The Top Practices Summit opens with an information-packed, high-energy session led by Top Practices Founder and CEO, Rem Jackson, and the most successful Top Practices doctors. Your chosen profession is a key to achieving prosperity, which is something much greater than success. Operating a podiatry practice (or any small business) is not for the faint of heart. There are great challenges facing everyone (not just podiatrists). In fact, the failure rate is staggering for small business startups in the first five years. Podiatry practices typically don’t fail at anywhere near this rate, but thriving is a very different situation than surviving and struggling day-to-day. Why then, do a small few of us seem to thrive and love our work while most of us just can’t break the cycle and are left with too much work, too little time, too much stress, and burnout?

There are answers. There are strategies, tools, and tactics that will forever allow you to build an incredible team and reclaim your personal life while earning significantly more money.

In this opening session, Rem and Top Practices doctors who have “cracked the code” share how you can accomplish all of this. It all starts here. You CAN do this.

Be sure your travel plans make it possible for you to be in your seat and ready when the conference opens at 5:30 PM. This is one of the most anticipated sessions at the Summit and will set the pace for your next 12 months.

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote Address: Dan Buettner

THE BLUE ZONES OF HAPPINESS

What makes us happy? Most people are misguided or just plain wrong. Living our best life involves optimizing how we evaluate our life, how we experience it from day-to-day and how to live out our purpose. Using stunning National Geographic photography, Dan offers an evidenced-based, long-lasting strategy to set up your life to live your happiest life.

Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world – dubbed blue zones hotspots – where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.

Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.

In his new book The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner returns to Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all-new Blue Zone—the first man-made Blue Zone yet explored.

Buettner also holds three Guinness World Records in distance cycling.

TRACK ONE

Top Practices Protocol Workshop

8:30–9:30 The audience will collaborate with a presenter and a panel to discuss, model, and improve comprehensive clinical protocols for top diagnoses.

The Best Ancillary Services and Products Review

9:30–10:00 A complete review of favorite ancillary and cash services being used by our doctors to increase outcomes while contributing to high revenue and profits.

How to Successfully Hire and Onboard an Associate Doctor

10:30–11:15 No relationship is more critical to succeed than the relationship between employer doctor and employee doctor. When it works, it’s superb for everyone involved including your staff, patients, and families. When it struggles, it makes everything much harder than it needs to be. Learn how top practices hire and onboard their associate doctors and duplicate this success in your practice so everyone can win.

How to Prepare for Your Exit and Retirement

11:15–12:00 The best time to prepare for your eventual exit and retirement is the day you open your practice. The second-best day is today. Top Practices has supported dozens of doctors who successfully sold their practices for top dollar and retired on their terms. Learn how you can prepare for your exit and retirement.

The Top Practices Scripting Workshop

1:30–2:10 Professionals script everything - amateurs “wing it.” Top producing doctors “say it” in specific, detailed, language that clear up confusion and create acceptance and compliance for their treatment plans. We will explore how to script everything and get your staff onboard too.

Top Practices Doctor Mastermind Session

2:10–3:00 This is the final mastermind roundtable of the Summit where we clear up all questions. Simply the most valued time at the Summit every year. Don’t miss it.

How to Hit the Ground Sprinting on Monday and Make the Next 12 Months Your Best Ever

3:00–3:30 Rem brings everyone together for a final message and strategy-filled final session.

TRACK TWO

Medical Staff Workshop

8:30–10:00 Track two opens with a sharp focus on your staff and how they can most effectively contribute to the practice’s success and enjoy their work to their fullest.

Your First 10 Years

10:30–12:00 New practitioners and their staff have very different challenges and hurdles to overcome than doctors who are in maturing practices. In this session we dig deep into the challenges faced in the first year, the first five years, and the first 10 years in practice. Your staff is critical to this success and all staff will benefit from this session. Get this right at the start, so everything becomes much easier later.

The Podiatry Practice A-Team

1:30–2:10 Your staff needs to be at this session as we demonstrate how some teams seem to work like a well-oiled machine enjoying serving patients, and others struggle with confusing priorities and lack of clear focus. Everyone should LOVE coming to work—even on Monday morning. Find out how everyone on your team can experience this.

Top Practices Staff Mastermind Session

2:10–3:00 This is the final mastermind roundtable of the Summit where we clear up all questions. Simply the most valued time at the Summit every year. Don’t miss it.

How to Hit the Ground Sprinting on Monday and Make the Next 12 Months Your Best Ever

3:00–3:30 Rem brings everyone together for a final message and strategy-filled final session.

TRACK THREE

The Anatomy of a Phone Call

8:30–9:10 When your phone rings, the key objective of anyone answering your phone is to make an appointment. In this session we will explore the 3 phases of a phone call. 1) Rapport Building 2) Information Gathering 3) “Making the Sale” - scheduling the appointment. In addition, we will share specific techniques for managing the phone call.

How to Shoot Your Own Video – Step-by-Step

9:10–10:00 Very few aspects of marketing in 2023 rise to the level of videos. And we need lots of videos. In this session our doctors who are shooting their own videos explain how you can easily shoot your own videos so your patients can benefit and you can profit. Let’s do this!

Apps, Online Tools, Websites, Blogs, Podcasts, and More…

10:30–12:00 This session will be the best mastermind session you’ve ever attended in which we share tools, apps, websites, blogs, resources, podcasts and more that marketers are using to raise their game, make things easy, and explode the practices patient volume. Bring your favorite tool – we want to see it!

Top Practices Marketing Mastermind Session

1:30–3:00 This is an expanded final mastermind roundtable of the Summit for marketers where we clear up all questions. Simply the most valued time at the Summit every year. Don’t miss it.