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People Leadership for Animal People

Every lost manager costs you approximately 1/3rd of their salary just in recruitment, down-time and team productivity. Can you afford NOT to invest in them?

Do you have great people, but who went straight from technical do-er to being expected to know how to lead teams and make decisions, without any real structure?

Or maybe you want to make sure you set your new hires up for success? They might be from outside the industry, or they might be recently promoted from colleague to supervisor.

Have aspiring leaders that you'd like to reward for their commitment and set up for a succession plan?

This is the perfect programme for you.

This is the programme that is going to not just enhance your team skills, but evolve your business too!

Join other veterinary leaders and aspiring leaders on a practical, actionable, real-world leadership programme for veterinary professionals

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As an experienced veterinary leader and leadership consultant, one of the most common challenges we hear from senior leaders and corporate Boards is that even though they have a clear vision for how things should work in their clinic, it just isn't being delivered that way.

 

This is because we forget to provide adequate training and support to those in the middle; the people who actually have to deliver your vision. The disconnect between your intentions and the actual delivery sits with your managers and supervisors, most of whom get thrown so far in the deep end that it's a miracle they last six months.

 

But if we want to help them stop treading water, we have to build them a boat. Let's set our new and middle managers up to succeed, so that they can help our organisations thrive, not just survive.

But all the other courses are either generic, academic management theory that doesn't work with real people and strong emotions, or it's delivered by a demographic that doesn't reflect or understand the challenges faced by a vast proportion of veterinary leaders.

​So we're offering something completely different. We'll work side by side to create useable, practical, actionable plans. We'll challenge beliefs and facilitate self-awareness, but we'll also take real steps forward each session, and talk candidly about what works and what doesn't.

WE PROMISE THAT BY THE END OF THE PROGRAMME:

You WILL feel more confident and competent to take on the challenging decisions and potential conflict of being a veterinary leader

You WILL have useful, practical, actionable templates, conversation scripts, project schedules and communication strategies

You WILL have increased your self-awareness and transformed your approach to leading people

You WILL see measurable results in your leadership skills that translate directly into business results

You WILL have a network of people in the same position, to bounce ideas and share challenges with

Over 12 months, you'll get:

6 jam-packed content sessions (face to face, online, or hybrid) with the wider group

Unlimited message support from colleagues and coach available throughout the whole programme

6 smaller cohort sessions (online) for workshopping, troubleshooting, practice and feedback

2 one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions to create your own leadership development plan

Self-assessment and personal feedback to help you grow as a professional and develop your leadership skills

Homework workbooks with ample practical, real-life ways to plan, track, and execute your transformation into the leader you want to be

Optional DISC Leadership profiles to better understand your style and why you clash with some people, including debriefing and pathways forward

Strong relationships with a small group of like-minded veterinary leaders who will become your biggest cheerleaders in the success of your team​

The Step By Step Programme

This isn't generic leadership training. This isn't academic text-book data on what should work if people were robots and made logical choices unrelated to emotions. This isn't fluffy and naive about the need for a return on investment.

This IS the programme that will finally give you the practical, actionable, guided steps to transform your veterinary leadership into emotionally intelligent, communication-driven leaders that people want to follow.

We'll meet in an exclusively small group 12 times over 12 months; half for content and delivery, half for troubleshooting, workshopping and holding one another accountable for actions between sessions.

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You'll be coached on a different topic each session, from self-awareness and your own leadership approach, to the pillars of cultural success, creating psychological safety (yours too!), and we'll even talk you through how to have the constructive conversations that need to be had to make this happen.

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Between sessions, you'll be creating and actioning a template of tasks, tools, changes and activities that you're going to put in place to truly transform your leadership. You'll also be given a 'buddy' to keep each other accountable and bounce ideas off between sessions.

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You get two personal coaching sessions, where we get to know your individual situation so we can cover the right content to help you, and you can call in the experts for specific challenges you're facing at a time of your choosing throughout the programme. You'll also have unlimited message access to a group of like-minded leaders and your expert coach, available to bounce ideas, pick brains, and ask questions as you go and issues arise.

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If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got...

