Turbo Charge your Practice can help you to transform your Veterinary Practice from a loss-making business into a powerful, profitable and effective investment
I’m endlessly curious about people and why they do what they do. So when a company joins our Community, I’m always interested to find out about who started the business, what their vision is, and most importantly, how they can help those who work within the veterinary industry.
I asked founder of TCYP Dr Diederik Gelderman a few questions about how and why he started his coaching business…
What’s your background? …What led you to start TCYP?
I had a ‘failing’ non-profitable practice – I was losing money and working my butt off so I drew a line in the sand, giving myself 12 months to fix it or sell. Part of fixing it was getting a business coach and 18 months later we had won the AVA-Pfizer Practice of Excellence (2004).
People started asking me what had I done, how had we achieved this. One thing led to another and within a few years I was a full-time veterinary business coach and mentor – traveling and working all over the World
What’s Turbo Charge Your Practice all about?
I believe you can own a practice that ‘has it all’. You can have a great team which has your back and are motivated and enthusiastic about coming to work, you can have a great lifestyle / work-life balance and you can make an excellent income as well as putting away for your retirement.
You just need to decide to make it happen and be prepared to spend 20 minutes every (week)day working on the business. You need to treat it as a business and not a ‘practice’.
Having a veterinary specific coach will help you make all this happen much faster (typically 18 months), avoid lots of ‘pain’ and setback, help you take the quickest path, avoiding the major obstacles and roadblocks
When did you start TCYP?
2004
Why do you think there’s a need for TCYP?
There’s a need because most practices barely eek out a profit, the owner barely earns a ‘base’ wage and they typically work extra-long hours and have no work-life balance. Over 70% of practitioners will retire on less than the median wage.
This is all totally unacceptable.
We’d have been better off being carpenters, brickies or electricians…
My purpose is to change all that and help elevate veterinary practices back to where they belong.
What’s your vision for the business – what do you want to achieve?
I want to help veterinary practices and their owners become financially free.
I want to help them enjoy coming to work again
I want to help them create great teams and work in a caring and supportive environment / workplace.
My passions is for pets and people and making their lives better
What are your views on the current state of the veterinary industry? How/where does TCYP fit into the picture?
The industry has a brilliant future. As society becomes faster, crazier, more ‘electronic’ our human relationships are becoming more disrupted and therefore our relationships with our pets are becoming more important.
Yes there are the 30% of pet owners who want the cheapest and the other 30% who want to do nothing or the minimal amount, however the 40% who are left will do whatever necessary and invest whatever money is need in the welfare of their pets. They are our clients.
When you set your practice up to find, attract and serve them, then the ‘magic’ happens
The industry has an unlimited potential future if we focus on serving our true clients and when we focus on providing our professional services.
What does the future hold for TCYP?
TCYP has a superb future working with clients and practices who want to make a difference in the lives of the patients and clients they serve – all over the world.
