Incoming Institute CEO Tom Esselman pens a guest column for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Coming from Hallmark, I’ve worked with passionate people who worked together to put a shared vision into action. As a leader in that culture, I’d like to comment on the extraordinary enthusiasm and commitment I’ve witnessed in the Sarasota community. [read more [...]
SARASOTA – That the elderly hate new-fangled technology is a notion so cliche it has become conventional wisdom, but when Tom Esselman was introducing new technology for products from Hallmark Cards, he often found the opposite to be true. He points to when his company introduced microchips in cards which could record a voice greeting. [...]
SARASOTA – Last Friday, I met Tom Esselman, the Institute for the Ages’ (www.institutefortheages.org) first CEO. Dressed in jeans, a gray sports coat and a colorful tie, Esselman, 51, had already started on the meet-and-greet circuit before he officially starts his new job in early June. He’s taking the new position after 22 years at [...]
SARASOTA — Longtime Hallmark Cards executive Tom Esselman has been named the first fulltime CEO of The Institute for the Ages. The Sarasota-based nonprofit, which focuses on leveraging Sarasota County’s aging demographics, announced the hire today. Esselman has been with Hallmark for more than 20 years. He was most recently the director of new concept [...]
“Aging isn’t any one thing. Aging is everything,” reports Institute for the Age’s CEO Tim Dutton during his presentation “A Community that Values Its Demographics” at the 2012 Aging in America conference in Washington, DC. He’s put his finger on a growing problem that might be bigger than ObamaCare, the U.S./Mexico wall, our relations with [...]
