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Clelia Pergola
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Clelia was instrumental in building the NJ Elder Law Center at Goldberg Law Group (NJELC) from the ground up by implementing a streamlined, procedures-based model for the elder care area. This process allows the attorneys and team members to accomplish their tasks efficiently without unnecessary distractions and stress. What this means for our clients is better results and friendlier service. Clelia has since translated these successful techniques into “The Law Firm Revolution” a book she co-wrote with Barbara Mannino, on this new law firm model.
Clelia has also written a second book “Life, Lessons, & Legacy“ which is the story of Clelia’s odyssey of self-discovery in the years following her grandmother Nonna Lidia’s death. While Clelia went through all the motions of a normal life and strived to project strength to those around her, internally, she was experiencing tremendous self-doubt. In reality, at many times, she was overtaken by self-recrimination about some of the decisions she had made about Nonna’s care during the years when Nonna’s dementia and physical atrophy were reaching new heights.
Clelia is passionate about helping caregivers rise above the frustrating and emotionally draining outcomes of caregiving responsibilities… women establish goals, manage the challenges of accomplishing them, and achieve balance in their lives… helping all these dedicated individuals become the best versions of themselves! Clelia is an Italian immigrant and was a caregiver to her Nonna & Nonno and has personally experienced the frustrations and challenges of the long-term care system. When not working, Clelia enjoys traveling to back to Italy to her family home, cooking, reading/learning about business, and spending time with her husband and sons, Dante Domenico and Gino Angelo.
Awards:
2018 Leading Women Entrepreneurs & Business Owners Top 25 Leading Woman Intrapreneur
2018 Boy Scouts of America Tribute to Women Award
2018 NJBIZ 40 Under 40
2019 NJBIZ Top 50 Women in Business
2021 NJ Business & Industry Association Executive of the Year
2022 Forbes & Fortune Magazine Extraordinary Women in Business
2023 NJBIZ Empowering Woman -
Christina Candido Morelli
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With over a decade of experience in senior living, Christina had a somewhat unconventional start to her career. While pursuing a medical degree, it was apparent that she wanted to help people in a different way. In early 2012, she explored her innate pull to the senior community as she lived and volunteered in a dementia care facility in Northern Italy. It was there where she realized what can only be described as a true calling.
Upon her return to New Jersey, Christina earned her Master’s Degree in psychological counseling with a focus on geriatrics and family counseling from Monmouth University, graduating at the top of her class. She then went back to Italy for three months to volunteer again with those living with dementia, conducting independent research and starting a blog in the process.
Christina began her career stateside first in senior living sales, acting as a resource for prospective residents and helping them to move into her community. She quickly transitioned to operations, working as Executive Director for several years in Bergen, Morris, and Monmouth counties while also becoming a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Certified Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia Care Trainer. Christina managed to continue her travels and volunteer experiences, even developing a Caring for the Caregivers program over the course of three years in the Philippines and visiting the first ever Dementia Village in the Netherlands.
Christina brought with her varied experience, diverse perspectives, immense compassion, and unwavering dedication to her role as Executive Director. With a strong moral compass and each resident’s best interest at heart, her work in the senior living field has been invaluable. To say it’s been fulfilling for her would be an understatement. After welcoming two children, Leo in 2021 and Luca in 2022, she’s watched with immense pride and emotion as her boys have taken to countless “bonus grandparents”. They are all family to her, a testament to how deeply Christina cares for the elders she is fortunate enough to serve, learn from, and advocate for.