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Since graduating as a Physical Education teacher in 1987, and then as a physiotherapist in 1990, Paul Wright opened multiple multi-disciplinary health clinics, closed a few, was locked out of one and sold some others.

Paul Wright is living proof this “Ultimate Health Business Lifestyle” is possible. At one stage he owned six successful Get Active Physiotherapy clinics in Australia, yet still spent more time at home than his wife preferred, never missed a school concert or sports carnival, and visited his clinics for only a few hours each week. While doing this he did not even live in the same city as five of his clinics!

Paul is now one of the world’s most sought after health business mentors and educators – and the author of the Amazon Best Selling Book – “How to Run a One Minute Practice”.

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One of the “Sharks” on Australian Shark Tank – who is a major investor and on the board of MyFootDr – the largest Podiatry provider in Australia.

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Since graduating as a Physical Education teacher in 1987, and then as a physiotherapist in 1990, Paul Wright opened multiple multi-disciplinary health clinics, closed a few, was locked out of one and sold some others.

Paul Wright is living proof this “Ultimate Health Business Lifestyle” is possible. At one stage he owned six successful Get Active Physiotherapy clinics in Australia, yet still spent more time at home than his wife preferred, never missed a school concert or sports carnival, and visited his clinics for only a few hours each week. While doing this he did not even live in the same city as five of his clinics!

Paul is now one of the world’s most sought after health business mentors and educators – and the author of the Amazon Best Selling Book – “How to Run a One Minute Practice”.

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A 2x finalist and winner of the Telstra Business Award, Daniel Gibbs specialises in systems – the kind that build, grow and sustain thriving clinics, just like his own at Posture Podiatry.

Today he works with businesses globally, from clinics large and small though the Clinic Mastery Business Academy, to $100M+ investment funds in the USA.

His favourite moments in life are with his young family, and he believes effective treatment starts even before a client walks through the door.

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Rem Jackson is the Founder and CEO of Top Practices, LLC, a company dedicated to helping professionals reach their full potential through innovative marketing, sales, management, and professional development programs. Rem has been guiding professionals and business leaders as a coach and trainer for over 18 years. He led the team that founded Classroom Connect, a high-tech company dedicated to helping K-12 educators integrate technology into their instruction. He contributed to the sale of Classroom Connect to Reed-Elsevier in 2001, and continued to serve as Vice President of Professional Development. At Classroom Connect, he led the development of seminars, conferences, custom professional development programs, and Web-based training. The programs he developed have been experienced by over 120,000 educators, businesspeople, and government leaders in North America and Asia.

Rem’s extensive experience in sales, marketing, and senior management in the areas of education, health care, and industry uniquely qualify him to lead the development and implementation of Top Practices’ proprietary products and services.

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Tyson E. Franklin is a Queensland University of Technology graduate and over the past 30 years has opened, sold, taken over and relocated well over 20 podiatry businesses.

He’s won numerous business awards, written two books, runs a weekly podcast show called It’s No Secret with Dr T., is a professional speaker and currently mentors small business owners on how to market their businesses and how to set up systems to support their marketing strategies.

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Troy started working in Toowoomba (Australia) in 2000 for a Podiatrist who was looking to retire. Driven and motivated to help people, Troy bought the practice in 2004.

Since then Troy and his business ‘The Podiatrist’ has grown from two Podiatrists to nine, three staff to 19, one fulltime clinic to three fulltime clinics plus 16 sessional sites across QLDs Darling Downs. The Podiatrist is one of QLDs largest and most successful Podiatry Clinics.

Realising that financial gain was a significant success, but knowing the ‘greatness’ of his business journey is the culture and family he has created at The Podiatrist, Troy’s priority remains his team and patients and all benefit as a result.

Troy and his team at The Podiatrist have a very clear ‘Why’ and through mentoring and The Podiatry Hive, Troy looks to help other Podiatrists define their ‘Why’…..

Troy believes there is a huge need in the Podiatry profession for growth and development in business and marketing, and is excited about helping others in a similar position to himself “raise the bar” for Podiatry in Australia and abroad.

Troy is a red wine, mountain biking, gym loving (but not all at the same time!) Podiatrist, based in Toowoomba and is married to Maree… Fun and life loving Troy and Maree have three beautiful girls and a boy.

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Jill first started working in marketing in 1988. Long before the Internet & before she had ever heard the word podiatry.

Since then she has worked in a number of marketing specific roles, trained as a podiatrist, worked as an associate, run her own private practice & taught podiatry (including the UK first podiatry business module).

She gained a Masters in adult training & education and started 5 different online & offline businesses in an attempt to find something that would fit with her nomadic life as a military wife, which has taken her to 3 continents, 5 countries & 12 homes in 16 years.

She feels she finally has it sussed in the form of Practice Momentum.

We (there are 5 of us now) provide virtual marketing training and done for you marketing packages for healthcare practitioners from around the world.

She love what she does, and sharing the power of good that marketing can have in the lives of practitioners, their families & patients, now feels like her life’s mission.

