SCN Annual Summit 2026

Lois Banta

A reflection on the top 30 lessons learned through SCN — highlighting the experiences, insights, relationships, and moments that have shaped our community over the years.

Fiesta

Len Tau

If you're a dental consultant looking to grow your business, attract more clients, and land more speaking gigs, it’s time to tap into the most powerful marketing tool available today: social proof. In this high-energy session, Dr. Leonard Tau will show you exactly how to turn raving reviews and testimonials into your most effective business growth strategy. Online reviews aren’t just for dental practices—they’re a game-changer for your consulting brand. When prospective clients or event organizers Google you (and they will), your online presence determines whether they reach out—or move on. And in a world where credibility is currency, nothing builds trust faster than what others say about working with you. You’ll learn how to generate powerful online reviews, capture compelling video testimonials, and strategically share them on social media to elevate your visibility and authority. Plus, Dr. Tau will dive into simple tools and newsletter strategies that help you grow your email list and keep your audience engaged and ready to convert. What You’ll Learn: How to consistently generate glowing reviews from your consulting clients and speaking engagements Creative ways to capture and share video testimonials that build instant credibility Social media strategies to amplify your content and attract new opportunities Proven tools to grow and nurture your email list through effective newsletters The step-by-step process to become more discoverable, more credible, and more in-demand Whether you're just getting started or ready to take your consulting career to the next level, this session will give you the exact blueprint to stand out in a crowded market—and turn happy clients into your best marketing engine.

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Rita Zamora

In the AI era, ideas are everywhere, but execution is what sets people apart. Being a thought leader is no longer enough. We must become thought doers, those who act on ideas, test quickly, and adapt in real time. Rita shares practical insights from her evolution as a treatment coordinator to helping lead the adoption of social media in dentistry, and now helping practices navigate AI visibility. Together, we will explore the key traits of effective thought doers and how to stay adaptable, take action with confidence, and keep momentum over time. Through short interactive exercises and real-world examples, you will walk away with actionable steps to strengthen your positioning and deliver greater value to the dentists you serve. Leave this Power Hour with renewed focus and tools you can use immediately.

Fiesta

Leslie Icenogle

By the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Differentiate Between Owning a Job and Owning a Transferable Business. Attendees will identify the structural, financial, and branding elements that determine whether their company is dependent on them or can operate without them. - Implement Systems That Increase Enterprise Value. Participants will learn practical strategies to strengthen recurring revenue, clean financial reporting, documented processes, and scalable infrastructure that buyers value. - Develop a Strategic Exit Vision That Drives Today’s Decision Attendees will leave with a framework for aligning their current growth strategy with a 3-, 5-, or 10-year exit plan—maximizing valuation and ensuring a smooth handoff.

Fiesta

Elizabeth Griffiith

Discover how the Working Genius Assessment can help improve productivity, communication, and leadership within your business and the dental teams you support. This workshop explores the 6 Types of Work Genius model and how creating a common language around work can strengthen collaboration, maximize strengths, and help teams work more effectively together.

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Amy Wood

Most consultants build successful businesses, but very few build them with a plan for what comes next. In this fast-paced, interactive session, Amy Wood challenges attendees to identify their current stage of business and define their next move: grow, merge, buy, sell, or exit. Through engaging, in-room exercises and real world examples, participants will gain clarity on their options and the critical decisions that shape long term success. Amy also breaks down what it really means to sell or transition a consulting business, including what’s actually being sold, key contract terms, and negotiation strategies that can protect (or cost) you. Attendees will leave with: - A clear understanding of where they are - Insight into their best next step - Practical tools to start planning immediately Direct, engaging, and highly actionable, this session helps consultants stop guessing and start planning.

Fiesta

It's time to come together and celebrate the start of our Summit - 30th Anniversary Style!

Front Lawn

Network, connect, and get energized for an amazing day of learning and fun!

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Ryan Vet

Welcome to our 30th Anniversary Summit! Let's kick off the Summit with an inspiring opening keynote celebrating the power of connection, leadership, and the legacy we continue to build together. As we gather to honor 30 years of SCN, this session will set the tone for a meaningful experience focused on growth, impact, and the future we are creating together.

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Sameer Bhasin

CareCredit is the founding partner of SCN. CareCredit helps individuals and families access the care they want and need—when they need it—by offering a convenient financing option for health, wellness, and veterinary services. Accepted at more than 285,000 provider and retail locations, the CareCredit credit card is used daily for dental work, vision care, hearing aids, cosmetic procedures, and pet care. For over 30 years, CareCredit, from Synchrony, has empowered millions of families to move forward with important treatments without delaying care.

