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Hosted by Perrin DesPortes · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 111 episodes
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For dentists ready to grow from practice owner to business leader.You built a successful dental practice. You show up, you produce, and by every visible measure you have made it. But somewhere between your second hire and your hundredth patient, a new question started forming: what am I actually building toward?Maybe you are wondering whether to bring on an associate, add a second location, or finally have the partnership conversation you have been putting off. Maybe the practice runs well, but only because you are in it every single day, and that realization is starting to feel less like success and more like a ceiling.You did not go to dental school to become a business owner. But here you are, at the top of your own org chart, with no one above you to ask whether you are doing this right.Next Level Executive is a weekly podcast for dentists and dental practice owners who are ready to grow from clinician to CEO. Each episode goes deep on the leadership, ownership, and growth stra
Perrin DesPortes hosts Next Level Executive, a entrepreneurship show with 111 episodes published.
Why do so many successful dentists struggle to become even marginally effective CEOs? To be effective in a leadership role means you have to be able to create greater results through the work of your team, so is it “the
Many early-stage executives wonder whether they’re truly ready to be a leader. We talk about this “transition from Clinician to CEO” as if it were easy. It isn’t. And your mastery of clinical services no longer applies t
The late Peter Drucker has a timeless quote that you and I have probably referenced 1,000 times: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I’ve had enough unique experiences over 25 years to validate the truth in that state
Everyone talks about evolving from a clinician to a CEO. And nobody starts a business expecting to fail. However, every single one of us hits a point when our vision collides with reality then we discover the road to suc
To create a successful partnership means you must have the right Associate, but to have the right Associate means you have to recruit the right candidate. So…do you? I learned the hard way what failure looks like in term
As business owners, we owe it to ourselves to pick our trusted advisory team carefully. One of the areas of greatest opportunity is typically your dental supply company. There’s a chasm between good and great, and it’s m
Have you ever wondered why it is that after 15 years of ownership only around 2% of dental practices fail, yet industry experts indicate that between 50% to 80% of dental partnerships fail? The dental practice model is i
I get more questions about Associate Dentists wanting to become Partners than any other topic. It doesn’t matter if it’s the structure or a buy-in versus an earn-in or even how to actually bring them into ownership. Thes
Practically every Associate at some point wants to become a Partner, and most Founders want their Associate to become a Partner. But “time served” is for prison sentences – not ownership in a business. The reason most pa
One major difference that separates a great Clinician from a successful CEO is the ability to understand changing market dynamics while living through them. Timing can, in fact, be the make-or-break factor in your succes
Many Founder dentists have based their growth strategy on “scale for a sale.” If you’re one of them, you’re not going to like this episode. Today’s world of Private Equity-backed DSOs has become a house of cards when it
S3 E2: Your Biggest Career Risk – I'll Go First Everyone likes to talk about transitioning from Clinician to CEO, but nobody talks about what you actually have to do to make that a reality – let alone be effective in the
Next Level Executive is back — sharper, more focused, and built around the one conversation that almost no one in this space is willing to have with a practice owner who has already made it. If you have built a practice
All of us should aspire to own businesses that allow for entrepreneurial freedom when it comes to time, money, relationships and purpose. Ever wonder what that really looks like? I'm joined by two friends from the Execut
As I'm about to relaunch the podcast, I figured I'd share the episode you've downloaded the most, which is...My Own Personal Journey?! Well, judging by the number of downloads, it actually is. I went back and re-listened
As we roll through 2026, I will be sharing some interviews with a few curated company relationships. These are companies I know and trust, and people whose opinions I value. My intention is to share these collaborations
I've taken quite a few calls and had a lot of conversations recently that all seem to orient around metrics and benchmarks. Wondering if you're on the right track? Curious if your business is up to standard? Tune in for
To be effective, you have to improve your decision making skills. What happens when you get it wrong? Do you really understand the price you - and your team - are paying in terms of time, distraction and dollars? In toda
Being an Effective Executive of an emerging group practice is easy to talk about, but hard to accomplish. You're going to learn from two guys directly what it means. Dr. Nate Tilman and Dr. Dan Hostrander have each built
If it's one thing I've learned in my journey as an entrepreneur, it's that "certainty yields comfort, but uncertainty yields opportunity." That being said, I only realized it when I audited my personal and professional j
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Next Level Executive is hosted by Perrin DesPortes. The show is categorised under entrepreneurship (management) and has published 111 episodes.
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