Business Solutions for ECPs: Recent Episodes
eyeTHRIVE Contributors
Dr. Jennifer Stewart visits with Dr. Jens to discuss how stress and burnout is impacting ODs and healthcare workers in general. She shares strategies she uses to avoid burnout while juggling a busy career, keeping up with her family, building a professional consulting business, and staying healthy.
Dr. Steve Vargo, an eyeTHRIVE contributor describes his journey from practitioner to consultant, author, and speaker.
Lynn Lawrence, MsOL, takes us on a deep dive into why leadership is so important to success in any field. He shares the path that led him to pursuing formal leadership training and how he helps practices build and nurture leaders to transform their businesses.
Nationally renowned speaker and educator, Valerie Manso, shares her "three great passions" in eye care, and how she manages to combine them in her professional career as a lecturer , consultant and product rep.
Dr. Tim Nichols, creator of "The Efficient Practice," shares some of the most important lessons he's learned about community, leadership, and working with people in 40 years of practice.
Dr. Ron Meeker has been gaining exposure as the author of the weekly "Meeker Minute," published on the eyeTHRIVE platform. He's a firm believer in the concept of constant improvement, in small steps. We sat down for a chat with Dr. Meeker to ask him about how he achieved success in his practice, and how others can benefit from his experience.
Dr. Ryan Gustus discusses the unique challenges of coming into a legacy practice early in his career, and how he and his partners have approached the task of making improvements in the business. His success with contact lens sales led him to found LensQuote, and begin consulting with other business owners to help them achieve success as well.
As a lifelong athlete, I wanted to find a way to combine my love of sports and athletics with a career. Sports and performance vision is an incredibly rewarding field that allows me to follow my passion and turn that into a sustainable business that continues to grow and change. Within optometry, we are fortunate to have many ways to do this – even if sports isn’t your passion! While it took me a decade to realize my dream, I have learned a lot along the way. As a Disney fan, one of my favorite quotes is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” I’d add that you can dream it, plan it, analyze it and think it- and then you can do it (and continue dreaming, planning, etc)!
Whether it be a sports vision practice, adding dry eye treatments, embracing myopia management or looking to make an optometry practice more successful, taking your dream and adding a plan, metrics, elbow grease and patience can go a long way towards making you more successful.