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Bete Johnson

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Adam Sierra

Weave is a leading, all-in-one patient experience platform for small-to-medium healthcare, dental, and optometry practices, offering tools to manage communication, scheduling, and payments. It integrates phone systems, text messaging, reviews, digital forms, and insurance verification into one platform to streamline office workflows and improve patient engagement.

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Katherine Eitel Belt

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Ian McNickle, Gary Takacs, Jodi Manfredi

ICON Dental Partners is a doctor-led, doctor-owned Dental Partnership Organization (DPO) that partners with general and specialty dental practices across the U.S. Founded in 2022, it provides non-clinical support—including HR, marketing, and finance—allowing dentists to focus on patient care, maintain clinical autonomy, and gain equity

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Dawn Scott

Just as mile markers measure the distance of a journey, milestones measure the distance of a life and who you’ve become along the way. But between those milestones lie hundreds of small, invisible decisions that were quietly building something big. Unlike markers on a highway, they don’t announce themselves. You can’t see them in the moment. You can only see them in the rearview, when you realize those quiet, ordinary moments were adding up to something extraordinary all along.

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Mackenzie Limtiaco

Mango Voice began over 14 years ago as an internet provider offering wireless and fiber services in Utah and Nevada before evolving into a nationwide telecommunications solution for homes, businesses, schools, and hotels. Recognizing the challenges of bulky PBX systems, they developed a cloud-based platform designed to eliminate complicated equipment and allow updates across all users at once. Built with reliability and simplicity in mind, Mango Voice’s system is shaped by customer feedback—creating flexible phone solutions designed for users, by users.

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Dr. John Montoya

Dental Purchasing Partners advocates for independent dental practices by negotiating competitive pricing typically reserved for large Dental Service Organizations (DSOs). Through the power of collective buying, they work with vendors to secure meaningful discounts that help private practices remain competitive in today’s evolving market. If a needed vendor or category isn’t currently available, their team is committed to pursuing new partnerships to bring added value and cost-saving opportunities to members.

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Kevin Henry, Dayna Johnson

What does it really take to build relationships that last in a world full of differing opinions, competition, and constant change? In this dynamic session, Dayna Johnson and Kevin Henry share the four principles that have shaped their personal and professional journey together: Communication, Compromise, Clarity, and Curiosity. Through real stories from their careers and their relationship, they’ll explore how to navigate differing viewpoints, build trust in competitive environments, and create connections that go beyond surface-level networking. Attendees will walk away with practical insights on how to strengthen relationships, communicate more effectively, and build a legacy rooted in connection, not just success

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Fabian Santibanez, John Yourg

When you work with Media NV you work with family. We are focused on building your business because your success is the reflection of our growth. Our team is made up of individuals who are passionate, driven, and the best at what they do. We combine creativity, technology and marketing to fully integrate your business with the online world and give you ample opportunity to grow your brand. Whether you are seeking a company that is local or outsourced, we fully accommodate your goals and execute them to your best advantage.

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Tyler Jorgenson

This presentation explains how successful businesses in 2026 are using AI and automation to create a “Growth Flywheel” that consistently generates leads, nurtures conversations, closes sales, earns reviews, and reactivates old customers. It outlines five key stages and demonstrates how HighLevel provides the all-in-one platform to accomplish this through CRM automation, AI chat and voice agents, SMS and WhatsApp follow-up, workflow automation, payment tools, review management, and database reactivation campaigns. The core message is that winning businesses don’t scale by working harder — they scale by leveraging AI-powered systems that automate and optimize every stage of the customer journey.

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Josh Gosnell

Adit is an all-in-one dental practice management and patient engagement platform that helps practices attract, retain, and communicate with patients.

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Jacquelyn Hurley

eAssist Dental Solutions provides outsourced dental billing and practice support services, helping dental offices maximize collections and streamline operations.

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Emme Sanders, Marni Blythe, Alan Twigg, Lori Gross, Manuella Felix, Ashley Bond, Aditi Agarwal, Tosha Gurley, Erin Glending

Experience the power of pure storytelling and stage presence during the Spotlight on Speaking Competition. Nine SCN members will take the stage with just 8 minutes to deliver their message and compete for future speaking spots at conferences and the 2027 SCN Summit.

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Celebrate the evening with cocktails, conversation, and breathtaking views before we head into our Gala Dinner celebration.

Rotunda

Celebrate 30 years of SCN with an unforgettable Gala Dinner filled with great food, live entertainment, dancing, and celebration. Enjoy an incredible performance by Hard Days Night, a Beatles tribute band, as we honor the past, celebrate the present, and toast to the future together. This formal and elegant evening invites guests to dress up, celebrate big, and enjoy a night to remember.

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Network, connect, and get energized for an amazing day of learning and fun!

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Join us for a special panel reflecting on 30 years of SCN—where we’ve been, where we are today, and where we’re headed next. This conversation brings together past, present, and future perspectives on the impact, growth, and vision of our community.

