Dental MBA
Mastering business acceleration indental practice ownership
Build the business behind the dentistry. A 12-month accelerator for practice owners who want clearer numbers, stronger leadership, better systems and a business that can grow without every decision depending on them.
- Length
- 12 months
- Intensives
- 6
- Group Zooms
- 4+
- Entry
- By application
Exclusive to PowerUp Residency alumni
YOU WERE TRAINED FOR DENTISTRY. OWNERSHIP IS ANOTHER PROFESSION.
Owning a dental practice can make you responsible for accounting, finance, HR, recruitment, rostering, stock, workflows, culture, performance, marketing, risk and strategy, sometimes before anyone has taught you how those pieces fit together.
Dental MBA brings those pieces into one operating picture. We work on the real business behind your clinical day so you can understand what is happening, decide what matters and build systems that keep improving after the session ends.
WHAT CHANGES WHEN THE BUSINESS GETS STRONGER
- You can read the numbers and spot problems earlier.
- The team knows what good performance looks like and who owns what.
- Recurring work is systemised instead of reinvented.
- Rosters, chairs and support are planned around capacity and demand.
- Growth decisions are based on economics and readiness.
- Additional locations can share an operating model without pretending every site is identical.
- Your own time shifts towards leadership, strategy and the work you choose to keep.
WHAT YOU WILL MASTER IN DENTAL MBA
Six pillars that turn a clinical day into a business you can read, lead and grow.
Numbers
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, budgets, forecasting, margins, overheads, collections, KPIs, break-even points, capital decisions and the numbers that tell you whether growth is actually creating value.
People
Values, leadership, hiring, interviewing, onboarding, remuneration thinking, role clarity, one-to-ones, performance management, difficult conversations, exits and building a management layer.
Systems
Patient workflows, SOPs, delegation, meetings, reporting, ordering, inventory, technology, access, hand-offs and reducing the recurring decisions that keep flowing back to the owner.
Operations
Rostering, chair utilisation, support ratios, demand, cancellations, capacity, clinical flow, room turnover, stock, suppliers and making the practice easier to run day to day.
Growth
Patient acquisition economics, conversion, retention, reactivation, new clinicians, equipment, extra chairs, financing, second-site readiness, multi-site reporting and knowing which constraint to solve next.
Optionality
Owner dependence, management structure, documentation, business quality, valuation, succession and building a practice you could keep, expand, partner, step back from or eventually sell from a position of strength.
HOW THE COURSE WORKS
Bring the real numbers. Bring the real problem. Leave with a decision, an owner and a next action.
Six Dental MBA Business Intensives
Six core sessions across the year give the group enough space to go deep, implement, measure what changed and return with better information. The content is structured, but the problems we spend time on are shaped by the businesses in the room.
At least four Implementation + Troubleshooting Zooms
Between sessions, group Zooms provide extra coaching and a place to bring the issues that only become visible once implementation begins. The purpose is to keep momentum and solve the real-world friction between knowing and doing.
PowerUp Masters included
Dental MBA members can also return to the PowerUp Residency through PowerUp Masters during the year. Business skill becomes more useful when the owner keeps strengthening communication, confidence, productivity, health and the personal foundations underneath their leadership.
Built around your practice
This is intentionally bespoke. A one-location owner working on profitability and team structure does not need the same emphasis as a four-location group trying to standardise reporting and leadership. We use the common curriculum as a foundation, then spend time where it can create the greatest value.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY
- You have completed PowerUp Residency.
- You own or lead a dental practice and want to improve the business as deliberately as you improve the dentistry.
- You are willing to know your numbers and confront problems early.
- You want systems and leaders that can carry more of the business.
- You are prepared to implement between sessions rather than only attend.
- You value a small, high-trust group where owners can speak openly about the realities of practice ownership.
EVERY LOCATION AFTER THE FIRST COSTS LESS.
Pricing is based on practice locations rather than chair count, because each location generally brings its own team, workflow, roster, financial performance and operational issues.
- First practice location
- $6,000 + GSTper month
- Base fee $6,000 + GST
- Second practice location
- $10,000 + GSTper month
- Adds +$4,000 + GST
- Third practice location
- $12,000 + GSTper month
- Adds +$2,000 + GST
- Fourth practice location
- $14,000 + GSTper month
- Adds +$2,000 + GST — and every additional location after that
Fees are per month and quoted per practice location, excluding GST.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Applications are open
BUILD THE BUSINESS YOU WANT TO OWN
Applications are reviewed for fit, readiness and cohort alignment.
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