamless integration of ISL whereas additionally serving to to ascertain Discovery as a nationwide chief, delivering distinctive experiences and care to our residents, their households and all our communities.”
In the present day, Discovery Senior Dwelling’s holdings embody almost 35,000 items throughout 350 communities and almost 40 states, and an umbrella of corporations that along with ISL consists of Discovery Administration Group, Provincial Senior Dwelling, Morada Senior Dwelling, TerraBella Senior Dwelling, LakeHouse Senior Dwelling, Arvum Senior Dwelling and a handful of different manufacturers.
Grey, who joined Discovery after the acquisition and mixture of the businesses, stated she is “extremely proud” of what they’ve completed in simply a few years. ISL introduced on 5 extra communities in early January, and Grey stated the operator has succeeded in hiring a “robust workforce” for its subsequent part of development.
Her greatest accomplishments inside the firm had been “creating a tradition the place folks need to come to work day by day, creating expertise inside the trade and seeing folks with potential and rising them to new heights.”
Grey has hung out with a number of completely different corporations all through the years. Earlier than becoming a member of ISL, she labored with Merrill Gardens for six years, and labored in a number of roles at Atria Senior Dwelling after its merger with ARV.
Mentoring Grey through the years had been trade veterans together with former Classic Senior Dwelling President Vicki Clark, former R.D. Merrill President and Merrill Gardens Founder Invoice Pettit and ISL Founder Sue Farrow.
Grey additionally helped mentor a number of folks now in outstanding trade positions through the years, together with Cassondra Blair, who rose by means of the ranks beginning as a receptionist with ISL and now works as Discovery’s vp of licensing and authorized assimilation; ISL COO Fisher, who Grey initially employed as a enterprise workplace supervisor; and present Oakmont Senior Dwelling President and CEO Courtney Siegel, who Grey first employed as a gross sales director.
“I really feel really honored to have been in a position to take part in and be a part of some extremely gifted folks rising on this trade,” she stated.
Grey additionally served on the Argentum board of administrators and chaired its Girls in Management committee, which she co-founded in 2017.
As she surveys the senior residing trade, Grey stated she is “extremely optimistic” for the yr forward. She added that 2025 would be the yr she sees the trade “working smarter, not more durable” in gentle of all its latest challenges.
“I positively see us shifting ahead,” she stated. “Innovation, know-how, folks doing out of the field issues are going to be key in 2025, and that excites me.”
Grey’s subsequent chapter will embody spending time with family and friends along with volunteering. She is especially captivated with touring, and as of 2025 she has traveled to all seven continents and is near reaching a aim of visiting 100 nations throughout the globe.
Grey additionally works with charitable organizations such because the Girls’s Useful resource Heart, which helps ladies who’re victims of home abuse; and the Coastal Humane Society, a corporation that helps pets and animals.
