Grounded on clarity, driven by purpose
Partner with a leader who combines operational precision with human-centered care.
Aravine Consulting helps operators design communities where the Experience of Daily Living drives engagement, performance, and long term sustainability.
Meet Jesse Pitts
Senior living consultant, entrepreneur & Regional Director overseeing 750-bed portfolio across 9 communities. Founder of Aravine Consulting LLC, serving operators with $100M+ portfolios. Rose from overnight care aide to senior leadership. MBA from University of South Florida, published thought leader. Two-time Latin Grammy-nominated drummer/producer.
"Living with Purpose"
The TILLMAN Framework for Activities in Senior Living
Living With Purpose: The TILLMAN Framework for Activities in Senior Living by Jesse Tillman Pitts is a groundbreaking guide that reimagines engagement in elder care. Rather than reducing activities to schedules or checklists, Pitts presents the TILLMAN Framework-Transforming Mindsets, Inclusive Engagement, Lively Environments, Loving Leadership, Meaningful Connections, Adaptable Systems, and Nurturing Relationships. This model blends philosophy with practice, helping leaders, staff, and families create environments where older adults thrive with dignity and joy. Drawing on professional experience and real-life stories, Pitts shows how meaningful connection can transform residents’ lives and how structure and intentionality can make that transformation sustainable. From planning systems to food- and transportation-based programming, the book provides practical tools that elevate engagement from routine to purpose-driven care. Inspiring and actionable, Living With Purpose challenges outdated views of aging and offers a vision of senior living rooted in humanity, creativity, and connection.
Transform Your Community Through Meaningful Engagement
Aravine Consulting provides proven strategies that turn routine days into memorable experiences. Let us show you how we create vibrant, person-centered events that boost resident satisfaction, reduce turnover, and strengthen your reputation. From seasonal celebrations that honor individual histories to wellness programs that spark genuine connections, learn the practical approaches that make residents eager to participate and families confident in choosing your community.
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Our Founder’s Story
Aravine was founded by Jesse Tillman Pitts after a simple but disruptive realization. Senior living looks very different when you experience it the way residents do. During a turnaround project, Jesse immersed himself in the daily life of a community not as a visitor or executive, but by living the rhythms residents live every day. What became clear was not a lack of care, but a lack of engagement. Days were full, yet felt empty and lacked meaning.
That experience reshaped his entire view of the industry. Senior living excels at providing the Activities of Daily Living, but residents experience life through something deeper, the “Experience of Daily Living”. ADLs are the floor. Experience is the ceiling. Engagement, purpose, and joy are the drivers of satisfaction, stability, reputation, and long term success.
Aravine was built on that insight. The firm takes an interdisciplinary and international approach informed by both practitioners and researchers, drawing from operations, psychology, occupational science, the humanities, and organizational behavior. Research informs the work, but it is never the final word. The real test is what holds up in communities without controlled variables, perfect staffing, or ideal conditions. If it cannot scale in the real world, it does not belong in the solution.
Aravine’s mission is to improve the Experience of Daily Living for people in senior housing while helping operators run stronger, more profitable, and more sustainable communities. By translating research into operationally sound systems, Aravine helps raise the standard of the industry and proves that human centered communities are not only better to live in, but better to run.
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