Practice with Honor...more than Practice Building.

Suzanne Robinson is the President and CEO of Practice with Honor, a Dental Practice Building and Staff Training consultancy for dental professionals.  She has spent 35 years in business management, with the last 25 focused on the dental practice.

At 18, Suzanne took a job as a clerk with the Lawson Companies in Ohio, where she was raised.  Within months, she was promoted to a management position, and learned the nuts and bolts of running a business – profit and loss statements, ordering, scheduling, marketing, human resources and more. At 19 she was promoted to corporate general manager of training, for new franchisees in the food industry.

In England, at age 27, Suzanne found herself in the dental assistants chair for the first time via the Air Force clinic at Upper Heyford.  To take advantage of the program, she committed to a minimum of 1000 hours as a volunteer dental assistant.  With this, she was gifted the same training as the Air Force men and women, to include all manuals and testing.  After 3 years, she returned to the states and realized she missed the reward of running a business.  She went into practice management/administration.

Suzanne's human resource skills have been cultivated during her 34 years of business management, small business management and psychology courses and ongoing study of human behavior and communication.  She has learned from her chosen mentors in the dental and business industries, including Dick Barnes DDS and Raleigh Pinsky marketing and promotions expert Zig Ziglar.

A Certified Life Coach, Suzanne offers further, unique skills to the struggling practice, or one, which simply strives to achieve more.  Life coaching works best with relatively healthy people who wish to improve their lives in specific areas.  The intensive life-coaching program through the Southwest School of the Healing Arts provided Suzanne the tools that enhanced her relationship and communication skills, which have helped dentists and their TEAMS to challenge themselves to be the best they can be.  

What can you expect from a Dental Practice Consultant who is also a Certified Life Coach?  You can expect to deepen your self-understanding; gain understanding of how to create a successful life; find and develop healthy relationships (choose the right employees); cease procrastinating tendencies, work on stress and time management, goal setting, and creating action plans; and with all these things, take your business to new levels!  

Suzanne has assisted many dentists and their TEAMS in practice building, getting new patients in the door, overcoming unprofitable behaviors, resolving staff related issues and much more with her coaching, both in person and over the phone. 

Life coaching differs from therapy in that the focus is more on the present and future than the past, more on goals and behaviors than emotions and emotional patterns.  Life coaching can help lead you and your TEAM members to a more balanced, productive, and thus happier place in life.  This new life will better reflect personal values and priorities.  As a Dental Practice Consultant, Practice Builder, Staff Trainer and Life Coach, Suzanne Robinson is uniquely suited to assist practices and practice leaders in moving forward, faster. 

Suzanne Robinson is also a published author and columnist:

2002 - Dental Fee Plan printed her first article on increasing case acceptance.

2003-2006 - She became a featured, bi-monthly writer for an online magazine called The Soko, as well as a featured Q & A columnist on relationships.  A few of her articles are:

 Success: Define it and Achieve it

Getting it Done in The Soko

Be In Control Without Being A Control Freak (First Published On Line at The Soko)

How To Collect On A Loan To A Friend

Getting it Done in The Soko 

How To: Deal With Change

Let's Get Personal in The Soko

How to Get Organized for the Holidays

Happy Holidays in The Soko

How To: Stop Making Excuses

Pros & Cons in The Soko

Suzanne Robinson also lectures:

1993 - 1996  - Suzanne lectured on a monthly basis with AWEE (Arizona Women’s Employment Education), speaking on personal and professional growth, including how to become the ideal employee.  She was also a guest lecturer with local professional groups and the local county courts, speaking primarily on relationship building.

2003 – Suzanne led a workshop in Florida at the office of Dr. Diane Wright, Senior LVI advisor, on how to live and work with honor to enhance the overall patient and staff experience. 

Suzanne is an avid volunteer, giving her time, knowledge and skills to many different organizations since 1993. Her present volunteer effort is with CASS Dental Clinic for the Homeless in Phoenix, AZ, with which she’s been intimately involved since 2006.  She is using her expertise to assist the clinic to increase profits through marketing, promotions and practice strategies that are moving the nonprofit organization toward becoming a self-supporting entity. Recently, she acquired a free website and hosting arrangement for the clinic through Officite. Check out www.cassdentalclinic.org.