Healthy Business

Virtual Workshop Series - coming soon!

A virtual workshop series for current and aspiring business owners operating in the health and wellness space. 10 Topics over 2 days, spots are limited!!

Whether you're a pharmacist, dentist, veterinarian, or any other clinician, critical management and leadership skills will help you strengthen your practice so you can focus on better serving your community. Walk away with business knowledge, skills, confidence, and numerous supporting tools and templates to help you implement best practices in business and leadership in your practice.

  • Learn about the strategy schools of thought, value-based healthcare, and the importance of differentiation in your practice. Walk away with an easy to implement strategic analysis framework you can use to build and implement a solid strategy in your practice.

  • We have all heard the saying "You cannot take care of others if you do not take care of yourself first". In this workshop we explore ways to 'lead self' through purpose and strengths-based leadership, how to maximize productivity, stay engaged in your work, and avoid burnout.

  • Businesses and practices in Canada are being judged on more than just their bottom line, products, and services. We will explore the concept of quadruple bottom line (people, planet, profit, and purpose) as it relates to clinical practices and community-based businesses. Explore ways you can become more socially sustainability and adopt corporate social responsibility practices.

  • Whether launching a new service or undergoing a renovation - learn how to use project management skills and frameworks to help ensure your projects are a success! Develop confidence across ten key project management knowledge areas including risk and quality management and walk away with tools to support your next project!

  • Explore partnerships, alliances, interprofessional practices, techniques for practice-based best practice sharing, and community engagement. Learn the benefits and strategies around building a personal advisory board and how to create your custom networking plan.

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  • Dive into theory and best practices in collaborative leadership, mentorship, and coaching in healthcare. Engage in active learning and take away tools and techniques to adopt a coach approach in your workplace. Each participant will receive a personal EQi-2.0 Emotional Intelligence Report and an hour of one on one follow up coaching with a certified coach to set you on a transformative leadership path.

  • Operations encompasses the day to day activities that make your practice's strategy come to life. We will cover best practices in operational efficiency, capacity, processes, key policies and procedures, and more!

  • Gather best practices in patient retention and loyalty and learn to assess patient relevancy and value. We share techniques and strategies to ensure exemplary patient experiences exist in your practice.

  • Explore the metrics and key performance indicators every practice owner should measure, review, and act upon. We cover qualitative and quantitative metrics and the analytical strategies and tools you can use to track and review important metrics in your business.

  • A packed introduction to key human resources practices every practice owner should adopt. This session is complete with info, tools, and techniques on organizational culture, equity, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, managing people, navigating difficult conversations, and implementing physical and psychological health and safety standards in your practice.

Testimonials

  • As an aspiring business owner, I found the Healthy Business series to be extremely helpful and informative. I now walk into the pharmacy with a completely different outlook and feel much more confident in decisions that I make from a business standpoint. Amy is so friendly and knowledgeable and I felt very engaged in each of our weekly sessions. Whether you are new to business ownership, or have been at it for years, I feel you will definitely gain something valuable from this series.

    - Carmen Fotheringham, Pharmacist

  • Amy's class was informative and well structured. Each week was organized with simple pre-work and thorough tollow-up resources. The content was easy to follow and challenged us to evaluate and think about our business in constructive ways. Participation in each class, as much as possible, was strongly encouraged and really helped to make the classes even more intormative by learning from fellow business owners. Each week you will leave the class with at least one strong nugget of knowledge you can use in your business. Amy was able to tailor the class to many ditterent businesses and protessionals. Thank you Amy for giving us some of the added tools we need to start structuring our future big picture planning goals!

    - Mark and Beth, Owners, Lab Health Physio

  • Thank you Amy for a wonderful 10 weeks of the Healthy Business Workshop Series! You touched on every aspect of the business to consider! So many things I had wished I had known before getting into my business. Thank you for all the wonderful resources and links that you provided. They are excellent resources. I loved the way the course was designed. I would highly recommend the course to any business owner.

    - Pauline Martin, Owner Neuromotion Physiotherapy + Rehabilitation

  • In anticipation of business ownership, which was only a few months away, my mind was buzzing with ideas, information, hopes, dreams, worries and fears. What I needed was direction, motivation and support, and I received all of that and more in the Healthy Business course by Amy Oliver. Thank you Amy for helping me to plant my roots, now it is time to watch this business grow.

    - Valerie Millette, Owner, Equi-Tech Veterinary

  • The Healthy Business workshop series was even more comprehensive and enlightening than I had imagined it would be. The workshops are jam-packed with practical takeaways, opportunities for personal development and inspiration. It is the ultimate business boot camp to level up and become a more effective leader in your community.

    - Dr. Stephanie Van Deynze-Snell, Owner, Central Veterinary Services

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The sessions are 3 hours per week, live and virtual. There are 5 sessions in total. Click on the registration button above for specifics on dates and times of the next session.

  • We deliver all sessions live over Zoom and hope that all participants make an effort to attend in person as best practice sharing, perspective sharing, and interaction are key components of the series format. On the odd occasion, if someone must miss, we will record and share a link to the video directly with that participant.

  • The series is geared towards anyone who owns or manages a practice or business in the health sector or who aspires to in the future. We have also had participants from health-related non-profits and member-based organizations looking to expand their business knowledge and best practices as well. Past participants have included pharmacists, physicians, veterinarians, physiotherapists, health-related board members, fitness program instructors, clinical consultants, leaders of health-related associations, non-profits, and more!

  • Each week there is a short pre-work reflection document (~15 min) so that you can come prepared to share your best practices and experiences with the group. After each session, you are provided with a workbook and a number of tools and templates so that you can apply what you learn in your practice. We are open to discussing your plans with you for guidance but no submission of work is required. You will get out of this series what you put into it.