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Testimonials

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"I am grateful for the role she has played in my professional development and would recommend her as a valuable mentor for any emerging leader.

As a mentor, Dr Jess was instrumental in supporting my development as a leader. With a supportive leadership style she challenged me to tackle my early career leadership challenges with courage and initiative. I credit Jess with developing and supporting leadership practices that have been key in my ongoing success in further management roles, not least of which the ability to evaluate my teams’ strengths and weaknesses with honesty and addressing difficult conversations."

—  Dr Anna, Animal Welfare Manager

Get to know me...

About your guide

Dr Jess Moore-Jones is a vet, coach, executive leader, solo mum by choice, and enthusiastic LARPer (don't feel bad if you don't know what that is).

She also considers herself to be a fulfilled career woman, an engaged and present mum, an ambitious business owner and an intrepid adventurer (yes, even with a kid). She's been General Manager of a specialist hospital, CEO of an RSPCA, Manager of Wildlife Health for Taronga Zoo, and Senior Advisor for local government. She's lectured vet students, coached vets, mentored leaders and challenged our industry bodies to do better.

Dr Jess started her veterinary leadership journey just like you; bright eyed and passionate about improving the industry for the colleagues she knew were struggling with negative cultures, untrained leaders, and a lack of proactive support systems. So she read everything she could, went to every training under the sun, tried to emulate all the 'best practice' advice she could get hold of. And yet, still things flailed. Positivity fluctuated, people resisted, staff attrition continued. And eventually she worked out that this is because everything she was doing was either from different industries, or was based on well-intentioned, academic advice that just can't hold up in the real world of emotions, finances, and human beings. Not to mention that as a female leader, she was judged by and held accountable to different yardsticks than all the people delivering leadership training.

So she set about trying things a different way. Getting results over following guidelines. Making things happen over 'best practice' advice. And THEN change started to happen. Cultures transformed before her eyes, people took accountability for their impact on the business. Teams started to play the major role in improving the business. It was hard work, there were definitely tears, and every new transformation throws up a new set of unexpected challenges, but now Jess has proved that stepping outside the academics of leadership and into the real-world of the veterinary setting, we can become the leaders we wanted to be.

And now she wants to use that journey, and the skills learned trying and testing and failing and trying again, to help you do the same. To improve the sustainability, wellbeing and fulfilment of our profession by helping animal people become great people leaders.

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Dr Jess would like to be there for you through the ups and the downs, the emotional turmoil and the thankless tasks, and help you become the leader you want to be.

You just have to be bold enough to start!

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Testimonials

"Really well presented - detailed enough to be comprehensive but also totally usable... Great knowledge of the presenter. I really loved it. Thank you."

—  Vetwest workshop series

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Investment

We know that you already know the return on investment for great leadership. That's why you're here right?

If we counted up all the time, money and resource spent on reactively leading your team, let alone what it is costing your business in terms of lower productivity and lower customer satisfaction, it would be easy to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to transform your leadership into what you know it could be.

Luckily, with this model, you don't have to! We wanted it to be accessible even (or especially) to small, independent clinics. Where owner-operators and passionate senior clinicians might not have the corporate equity funds behind them, but still want to build the leadership capacity of our profession. That's why we've created this programme; so that you can benefit from other leaders just like you as well as an experienced veterinary leadership coach and consultant.

For a 12 month transformation of your leadership skills and confidence, with 12 full sessions, 2 personalised coaching sessions and unlimited  digital support from your colleagues and coach, you can't afford NOT to invest.

All of that for only $2499

For an extremely limited time, you can have all of the above, including six 90 minute programme sessions, two personal coaching calls, and unlimited cohort messaging support, for only $2499* +GST

Think about how quickly you'd spend that sort of money on medications, on marketing, on technology, or on the time you spend every month managing a poor culture. It's less than a half day generic leadership course that wouldn't focus on the success of your organisation, wouldn't support you as an individual, and certainly wouldn't answer your worried messages at 8am when one of your staff throws a new spanner in freshly turning cogs...

​If you want change, make it happen today!

*Second manager from the same organisation is eligible for 20% discount off the full priced programme

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