Business Speaking Topics

  • Managing your Business & Finances

    The Business Side of Dentistry

    Fraud in Your Dental Practice

    Benchmarking Your Dental Practice

    Choosing the Right Retirement Plan

  • Leadership & Motivation

    Leadership Skills and Training

    How to Motivate and Lead Your Team

    Your Career Choices

    Abundance vs. Scarcity Mindset: It’s A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

  • Communication & Relationships

    How to Avoid Associate/Partner Pitfalls

    Networking and Communication Skills

    Having Difficult Conversations with Your Team Members

    Dental Rep to True Business Consultant: The Transition from “Order Taker” to Trusted Advisor

Past Seminar Attendee

“Great presentation. Wish I would have heard it 40 years ago.”

Past Seminar Attendee

"Easy & great presentation." “Excellent topic & presenter.”"Great speaker. Great topic.”

In-Person Seminars

Dental practice owners wear many hats. My public speaking engagements cover a wide variety of topics to help you succeed in every facet of business management. Topics include equipment depreciation, identifying fraud, upleveling your team's skills, office culture, and more.

Online & Virtual Webinars

Some dental practices have several office locations or team members that work remotely. Webinars are also available for these groups and cover all the same in-depth topics as the in-person seminars. As a bonus, all webinar content can be recorded, distributed amongst your practice leaders, and used as a reference guide for future use.

MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS & FINANCES

  • • Identify the critical building blocks of every successful practice.

    • Provide critical but easy-to-understand business concepts essential to leading your practice.

    • Tips to use tax & retirement plan incentives to increase practice cash flow and future growth potential.

    • Leave you with the blueprint of a written plan to improve your practice and your life.

  • • Understanding warning signs of fraud and why it is commonplace in dental practices.

    • Simple steps to strengthen your control environment.

    • How to make fraud conversations with your team comfortable.

    • What to do if you uncover fraud in your practice.

  • • Identifying the measurements that matter.

    • Providing you with the common benchmarks in key financial and operational areas.

    • Common reasons why dental practices fall short of benchmarks.

    • Tools and steps that can help your practice achieve your benchmarking goals.

  • • The current state of retirement readiness in dentistry (hint – it could be better!)

    • An overview of various retirement plans and why yours should change during your practice lifetime.

    • How to avoid the most common investment mistakes.

    • Tools to help you determine your retirement readiness.

  • • Understanding the Importance of Leadership Skills.

    • Mastering the Two Most Important Leadership Qualities.

    • Steps to Build the Trust of Your Team.

    • Techniques to Ensure a Positive and Dynamic Culture.

  • • Proven strategies to effectively communicate with and motivate your team.

    • The three keys to giving a successful pep talk.

    • How to deal with a bad apple on your team in a way that will make you a hero.

    • The secret to building a dynamic team and maximizing team productivity.

  • • Understand how to successfully begin your career while managing your debt load.

    • Identify the various career choices: partnership, associate, corporate dentistry.

    • Break out the pros/cons of each basis choice.

    • Provide you with a checklist to help you ensure a successful start to your career.

  • • Abundance vs Scarcity Defined

    • Group Exercise – Which Mindset are You?

    • The Power Inherent in Abundance Thinking

    • How to Join “Team Abundance” - Grow Your Practice and Improve Your Life

LEADERSHIP & MOTIVATION

  • • Steps to ensure a successful associate and partner “marriage”.

    • Common pitfalls and oversights that will doom an associate or partnership– from both perspectives.

    • Critical steps in preparing your practice for a sale.

    • A checklist of Agreements and Terms that every sale should include.

  • • Understand and incorporate networking into your career.

    • We are all in business development – how to be comfortable and stand out.

    • The key to communication – ADAPT your style to others.

    • A guaranteed approach to help you enjoy and connect at networking function.

  • • Common Reasons for Difficult Conversations.

    • Preparing a Roadmap for your Difficult Conversation.

    • Planning for Common Employee Reactions.

    • Achieving the End Goal of the Conversation.

  • • Understand how to explain critical business concepts in plain English to your dentists

    • Highlight to your dentists the power of thinking like a CEO and embracing an “abundance mindset”

    • Provide your dentists with simple yet critical leadership concepts

    • Incorporate the SWOT tool (a strategic thinking exercise) in your conversations with all of your dentists

COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS

Previous Dental Speaking Opportunities

National AGD Convention

Dentsply Sirona

Henry Schein

A-dec

Marion Polk Dental Study Club

Burkhart

Ignite DDS

Phoenix Dental Study Club

Patterson Dental

OHSU School of Dentistry

Wenatchee Study Club

California Oral Surgery Study Club

Burkhart

ODEA Study Club

A-dec

washington agd

Patterson Dental

University of Washington School of Dentistry

The Hispanic Dental Association National Convention

San Diego Study Club

Sirona 3D Events

Pacific NW Dental Convention

San Fernando Valley Study Club

Henry Schein

Loveland Study Club, Denver Tech Study Club

oregon agd

Las Vegas Study Club

3D Infusion Dental

Hilo

Neocis (webinars)

Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC (University of Southern California)

Rio Grande Valley Study Club

HI Study Club

National AGD Convention • Dentsply Sirona • Henry Schein • A-dec • Marion Polk Dental Study Club • Burkhart • Ignite DDS • Phoenix Dental Study Club • Patterson Dental • OHSU School of Dentistry • Wenatchee Study Club • California Oral Surgery Study Club • Burkhart • ODEA Study Club • A-dec • washington agd • Patterson Dental • University of Washington School of Dentistry • The Hispanic Dental Association National Convention • San Diego Study Club • Sirona 3D Events • Pacific NW Dental Convention • San Fernando Valley Study Club • Henry Schein • Loveland Study Club, Denver Tech Study Club • oregon agd • Las Vegas Study Club • 3D Infusion Dental • Hilo • Neocis (webinars) • Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC (University of Southern California) • Rio Grande Valley Study Club • HI Study Club •