Crown Council Mentor of the Month

MENTOR 24: Bryant Truitt "Protect Your Practice Assets"

CEO Bryant Truitt leads the Brytan & Associates professional team of IT, HR, coding, legal, & investigative experts who work with owners of dental and medical practices in the US and Canada. They assist those concerned about possible profitability problems due to fraud, embezzlement, waste & abuse. 

Mr. Truitt is a well-known healthcare management speaker for for-profit and nonprofit dental and healthcare professionals as well as legal and law enforcement organizations, and has published white papers on major profitability issues including identification and prevention of fraud, embezzlement, waste and abuse.  He is a Crown Council Mentor this month as he talks to us about protecting our practice assets.

MENTOR 23: Dr. David Penner "Secrets of Making Relationships Work with Patients, Team and Family"

Dr. David Penner is a licensed clinical psychologist and is the Clinical Director of The Gottman Institute. He is the author of the Leader’s Guide for Teaching the Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, which is based on years of experience teaching John Gottman’s Seven Principles book. He has trained therapists in the Gottman Method in North America, Asia and Europe and is the co-developer of the Gottman Seven Principles Program.

David has practiced for over 30 years as an individual and couples therapist, working in private practice, university, mental health and hospital settings and he is our Crown Council Mentor of the Month.

MENTOR 22: Marcy Schwartzman "20 Things That Have Made Me A Better Dentist"

Dr. Marcy Schwartzman graduated from University of BritishColumbia Dental School in 1984. She continues to practice in a family general dentistry practice that she began from bare walls and no patients. This month she celebrates 30 years of serving great patients and working with a great team. She has been involved in many volunteer opportunities within her community and has served as the International President of the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity in 2013 (only the second woman ever to have done so). She is looking forward toAugust of this year where she will be inducted into the RoyalCollege of Dentistry in St. John’s Newfoundland . She is the mother to two great children, Max and Leatt, and is still having fun every day with her husband Larry even after 32 years. 

MENTOR 21: Barbara Freet "What You Need To Know About New Changes In Employment Law"

Barbara Freet has over 25 years’ experience in the related fields of selection and hiring and human resource consulting.  Currently she is President of the 25 year old consulting firm of Human Resource Advisors, and concurrently was President of Personnel Resource Network, a search firm specializing in executive recruiting. Today, HR Advisors has clients in all 50 states. The company has long-term employees with Director-level HR and recruiting experience and offers its products and services on its website at www.humanresourceadvisors.com. Barbara has been a trusted Crown Council Resource Partner for over a decade and is the absolute “go-to” resource for Crown Council members and their Human Resource needs. 

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.