David Murdoch will discuss colonic diarrhoea.

David worked as a lecturer in Internal Medicine in the Small Animal Departments of Glasgow and Liverpool Universities. For the last few years, he has been in Practice seeing both First Opinion and Referral cases in Gastro-Enterology and is a recipient of Blaine Award. He has lectured extensive in the UK and Europe and has contributed to several text books.

Danièlle Gunn-Moore will discuss mycobacteria in cats.

Danièlle Gunn-Moore graduated with Distinction from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, in 1991. After a year in small animal practice she joined The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, initially as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar, then the Duphar Feline Fellow, and completed a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis in 1997. After a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic. She is now Professor of Feline Medicine and Head of Companion Animal Sciences. She is interested in all aspects of feline medicine; she is an internationally recognised expert in her area, lectures extensively and her work has been published widely. In 2009 she was awarded the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contribution in the field of small animal veterinary medicine, and in 2011 she was awarded the International Society for Feline Medicine / Hill’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine. She shares her home with her husband Frank and two beautiful cats; a 13 year old Bengal girl called Teaninich and 7 year old Maine Coon boy called Mortlach (both named after Scottish single malt whiskies).

Alison is a well-known and thought provoking speaker.

Following qualification as a veterinary surgeon from Liverpool University (last century!) she entered practice and worked in Small Animal practice for several years prior to leaving to pursue a business career first with Hills Pet Nutrition and then MARS.

As founder and managing Director of Onswitch she and her  team are constantly provoking new thoughts and ideas for the animal care professions in their relationships with the consumers who have cared for animals in their lives.

Anthony Chadwick will discuss how to do Dermatology in Practice

If you’re a Vet Clinic owner or manager and you LOVE the idea of a steady flow of new clients coming into your practice each week of the year – but you HATE the idea of having to “sell-sell-sell” then this session is for you.

Dr Jane Armstrong will discuss Feline Hepatic Lipidosis.

 Dr. Jane Armstrong is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada. Following a year in private practice, she completed an internship at the University of Illinois, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a Master’s degree at Michigan State University. Dr. Armstrong was a faculty member at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine for 7 years before moving to the University of Minnesota. She completed an MBA at the Carlson School of Management in 1999. She is now a Professor in the Veterinary Clinical Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests within small animal internal medicine include clinical nutrition, especially obesity, and gastrointestinal diseases. Dr. Armstrong holds board certification in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She is a recent past-President of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Small Animal) and the Comparative Gastroenterology Society, and is a member of the WSAVA Liver Standardization Group.

This webinar examines how to successfully hit your targets!

Nancy is a physics graduate and spent the first ten years of her career working in the electronics industry. Initially, she worked as a Manager progressing up to Director level. After eight years as an independent consultant, she got tired of book-keeping and answering phone messages, so she started Vinehouse.

Nancy has notched up over 20 years experience in the communications field. As a successful author she has written ‘Difficult People Made Easy’, the eZine, ‘Challenging People’ and has also designed the ‘Difficult People Calculator’.

Nancy is an exciting and inspirational speaker guaranteed to engage and stimulate your audience. She personally coaches over 100 people every year and presents and trains groups all over the UK, as well as Europe and the US. She has the skill to take complex situations, show you what’s going on, and then deliver straightforward strategies for dealing with them.

Dr. Diederik Gelderman will examine how effective a veterinary leader you really are.

Dr. Diederik Gelderman BVSc, MVS graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours in 1977. He established Greenhills Veterinary Hospital in 1990 and transformed it into a burgeoning regional Veterinary Hospital servicing the wider Hunter Valley, winning many Australian Veterinary as well as non-Veterinary customer service awards.  He began his Turbo Charge Your Veterinary Practice seminar series in 2004, expanding internationally to Hong Kong, New Zealand, Europe and the US.  He sold his own practice in order to be able to concentrate full-time on his passion of helping Veterinary Practices achieve excellence. Dr. Gelderman has coached and consulted with over 350 small to medium enterprises in a diverse range of industries. He is also a certified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer.

This webinar focuses on getting the best from your team through motivational performance management

Helen Frewin is a people performance specialist and Chartered Occupational Psychologist. In plain English that means she’s a good person to talk to about people’s behaviour and performance at work.

She has worked across public, private and not for profit sectors advising and working in-house to deliver people at their best.

With a passion for great customer service, a lot of love for her cat (and the vets that care for him) Helen is keen to see her experience used to benefit veterinary practice.

This webinar will examine new ways of working using collaborative business models for the new economy.

Alan qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in Australia and has over 25 years experience in practice in the UK and Australia. He has run his own mixed multi-branch practice for 12 years in the UK and studied for a Diploma in Management. Since then he has worked as a consultant in the areas of technical service, training, product development and marketing for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry and has successfully delivered coaching and management consultancy in electronics, pharmaceutical, global retail and veterinary industries. He started veterinary business development in 1995 in response to a need within the veterinary industry for a more integrated approach to practice management and marketing, utilising his skills as a vet and independent practice management consultant.

Current projects in the veterinary market include benchmarking, seminars, CPD workshops and practice performance management.