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Kara Teixeira

With 20 years of healthcare experience spanning acute care, post-acute care, home-based services, and senior living, Kara brings a unique perspective on the workforce challenges and opportunities shaping the healthcare industry. A significant part of her career has focused on healthcare workforce strategy, including agency staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, proactive workforce development, and the use of analytics to better understand and address talent needs.

Kara is passionate about bringing people into an industry she deeply believes in and helping organizations understand what attracts, motivates, and retains their workforce. She believes that building a stronger healthcare workforce starts with understanding people, not only what draws them to healthcare, but what inspires them to choose a particular organization, find purpose in their work, and build a lasting career.

Kara brings a people-centered, forward-thinking perspective to the conversation around workforce development, talent engagement, and the evolving strategies needed to build a more sustainable workforce for senior living and beyond.

2027 Sessions

From Skepticism to Scale: How Asbury Transformed Hiring and Elevated the Employee Experience Through AI and Human Expertise

Senior living leaders face persistent workforce pressures: labor shortages, rising recruitment costs, turnover, and increasing demands on talent teams. While artificial intelligence (AI) has generated excitement, many operators remain hesitant-questioning trust, implementation complexity, and whether technology can support the human-centered culture that defines both senior living and employee experience.


At Asbury Communities, workforce transformation has never been solely about efficiency, but about strengthening the employee experience from the start. A 9-time Great Place to Work� winner, Asbury exceeds national benchmarks in pride, camaraderie, and respect by focusing on hiring the right people at the right time-recognizing that culture begins before day one.


This session explores how Asbury moved beyond skepticism to implement AI-powered hiring tools and predictive workforce insights while preserving human connection. By leveraging predictive signals and emerging technologies, Asbury built scalable strategies that reduce administrative burden and allow recruiters to focus on meaningful candidate relationships.


Leaders will gain insight into overcoming resistance, building trust, and positioning AI as an enhancement to human expertise. Live audience polling will enable participants to benchmark workforce challenges, AI adoption readiness, and trust levels against peers, guiding real-time discussion and shared learning.


Attendees will also explore measurable outcomes, including reductions in overall turnover (40% to 23.7%) and new hire turnover (120% to 58%). Participants will leave with actionable strategies to evaluate technology investments, drive ROI, and strengthen employee experience while maintaining the human connection critical to senior living.

Co-Presenter

Tuesday, May 25 2:30–3:15 PM
Employee Experience
Faculty

Ashley Moyer

PHR, SHRM-CP
Manager, Talent Acquisition
Asbury Communities

Ashley Moyer brings over a decade of HR experience, including 10 years in senior living, and a passion for talent acquisition that goes beyond filling roles. Her HR Generalist background gives a practical view of the employee experience, shaping hiring strategies that hold up after day one. As Manager, Talent Acquisition at Asbury, she leads efforts across nine locations in three states (and can probably cite regulations in her sleep), using AI and workforce analytics to build scalable strategies that strengthen culture. She believes great hiring is where culture begins—and when done right, it solves more problems than it creates.

Faculty

Kara Teixeira

With 20 years of healthcare experience spanning acute care, post-acute care, home-based services, and senior living, Kara brings a unique perspective on the workforce challenges and opportunities shaping the healthcare industry. A significant part of her career has focused on healthcare workforce strategy, including agency staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, proactive workforce development, and the use of analytics to better understand and address talent needs.

Kara is passionate about bringing people into an industry she deeply believes in and helping organizations understand what attracts, motivates, and retains their workforce. She believes that building a stronger healthcare workforce starts with understanding people, not only what draws them to healthcare, but what inspires them to choose a particular organization, find purpose in their work, and build a lasting career.

Kara brings a people-centered, forward-thinking perspective to the conversation around workforce development, talent engagement, and the evolving strategies needed to build a more sustainable workforce for senior living and beyond.
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