No Limits XIV ConferenceAgenda
Aria Resort & Casino
3730 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Conference will be located in Juniper Ballroom 1 & 2, on the3rd floor
Thursday, March 1st
7:00-8:00Registration & light breakfast.
8:00-8:30John Christensen, MS– Founder & CEO, chrisad – Welcome introduction
8:30-9:30Dr. Nate Schott – Practice Owner, Murfreesboro, TN – This great 2-decade chrisad client recently accelerated his production towards $1.2 million a year…per chair. Nate NEVER sees patients! He recently opened a chrisad “scratch” office that enjoyed $403,000 production in its FIRST MONTH! He’ll show YOU how with pioneering new & proven scheduling, hiring & managerial concepts. Before chrisad, new patients were about 20/month. Now he sees 900+ new patients/mo. & production is now approximately $1.5 million/month…NOW with 1,500+ hygiene patients/month!
9:30-10:30Dr.Toussaint Crawford– Washington, DC Area– Just three years after opening his first practice, Toussaint recently opened a second officemoved from his original “scratch” location. He will discuss the training techniques he uses, including scripting, to get his team to buy into his systems & goals so everyone “rows in the same direction”.
10:30-11:00Waiting on confirmation from speaker
11:00-12:00Lunch
12:00-12:30Paul A. Saueressig – Vice President, Five Lakes Professional Services LLC – As Vice President a General Partner, Paul the team at Five Lakes created a proprietary software program that allows a dental practice to analyze distill relevant data, helping them to make informed objective decisions regarding their PPO plans. This number-crunching, data-driven focus provides independent perspective for helping dentists identify unlock opportunity, increase fees avoid common mistakes when establishing a strategic insurance plan for their practice
12:30-1:30Brent Simon–5 locations in New Jersey – Brent will talk about his experience opening multiple scratch offices, particularly how to expand profitably in a tough marketplace. He’ll discuss scouting locations & the amount of marketing he needs to do in order to have the practice he wants. Brent’s practices have been growing rapidly at over 20% & he has systems in place to monitor his practices’ success.
1:30-2:30Dr. Declan Devereux – Honolulu, HI – This thriving doctor will discuss how increasing staff engagement & implementing an extended schedule have come together to bring his practice incredible growth. The proof of his success with this strategy is in his numbers: where he once brought in as little as $90k/mo., he now sees over $750k/mo. in production. Declan is a highly productive client working out of only 8 chairs & is one of the few dentists in the country producing comparable numbers. Part of this success comes from how well he knows his staff: he knows who his employees are & leverages their best qualities.
2:30-2:45Break
2:45-3:45Andrew Gordon –Business Manager, 3 offices in Oregon –Andrew will talk about the cost vs. value of business experience & skills in a dental practice. His practices have 7-7 hours, are open Saturdays, get 100% on Shopper Calls, the three offices combined see 337 new patients/month, bring in $796k/month see 964 hygiene patients per month.
3:45-4:30Dr. Hibret Hailu Benjamin – San Francisco, CA – Dr. Hibret will discuss the challenges of growing a practice in an urban area, her initial reservations about direct mail marketing & what happened to her practice when she implemented chrisad’s suggestions.
Friday, March 2nd
7:00-8:00Breakfast
8:00-10:00John Christensen, MS — Founder CEO, chrisad — John has been uniquely effective in guiding U.S. & worldwide dental practices for 38 years. Chrisad clients grew by a combined approximately $1 billion in 2017 over 2016 & produced $6 billion. Based on his pioneering nearly 4 decades of dental practice & patient-consumer research & evidentiary data, unprecedented patient attitude & behavior studies, & visiting more dental practices in person than anyone in the world, John has grown more practices FAR larger & more rapidly than anyone. He’ll explain to you the NEW SECRETS & implications of chrisad/Northwestern University’s new 2017 consumer research findings, how to work fewer hours, care for more patients at a higher level & earn far more money!
10:00-10:30Dr. Walter Knysz III–Chief Operating Officer, Unified Smiles, Bloomfield Hills, MI –A Harvard-trained neuropsychiatrist with special expertise in collaborative teams working together in a healthcare setting, Dr. Knysz will discuss the traits of practices that live by No Limits, leading to growth, prosperity & profitability.
