Crown Council Mentor of the Month

MENTOR 20: Susan Pruitt "Community Marketing"

Susan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds a masters degree in education.  After more than 10 rewarding years of teaching she started following a new passion focused around marketing and sales.

She has successfully launched and worked for several companies in both direct sales and marketing positions.  She served on a national round table and won national awards for sales.  Her success in sales and focus on marketing brought her to Total Patient Service (ToPS).   

She currently works as the community marketer for six dental practices in the Dallas/Fort Worth market.  She focuses her energy on seeking out new ways to assist dental practices to increase the value they bring to their patients.

Susan actively serves her community by holding leadership positions in various charity organizations within Southlake, TX.  Susan has been married to William for 23 years and they have two beautiful daughters.

MENTOR 19: Rory Vaden "Procrastinate on Purpose"

New York Times best selling author and sales-performance trainer Rory Vaden brings his high-energy approach and can-do spirit to the most nagging problem in our professional lives: stalled productivity. Millions are overworked, organizationally challenged, or have a motivation issue that’s holding them back. In this Mentor of the Month, Rory Vaden presents a simple yet powerful paradigm that will teach us how to do our best work—on time and without stress and anxiety. 

MENTOR 18: Steve Anderson "Goals"

The beginning of a new year offers all of us the opportunity to focus on new efforts to get significant results in our work, our personal life and with our team.

In this Mentor of the Month you will find a winning formula for you and your team to not just set effective goals, but to actually achieve them. After all, the most critical aspect of a goal is not the knowing...it’s the doing.

Consider this an annual check-up. How are you actually doing in the area of establishing, acting on and reaching your goals?

MENTOR 17: Dr. Peter Barnett "20 Things That Have Made Me a Better Dentist"

Dr. Peter Barnett received his dental degree in 1977 and anMBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School ofBusiness in 1979. For 25 years Dr. Barnett used his education and broad knowledge of dentistry and business to helpgrow the Pearle Vision Centers dental practice division; theVoluntary Hospitals of America to develop the PhysicianHospital Organizations and later to help Prudential develop a new business model to fully integrate dental into thecompany’s medical insurance business.

In 1995, he became COO for United Dental Care, a dental benefits company and later went on to co-found HealthASPx, a third party administrastore - commerce business and Denex, a startup dental insurance company in the greater DC area.

After all of that, in 2003, Dr. Barnett left the corporate world to start his own dental practice Star Ranch Dental, in Plano, Texas where he practices today. 

MENTOR 16: Kevin Ames "Engaged or Disengaged"

Kevin Ames is the Director of Speaking and Training at O.C. Tanner, the world leader in developing employee recognition programs that help companies appreciate people who do great work. Kevin has been doing that for more than twenty years. He’s traveled the globe as a trainer and motivational speaker, entertaining and inspiring audiences from Washington, D.C. to Beijing. Kevin has successfully coached employees in some of the world’s biggest organizations, including Coca-Cola and American Express. He joins us as our Crown Council Mentor of the Month to help us discover how recognition can strengthen our people and thereby strengthen our teams. 

MENTOR 15: Steve Anderson "The Seven Pillars of Success"

The Crown Council is the source where leading dental practices turn for resources to continually Create a Culture of Success. In this exclusive Mentor of the Month program, Crown Council Co-founder, Steven J. Anderson outlines 7 Pillars of a Culture of Success and specific resources available only to Crown Council members to help build and strengthen each one. This program provides a roadmap for leading practices to be the most desirable practice to work for and the most talked about office in town. Listen and re-listen as you follow these easy to implement steps for building an even stronger Culture of Success in your practice. 

MENTOR 14: Dr. Terry Dickinson "The Future of Dentistry"

Our Mentor of the Month brings decades of experience and wisdom to dentistry both as a clinician and a thought leader. Dr. Terry Dickinson spent 30 years in private practice in Houston, Texas and then went on to spend 15 years as the Executive Director of the Virginia Dental Association where he has interacted with professionals, lobbyists, legislators and the business community from all over the country.

His background has given him the ability to see the dental profession and its future from a very unique vantage point. In this Mentor of the Month, Dr.Dickinson shares his perspectives on the future of the profession...helping us plan, project and be prepared for what is to come. He calls his presentation, “TheFuture of Dentistry....Survival is Optional.” 

MENTOR 13: Dr. Bill Williams "Marketing the Million Dollar Practice"

Over the last 38 years, Crown Council member Dr. Bill Williams from Suwanee, GA has practiced, lectured extensively, and engaged in numerous hours of humanitarian dentistry. At age 48, he “started over” with a scratch practice in a new town. Over the course of a ten year period of time, he added over $500,000 a year in production and created a premier practice producing nearly $6 million a year. Listen as Bill shares what he has done and how you can do the same.