Designing
Intergenerational
Partnerships

Spark Living and Learning works with higher education, senior living, and community leaders to create innovative, financially sustainable models that enrich learning, increase engagement, and improve well-being across generations.

Explore What’s Possible

Welcome

Communities are stronger — and learning richer — when generations learn and engage together.

How I work

Spark Living and Learning Services partners with leaders ready to rethink aging, education, and community.

From Spark to Strategy
Strategic consulting for exploring partnerships between higher ed and senior living—aligning vision, culture, and organizational resources to create sustainable, intergenerational models.

Consulting

Imagining What’s Possible
Immersive, day-long workshops that bring leaders together to generate ideas, shared ownership, and a clear path forward.

Workshops

From Vision to Action
Trusted, data-informed guidance for boards and executive teams navigating growth, innovation, and complex stakeholder environments.

Advisory Services

Inspiring New Ways of Thinking
Engaging presentations that challenge ageism and showcase innovative models of intergenerational living and learning.

Speaking Engagements

What people are saying

Anne Doyle’s energy, creativity, and experience inspire my team and me in Asia to explore new models for aging well. I love Anne's clear philosophy of forward-looking partnerships to maximize value for young and old. Anne always brings people together with great enthusiasm to make positive change happen.
CEO - Association for Healthy Aging, Singapore
Joel A. Barker once said, "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” This quote aligns with Anne Doyle’s consulting style.
Anne has a way of combining vision and action into such a synergy that one is unaware that they are embarking on a journey to change the world. Big change takes a series of small changes with deep roots and a firm foundation. Anne is expert at putting those pieces in place, with individuals, groups and entire organizations.
Anne leads, inspires, and works alongside. When the path is unclear and the outcomes uncertain, Anne was our lighthouse.
VP of Special Operations - National Health and Seniorcare corporation
What I have appreciated about Anne is her expertise around the wealth of opportunities older adult communities and institutions of higher education afford each other. Her knowledge and understanding of the cultures of colleges and universities, as well as her deep experience in serving older adults, result in a keen intuition of how to navigate both types of organizations.
As a CEO of a retirement community that is situated in a higher education landscape with three well regarded universities, I have appreciated her commitment to understanding our organization’s culture, rhythms and history, while finding ways to create focus amid abundant opportunities.
Anne’s talent in engaging residents and staff with curiosity has served us well. She has a wonderful ability to keep the goal in sight while listening deeply and creatively, adapting her approach all the while actively pursuing the goal.
CEO, Life Plan community, North Carolina

Anne Doyle, CEO
Spark Living and Learning, LLC

As CEO of Spark Living and Learning, Anne works with leaders in higher education, senior living, health care, real estate development, foundations, and governments around the world to develop innovative models of intergenerational living and learning.

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