Founding Cohort for Established Dental Professionals

Being a Great Dentist Isn't Enough.

When leadership doesn't work, the problems keep coming back to you.

At a certain point in your dental career, clinical expertise is no longer enough.

Now you're expected to lead people, set expectations, handle difficult conversations, hold others accountable, make decisions under pressure, and influence outcomes that don't depend on clinical skill alone.

And when those leadership responsibilities aren't working the way they should, you end up carrying more than you should.

8 Weeks · New York · Limited Founding Cohort

The Leadership Problems That Keep Coming Back

  • The employee who keeps missing expectations

  • The conversation you keep putting off

  • The responsibility you delegated that somehow came back to you

  • The person you need to influence but don't directly manage

  • The team issue you've already addressed more than once

  • The decisions that continually require your involvement

A conversation you avoid becomes a bigger conversation later.

An unclear expectation becomes repeated disappointment.

A responsibility you repeatedly take back becomes dependence.

A problem you continually solve becomes another reason people need you to solve it again.

You may still be getting everything done. But you're carrying leadership problems that should be working differently.

Eight Weeks to Change How You Lead.

Dr. Emma Guzman's Dental Leadership Cohort is a structured leadership development experience for established dental professionals who want to identify the leadership problems making their roles harder and change how they respond to them.

This is not a library of leadership videos. The experience is built around applying the work to the leadership situations you're actually facing.

1

In-Person Kickoff + Mixer

Begin with Dr. Guzman and the founding cohort, identify your leadership priority, and define what you want to change.

2

Seven Weeks of Virtual Development

Participate in live Zoom sessions focused on applying leadership principles to real professional situations.

3

Group Coaching

Bring real challenges into the room and work through them with Dr. Guzman and the cohort.

4

Private Leadership Support

Receive individual support at strategic points around your specific leadership challenge.

5

Dental Leadership Diagnostic

Identify where leadership friction may be occurring and what deserves deeper investigation.

6

Leadership Reassessment

Return to your starting point and determine what changed and what still requires attention.

7

In-Person Closing Experience

Reconnect with the cohort, reflect on progress, build relationships, and establish what comes next.

Diagnose Before You Try to Fix It

Dentists are trained to diagnose before treating. Dr. Guzman's leadership process applies that same discipline to leadership.

Instead of starting with: “How do I become a better leader?”

The process starts with: “What is actually happening here, and what needs to change?”

1

Diagnose

Identify the leadership situation that needs attention.

2

Lead Self

Examine the decisions, boundaries, reactions, habits, and assumptions affecting how you lead.

3

Communicate

Strengthen expectations, feedback, listening, clarity, and difficult conversations.

4

Lead Others

Develop stronger approaches to accountability, delegation, influence, trust, and follow-through

5

Reassess

Determine what changed, what remains unresolved, and what comes next.

Work on a Real Leadership Problem

You won't enter the cohort with a generic goal like “become a better leader.”

You'll identify a real situation from your professional life and examine:

Situation → Pattern → Impact → Root Constraint → Desired Change → Evidence

What Could Change?

Depending on your leadership priority, that may mean:

  • handling difficult conversations sooner

  • setting expectations more clearly

  • delegating without immediately taking responsibility back

  • strengthening accountability and follow-through

  • influencing people you don't directly manage

  • establishing healthier leadership boundaries

  • responding more deliberately under pressure

  • reducing unnecessary dependence on you

Your specific outcome will depend on the leadership problem you identify and the work you apply throughout the cohort.

Built for Established Dental Professionals Ready to Lead Differently.

Dental Practice Owners & Partners

Dentists responsible for leading teams, making decisions, setting standards, and carrying significant organizational responsibility.

Experienced Dentists & Dental Leaders

Seasoned professionals with meaningful responsibility or influence, including those expected to lead without necessarily having ownership or formal authority.

This May Be Right for You If:

  • People depend on your leadership or decisions

  • You're dealing with a recurring leadership problem

  • The problem is affecting your effectiveness, relationships, or team

  • You have enough influence to act on what you learn

  • You're willing to examine your own behavior, not only everyone else's

  • You're prepared to apply the work between sessions

This is leadership development, not dental practice consulting. Dr. Guzman is not coming into your practice to rebuild your scheduling, production, financial, or clinical systems. The work focuses on how you lead yourself, communicate, influence others, and respond to the leadership responsibilities already in front of you.

Join the Founding Cohort

Stop Solving the Same Leadership Problems the Same Way.

You don't need to have the solution before you apply.

You should have a leadership situation important enough that you don't want to keep experiencing it the same way.

Your application will help determine whether the cohort is appropriate for your current leadership responsibilities, the problem you want to address, and what you want to change.

Applying does not commit you to enrolling or guarantee acceptance.

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