Alicia Heazlitt’s passion for building brands, market research, and strategic collaborations has led her to InnovateLTC, a unique business accelerator with a goal to transform long termcare. Her work since its inception in 2010 has led to a revolutionary platform that accelerates innovative solutions to the aging population. Such work focuses on. radical and global innovation models, community engagement programs, and distribution channels designed to improve the quality of life and quality of care to the expanding elderly population. These solutions are powered by the demographic shift, a response to health care reform and an anticipation of public health threats, by finding sustainable and strong collaborations. These partnerships have enabled university researchers and entrepreneurs to validate and distribute innovative solutions to providers and consumers. Alicia’s mission is to identify and connect the best minds, transfer knowledge and tools through unique collaborations that ignite innovations across the care continuum. Along with her team, she recently completed a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program to identify, understand, and redefine the fragmented delivery models in the health care continuum.