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Elizabeth is the principle podiatrist and owner of My Podiatrist – with 5 clinic locations across Melbourne, she manage & leads a great team from bookkeeper, HR, support admin, therapists & practitioners.

Her keen interests are mentoring new therapists, Developing policies & systems to improve efficiency & productivity in health. Also practicing podiatry & reaching patient goals with best outcomes for longevity & “pain free” lifestyles.

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Simon is a graduate of Adelaide University where he gained a Bachelor Degree in Science with majors in Physiology and Zoology.

His degree in Podiatry was gained at the University of South Australia. Simon holds postgraduate fellowships in Sports Podiatry with the Australian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine and in Sport Sciences with Sports Medicine Australia.

Simon has been an executive board member of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation and Past President of the Australian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, and remains the only podiatrist worldwide to ever hold a commission position with the International Sports Medicine Federation.

The website www.bartoldbiomechanics.com was launched in February 2013 and was born out of this massive repository of knowledge and resources. It has rapidly become the most trusted on-line educational resource for sports medicine and biomechanics available. Amongst the institutional members, are Midwestern University in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, and Fleet Feet Sports, the largest technical retail athletic footwear group in the USA.

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Christopher J. Milkie, DPM is a master at implementing systems, marketing execution, copywriting and profitability of your practice. He’s changing the Podiatry industry by helping the Independent Podiatrist thrive in any healthcare environment. Creating a business where the doctor focuses on extraordinary patient outcomes and the staff is “self-managed” is the model that leads to success.

He prides himself on the ability to help you reveal new possibilities and uncover hidden money within your practice, making your time more valuable.

Chris is the owner of Milwaukee Foot Specialists – one of the largest single location practices in America and is in the top 1% of income earners amongst podiatrists.

He is the author of multiple books including “The Podiatry Practice Shift” and “The Crazy Good Podiatry Practice Referral System” and the CEO of Podiatry Success Today – which helps Podiatry Business Owners from around the world grow their health business and live a life of business freedom.

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Tina has been a practice manager for 21 years. She lectures Nationally and Internationally on Practical Practice Management, specializing in Complete Practice Efficiencies, Team Building, Staffing issues, Manager Training and Practice Building Protocols. Tina has written over 400 articles on Practice Management.

For the past 13 years she has been the Educational Chair for the California Podiatric Medical Associations’ Assistant and Practice Management educational programs.

She is a past President of the American Society of Podiatric Medical Assistants and served on their board for 12 years.

She currently is doing private consulting, also teaching and consulting with Top Practices Virtual Practice Management Institute with medical offices throughout the U.S., using GPS – Global Practice Systems, to create the road map to get medical practices from where they are now to where they want to be in small achievable steps.

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Narelle graduated from the Sydney Institute of Technology in 1988 and Narelle has worked for other private clinics in Burwood, Newcastle and Cronulla and also at St George and Canterbury Hospitals.

She started Narelle Montgomery Podiatry in 1994 and has built up the practice so it is now the biggest in Sutherland and surrounding areas.

In 2014 she renamed the practice ‘Sutherland Podiatry Centre’ due to the change from a 1 person practice, to a team of dedicated Podiatry Professionals.

She has done multiple lectures in the Shire on foot care for Seniors and Carers. Narelle has been known to travel extensively for conferences and courses to enhance her podiatry skills (and we think her shopping skills!).

Currently as well as treating patients at this clinic she also shares her extensive clinical experience at the University of Western Sydney as a Clinical Supervisor.

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Greg graduated with B.App.Science Podiatry with Distinction from Queensland University of Technology in 1992, and took up private practice in Bulimba in South East Queensland.

In 2004 he co-founded, with Darren Stewart, my FootDr podiatry centres, Australia’s largest and most trusted podiatry group. This has now grown to incorporate 50 plus clinics across Australia and Asia.

In 2009 he co-founded Orthema Australasia, the exclusive Australasian distributors of the Swiss made Orthema CAD/CAM foot orthotic fabrication systems. Orthema is a complete, in house, turn-key orthotics.

This same year they founded Foot Care Solutions Australia, which distributes brands such as PinPointe FootLaser, KeryFlex, Podiatry Microscope, Amerigel, shUVee, Icy Feet, Diabetik Foot Care, Promed, Professional Podiatry Instruments, and many other premium foot care products.

Greg (with Darren Stewart) also co-founded TAG Brace Australia in 2013 and in 2014 the foot and ankle centric businesses mySandal, myPedorthist, Custom Cricket Shoes and myOrthotist Prosthetist.

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Craig likes to describe himself as a ‘University lecturer, runner, cynic, researcher, skeptic, forum admin, woo basher, clinician, rabble-rouser, blogger and dad’. Craig was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Podiatry at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Craig blogs at Running Research Junkie and skeptically at Its a Foot Captain, But Not As You Know It; he is the admin and regular contributor to Podiatry Arena.