10:30-11:30Dr. Todd Bickling & Dr. Victoria Yu– Edgewater, MD –The doctors will discuss how to identify patient pre-disposition so you know what type of treatment plan to present. They’ll explain how to read your patient & look for cues in the words they use, unmasking who the patient is to determine what treatment plan is best.With chrisad, he grew two scratch practices to $720k/mo. in production with 256 new patients/mo. & 509 patients/mo. seen in hygiene.
11:30-12:30Lunch – Located in Juniper Ballroom 3 & 4
12:30-1:00Dr. Peter Grumbos–V.P. Business Development of Fastbraces®, Dallas, TX – This is a worldwide revolution in orthodontics! This is a patented, perfected…& stunningly effective NEW system of straightening teeth…at up to half the cost & half the time of yesterday’s ortho…using ASSISTANTS! Amazing results for you & your patients! Some clients start a case a day!
1:00-2:00Dr. James Turley, Dr. Chris Hirt & Rita Turley – Billings, MT – This fantastic client has been with chrisad since 1999. The team will discuss the why, how what to expect when opening a second practice location, which they recently did—10 chairs in the largest retail location in Montana! They see 400 new patients/mo., bring in $1 million/mo. see 1,176 hygiene patients/month.
2:00-2:15Break
2:15-3:15Dr. Hamilton Calder – Spring, TX – He'll be talking about what happened when he expanded his practice's hours (open 8–8 M–F open Sat). He’ll explain his different growth steps how his staff configuration (3-day work schedule) led to a new patient rate as high as 114, production at $328k 403 hygiene patients/mo.
3:15-4:00Malte Holm – CEO of Clinicas Dentales Sonrie, Guatemala – This enterprising client already has 10 clinics in & around Guatemala City. He will discuss automation & the tools he uses to manage a large dental workforce spread over multiple locations.
We’ve joined together with Unified Smiles & Treatment 24seven to host a welcome reception this evening from 6:30-8:30pm (located in the top & middle level of the GIANT chandelier at The Cosmopolitan hotel). Allow 15 minutes to walk from Aria. Feel free to bring your significant others!
Saturday, March 3rd
7:00-8:00Breakfast
8:00-9:00Dr. David Ahearn– Boston, MA area – Dr. Ahearn will discuss how to improve the productivity of your practice by viewing the operatory as a “manufacturing cell” of your practice. He’ll address creating more ergonomic delivery systems, making the op productive & inviting, sterilization & resupply systems & creating replicable staff training tools, all with the goal of understanding the productivity “pain points” that restrict practice growth.
9:00-9:45Dr. Izzy Naem – Chicago, IL – Dr. Naem will discuss how his practice has changed & developed after he moved to a bigger facility in a tough market. He’ll talk about how he has built up the roles & responsibilities of his team so he could stop micro-managing things himself. He has dropped all insurance plans & his team follows chrisad recommendations closely.
9:45-10:30Dr. Sigurd Enoksen – Dallas, TX –Find out how this exceptional practice owner keeps staff turnover low using incentive systems & how he monitors his numbers using metrics he’s identified himself. In particular, he keeps a close eye on each doctor’s production by monitoring his or her production per exam. He has grown his practice from 30 new patients/mo. up to 183/mo. & his production from $77k/mo. to $505k/month
10:30-10:45Break
10:45-1:00Justin Coke – Practice Owner, San Antonio, TX, 7 to 7 Dental –Before chrisad, this outstanding practice owner’s new patients were only 64/mo. Now they see 1,550 new patients/mo. growing! Justin will give a walkthrough of the entire patient experience at his practices, including the highly sensitive & decisive treatment planning stage.
Mandy Dennis – Hygiene Director, San Antonio, TX – As 7 to 7 Dental’s hygiene director, Mandy will talk about how to run a successful assisted hygiene program from the hygienist’s perspective.
Bobby Hansen – Director of Treatment for 7 to 7 Dental & CEO of Treatment24seven – He will talk about the treatment planning process they have found most successful, including how to get people to say yes & why it’s absolutely necessary to track dentistry & offer financial solutions to every patient!
1:00-2:00pmWorking lunch – panel of speakers with Q & A – End of the conference