Speaker: Susan Spear - SAS Transitions

Location:  PDA Educational Center (click here for directions)

Course fee:  $195 Doctor / $75 Team Member

Continental Breakfast & Lunch will be provided

Course Details:
                               If You Own a Practice - YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION!

Designed exclusively for Dentists, this seminar shows you everything it takes to transition your practice!

Whether you are ready to sell now, considering an associate buy-in or buy-out, or even years away from exiting your practice, this seminar will help you plan for that eventual day.

During this "interactive" seminar, you will learn:

• The Difference Between a Practice Transition and a Practice Transaction
• Your Options for Transitioning Your Practice; Associate/Partnerships, Buy-ins to Buy-outs, Direct Buy-outs, Reverse Role Buy-outs and more!
• How to Create a Customized Transition Plan that Works for You
• Contingency Planning in Case of Unexpected Disability or Death
• What Happens to You After You Exit Your Practice
• What to Tell Your Staff
• Practice Market Trends and How They Affect Value
• Inexpensive Ways to Increase VAlue
• What Buyers Want
• How to Find a Buyer
• Practice Financing Options
• Preparing for the Sale
• Real Life Examples

Hands-on break-out sessions for designing your transition plan and estimating the value of your practice.

Susan Spear - SAS Transitions/Medical Practice Brokers, Inc.

Susan Spear is owner of SAS Transitions, a national practice transition company and also licensed broker with Medical Practice Brokers, Inc., a national brokerage firm for dental practice sales and buyer assitance.  Susan brings over 30 years experience in dentistry to transitioning both private and commercial dental practices throughout the United States.  She has been specializing in transition throughout the United States.  She has been specializing in transition consulting since 1995 and opened her own transition consulting firm in 2001.  she has helped hundreds of dentists and their teams move through the transition process effectively and smoothly.  Susan believes that there is a major difference between transitioning your dental practice and simply completing a sales transaction.

Susan is a requested speaker, author of many journals and book articles, including Dental Practice Report, MDDS Articulator Magazine, Tojan Today, Standard Operating Procedures for Dentists - SOPs! By Marsha Freeman & Associates, and ADMC's Powerful Practice Volume 2.  She is an experienced group facilitator and accomplished dental educator, currently holding an associate faculty position in the Continuing Education Department at the University of Colorado School of Dentistry.