He is the founder of Podiatry CPD Academy which features courses structured to take podiatrists through the selected topic, with regular checks on understanding of the concepts.

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Ben had an orthopaedic surgeon publicly humiliate him as a young podiatrist by what he said about the podiatry profession and as a result it became the catalyst for what he did next.

Let’s just say he became more interested in the person at the end of the foot than the foot itself.

It’s now resulted in Clinic Mastery where Ben and his team design and systemise personalised, engaging and memorable client experiences as a way for private practices to grow their clinic.

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Michael has played many roles in life already including an elite level basketball coach, primary school and high school teacher and business owner of 6 different businesses.

Today he is a prominent keynote speaker, author, connector, networker and known as the Referral Marketing Guru.

After becoming despondent with the school system he went out to create his first business in 2007 an education center, helping students one on one in their homes.

In 2010 he followed his passion of helping others into Marketing and quickly became known as the marketing guru through providing real life marketing solutions to businesses.

His Small Business Marketing Guru was sold in August 2013.

That took him to his real love and passion, helping others connect and become better networker’s to grow their referrals into their business.

Today he helps businesses to generate more leads and gain more clients through implementing a referral marketing system into their business.

He is the authority on Referral Marketing and his motto in life is simple: Look to help someone else before asking to be helped.

Co creator of the “Ultimate Health Business Referral System” with Paul Wright which has helped health business owners around the world increase referrals to their practices.

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Justin graduated from the London Foot Hospital in 1992 and specialised in biomechanics, gait analysis and musculoskeletal podiatry. He has worked with innovative practitioners in the fields of sports medicine, orthopaedic, physiotherapy, osteopathy and has worked with patients from recreational thru to international and Olympic level athletes.

Since returning to Ireland in 2003 Justin has grown podiatry.ie from a solo single location practice to a group of MSK podiatry practices focused on using a manual based therapy rather than the traditional orthotic based podiatry business model.

This has allowed Justin to reduce his own patient consulting time to focus on the marketing and operations of his business.

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Lorcan O Donaile is the Owner of the Achilles Foot Clinic and Keep Active Physiotherapy based in Cork Ireland.

After Graduating with degree in Podiatric Medicine from University College London and the London Foot Hospital he moved straight into private practice joining a small clinic back home in Ireland. In 2005 after a round the world trip with his now wife he moved to Cork to found Achilles Foot Clinic. In 2012 following deep frustration with the physiotherapy profession locally he started his own physiotherapy clinic Keep Active Physiotherapy.

Since then he has had a crash course in what it means to be a business owner as well as a medical clinician and, having made every classic mistake in business you can, has turned the clinic around to the point where he has doubled his profits in just over 12 months and can afford to cut his clinical hours to 10 per week.

This allows him the freedom to spend time with his wife and 4 small kids while his every increasing patient base are still given best practice medical care in a friendly environment by a team that understand exceptional customer service is everything.

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During an epic 32 years in business, Ted & Lil Jedynak built and successfully sold 5 clinics in Sydney, Gold Coast and Adelaide. They were winners of the Telstra Business Award.

Ted & Lil have been mentors and trainers of health practitioners globally for over 20 years.

In their retirement, Ted & Lil continue to be trainers and mentors but, due to high demand, are focusing on delivering excellent online trainings.

Ted & Lil are currently preparing for ‘L’avventura Italiana’ (aka Lil + Ted’s Excellent Italian Adventure).

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As CEO at The Hive, Jono Heath leads a team of professionals who are all intent on transforming practitioners into successful business owners.

He has presented business training workshops and webinars to thousands of private practice owners and believes passionately in helping people find the “why” in what they do, in both their business and personal life.

Jono has a particular interest in how to communicate the benefits of excellent healthcare.

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Matthew is the founder of 1Foot 2Foot Centre, America’s first integrated foot and ankle facility to include a comprehensive podiatry practice, medical spa and fashion comfort shoe store.

He is best known for his unique perspectives and for infusing his personality into patient care. As a faculty partner for Foot and Ankle Business Innovations, Matthew is nationally recognized for his expertise in practice management, office culture, personal and staff development and branding.

He is a pioneer in ancillary integration of retail and spa services in podiatric practices with extensive experience in practice growth strategies.

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Dr Peter Wishnie has been a practicing podiatrist for over 28 years and practices in Central New Jersey. He is the team podiatrist for Rutgers University and is board certified in foot surgery. In addition to being a podiatrist, Dr. Wishnie is a practice management consultant for physicians and therapists at the Virtual Practice Management Institute. He is also a John Maxwell Certified Leadership coach and has given numerous lectures on practice management and leadership.

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Brenden is the founder of A Step Ahead Foot and Ankle Care – a group of Podiatrist and other health professionals servicing the Sydney area.

Brenden is regularly used by Footwear companies as a sounding board for footwear development and Running shoe retailer for advice on developing relationships with the Podiatry profession as well as being the public face of Clarks children’s footwear brand.

He is a past senior vice president and board member of the Australian Podiatry Association and is well known for his high profile in the media.