Schulich Mini-MBA: Dentist Business Leadership Program

WIN Thinking Program Launch

The WIN Thinking is a highly experiential business results-focused Program Launch event. Dentists will be engaged and active as they discover leadership frameworks and techniques to pursue the best version of themselves and ideate about their Personal Entrepreneurial Project.

• Jeff MacInnis

Leading Healthcare Transformation

Set the context for transforming yourself and your organization/ dental practice. Understand your own talent and leadership makeup through LeaderGENE assessment. With a focus on self-awareness and natural style tendencies, participants will be taken through a debrief of their results, leadership norms will be shared, as well as ideas for how to leverage and shift style to meet the needs of your practice.

• Tracey Levison

How Dental Care is Organized, Financed and Delivered and How Changes in These Areas will Impact the Future of Dentistry

Examine how dentistry is governed and managed, funded and paid for, and who and how it is delivered; the role of sub-national, national and international public and private agencies and markets; and how the political economy of dentistry is changing.

• Carlos Quiñonez

Strategic Management I and II

Examine strategic roles played by hospitals, governments, and regional authorities, as well as their decision-making and accountability structures. This module also examines costs and financing; stakeholders; consolidation and clinical integration; challenges and threats. Strategic concepts in various management and multi-disciplinary settings, changing technologies and methods of health delivery will be illustrated.

• Wissam AlHussaini

Cybersecurity in Community Health Care Facilities, Business @ The Speed of Thought: How Community Health Care Practices Can Model And Make Data-Driven Decisions

Dr. Ian Furst will discuss cybersecurity of dental facilities, the type of data that can be put at risk, and a layered approach to protecting patient data whether on premises or in the cloud. In the 2nd part of his lecture, Dr. Furst will discuss the metrics of practice efficiency, how concepts such as CQI, Lean, and six-sigma are applied in health care, then give real world examples of how EMR software can be leveraged to provide near-real time analytics to efficiency-minded practices.

• Ian Furst

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Healthcare

Explore the entrepreneurial landscape in healthcare, the role of disruptive technologies, innovation, new business models, leveraging public-private partnerships, understanding complex regulatory requirements, and the need for human capital. This module explores value creation through the art and science of business planning to drive investment, innovation and transformation in healthcare.

• Megan Mitchell, Daniel Warner

Trends in Health Technology that will Shape the Future of Dentistry and Impact on Brand Identity

In this engaging and thought-provoking module, we discuss Medically necessary dentistry, Digital dentistry, Tele-dentistry, Oral-systemic health links and precision medicine/dentistry and how these emerging approaches and insights will shape the future of our profession. Further, we will explore of the impact that trends in health technology will have on brand identity, as well as their integration and influence on the patient experience. We will also touch on the concepts of data-driven marketing and leveraging technology during implementation.

• Michael Glogauer, Daniel Weitz

Managerial Finance

This session provides an opportunity to learn about investment and financing. The investment decision allocates scarce resources to projects in a business and involves asset valuation and capital Schulich Mini-MBA: Dentist Business Leadership Program

• Beppino Paquali

The Business of Dental Clinics I

This module focuses on Dental Practice Appraisal and Identifying key metrics that impact Appraisal. Factors involved in Buying & Selling a Practice and issues surrounding associating with, purchase or joining a dental corporation will also be presented.

• Timothy A. Brown

The Business of Dental Clinics II

This module focuses on financial considerations on running an effective dental business. It will also discuss opportunities and challenges caused by clinic networks like 123Dentist and Dentalcorp.

What are important issues to consider when deciding to join a partnership.

• Andrea Chan

Risk Management for the Dental Entrepreneur

What are some of the things to watch out for in starting and growing your practice? How can I mitigate the risks and overcome the challenges associated with practicing a profession and running a successful business in a highly regulated environment (i.e. financial, HR, regulatory, operations, referrals, location, competition, technology)? This session focuses on risk management and best practices to protect your investment and increase the value of your practice.

• Lionel Lenkinski

Emerging Digital Technologies, Business Disruptors and Their Impact on Healthcare

Link the execution of business strategy to innovation and new technology in healthcare.

Explore key areas of Digital transformation, Digital dentistry, Virtual access, Dentistry as healthcare, Personalized dental care.

• Shane Saunderson, Michael Glogauer

Negotiation Strategy

Few skills are as important to dental leaders as the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence others. In this session, we examine evidence-based approaches to building agreement between parties. This session will describe how to best prepare for a negotiation, how to identify whether potential agreements are good or bad, and how to be most persuasive when presenting offers.

• Kevin Tasa

Marketing & Brand Strategy

Explore leading empirical evidence and practices today for conceiving and executing a marketing strategy as well as building strong brands and businesses. Describe how behavioural economics and neuroscience inform our knowledge of how to positively impact consumer buyer behaviour today.

• Ashley Konson

Essentials of Human Resource Management I and II

Learn HR from a managerial standpoint with new perspectives on actively managing your own practice. How do we attract and recruit staff and manage support staff issues?

• Stephen Friedman

Panel Discussion: The Future of the Dental Business/Industry

This panel discussion will examine the Future of the Dental Industry and discuss topics such as disruption, dental service organizations, patient expectations, fees, digital transformation, business environment, regulation, growth opportunities

• George Christodoulou, Timothy A. Brown, Andrea Chan

Project Presentations, Graduation and Closing

Deliver a Personal Entrepreneurial Project presentation to guest adjudicators, plus graduation and closing ceremonies.

• Michael Glogauer, George Christodoulou, Timothy A. Brown, Andrea Chan, Executive Panel