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Lauren

We’ve all attended training sessions that felt great in the moment… only to forget most of the content a few days later. In this engaging and interactive session, speaker and facilitator Lauren Ansley shares her actionable STICK Framework, designed to help learners absorb, retain, and apply information long after the session ends. Attendees will walk away with practical techniques to improve focus, participation, retention, and real-world application, making learning more meaningful, memorable, and useful in everyday work and life.

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Tyler Jorgenson

HighLevel is a powerful, community-driven platform built by marketers to help businesses and agencies grow, scale, and overcome everyday marketing challenges. Designed with training, resources, and collaboration in mind, it connects ambitious entrepreneurs and marketing professionals while continuously evolving through feedback and innovation from its active user community.

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Sophia Dunkley

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Jonathan Magrath

Reach connects dental practices with highly vetted Virtual Assistants trained specifically for the demands of dentistry, seamlessly integrating them into your systems and daily workflows.

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Kevin Henry

Drawing from years covering the Colorado Rockies as a beat writer, this engaging and story-driven presentation explores the human side of performance in high-pressure environments. Through behind-the-scenes insights and real-world experiences, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how elite athletes handle failure, maintain consistency, and navigate pressure—along with practical lessons that translate far beyond the ballpark.

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Savanah Carlson

MaxAssist isn’t another dashboard. It is the system that shows dental teams exactly where the opportunity is and what to do about it. It is an action-first AI platform built for practices that want more than insight. MaxAssist brings visibility to what is actually sitting inside the practice and turns it into clear direction. Instead of dashboards that sit untouched, MaxAssist identifies where opportunity exists and guides teams on what to do next. From filling schedule gaps to reactivating overdue patients, it turns data into daily execution. For partners and advocates, it creates stronger, more informed conversations with practices grounded in real data, clear opportunity, and immediate next steps.

Santa Ynez/San Rafael

Conner Ludlow

Annie is an AI-powered coworker and front desk assistant designed specifically for dental practices. Available 24/7, Annie helps manage web chats, answer missed calls, and schedule appointments directly into your practice management software. Fully customized to each office’s insurance guidelines, doctor preferences, and policies, Annie helps practices improve patient communication while reducing the day-to-day workload for front-office teams.

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Josh Rich

Clerri (formerly Kleer and Membersy) is the dental industry's largest and most trusted membership platform, transforming how dental practices grow. By simplifying access to care through smart, sustainable membership plans, we empower providers to increase patient loyalty, reduce insurance dependence, and build recurring revenue.

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Dayna Johnson

This isn’t a story about a perfect path; it’s about choosing a different one. In this candid and thought-provoking Words of Wisdom talk, Dayna Johnson shares how she broke away from the environment she was raised in and built a life on her own terms. Through real experiences and defining decisions, she challenges the idea that circumstances dictate outcomes and leaves the audience with a clear message: if you wait for permission, you will stay exactly where you are.

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Sheela Roth, Mike Buckner

Pearl is a dental AI company committed to enhancing how patient care is delivered. Founded in 2019 by a team with decades of experience developing successful, enterprise-grade computer vision solutions, Pearl introduced the first-ever FDA-cleared AI capable of reading and instantly identifying diseases in dental x-rays. With regulatory clearance in 120 countries, Pearl's AI assists dentists in making precise clinical decisions and effectively communicating with patients, thereby transforming the dental care experience worldwide. As dentistry’s global AI leader, Pearl is committed to the ongoing innovation of robust, accessible AI tools that improve patient health outcomes and build greater trust in dental medicine.

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Ryan Vet, Ashley Parker Snider

Explore the impact of leadership, connection, and influence across generations as we discuss what it means to build a lasting legacy that continues to inspire the future.

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Colby McElrath

Bern Media helps established founders turn their expertise into high-impact shows that build credibility and visibility in their industry. By producing, publishing, and distributing content across podcasts, YouTube, social media, and ABC News Radio, they make your voice a platform that earns trust before any sales call or pitch. You record, they handle everything else—turning your insights into a show that attracts attention, respect, and lasting influence.

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Timothy O'Donnell

Resilience: Built Forward is a powerful keynote on how to stay strong, adapt, and move forward when life or work doesn’t go to plan. Drawing from elite sport, leadership, and personal adversity, IRONMAN Champion and World Champion Timothy O’Donnell shares the lessons that helped him perform under pressure at the highest level and rebuild through one of the greatest challenges of his life. Built Forward System: Reset, Reframe, Rebuild Forward, attendees will learn how to: - Stay calm and focused when pressure rises - Make better decisions in uncertain moments - Turn setbacks into growth and opportunity - Build momentum after adversity or change - Lead themselves and others with resilience This session is inspiring, practical, and packed with tools attendees can apply immediately in both work and life.

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