Minal Sampat is a Best Selling Author, Marketing Strategist, Social Media Coach, and Dental Hygienist. She was born in India, grew up in the U.S. Virgin Islands, went to college in NJ, and now lives in Walla Walla with her husband and an extensive shoe collection! She launched her first company by breaking a Guinness World Record and since then has helped dental practices, speakers & entrepreneurs with marketing strategies to grow their businesses while reducing marketing expenses. She is also the founder of Marketologist™ - an online marketing training program and CE on the Beach™ - where she hosts events in tropical islands. This year’s event is in Aruba! Minal's marketing strategies have been featured in industry press AND on Forbes.com...not once, not twice...but 7 times in the last 3 years.

Elijah Desmond gets to share his love for music as an Emcee and DJ to large crowds! Elijah is the founder of Dentistry’s Got Talent, Smiles at Sea, Dental Festival and Dental Pitch. Whether he is meeting planning, speaking, emceeing, or DJing, Elijah has worked with involved in over 300 speakers and 250 events. Elijah’s events and experiences focus on three things: FUN and Education and elevating speakers. Elijah is best known for turning traditional conferences into exciting, modern day events and festivals.

Course topics

• Work with event planners
• Market as a speaker
• Develop your professional brand as a presenter
• Define the ideal audience for your content
• Dive into the concepts of live events, online events, and hybrid events
• Create an insightful speaker packet that sells
• Discuss the varied dental events held regionally on the state level, nationally, and globally
• The business of Speaking

Transform your dental expertise into a captivating narrative for various audiences. This session will provide strategies to effectively frame your specialized knowledge, making it accessible and appealing to regional, national, and global audiences. Enhance your ability to communicate your skills, experiences, and unique insights, solidifying your position as a sought-after expert in the dental field.

Speaker Bio:

Jasmin Haley, MS, with roles ranging from clinician to professional speaker, has sculpted an influential career. Early on, she worked with marginalized groups, understanding the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of education. This informed her H.E.A.R.T Methodology™ and The Legacy Scaler® Framework, revolutionizing audience engagement and business growth. Transitioning from healthcare to a wider clientele, Jasmin now aids organizations with her transformative speaking skills and curriculum design. As the owner of Legacy Scaler®, she coaches experts with public speaking, and how to build a business with speaking, and her agency provides DFY curriculum design or speaker pitching services. With her dedicated team, she ensures effective communication and lasting legacy creation for her clients.

With a passion for transforming dental education, Dr. Anissa Holmes has made a name for herself as a leading expert in coaching and presentations. Her exceptional skills have earned her numerous invitations to keynote at prominent events like AACD, contribute to dental publications like Dental Economics, and present at top dental meetings and societies. At the helm of Delivering Wow Dental Education, Dr. Holmes and her team of experts work alongside dental practices to help them achieve exponential growth. Their focus is on team transformation, leadership, effective case presentation, schedule and systems optimization, and high-return marketing implementation.

While many coaches aim for multiple six-figure years for their clients, Dr. Holmes sets her sights higher - helping her clients reach multiple six-figure months. With her proven approach and results, she is truly changing the game in the world of dental education.

Have you ever sat in a meeting, watching the speaker, and wondered, “How do I do that?”

Or perhaps you feel the desire to share your knowledge by consulting with businesses and professionals to help them elevate their success and are just not sure how to get started.

You’re not alone! Many professionals grow to a point in their career where they would like to give back to the profession while continuing to stretch themselves and create additional business opportunities in the process.

Learn how to get from here to there: Drawing from her 20+ years’ experience as a speaking/consulting business advisor and marketer, Vanessa will share the foundational tools, skills and resources required for launching a speaking and/or consulting business that gets you noticed, booked... and compensated!

Speaker Bio:

Recognized as a business strategist, wellness educator, and influencer, Vanessa Emerson, FDSI mentors professionals in business development/strategy, marketing, event management and health/wellness principles. Vanessa's annual conferences attract meeting professionals who gather to learn, network and support each other in growing their businesses and the dental meetings industry.

She was honored by Dental Products Report as one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry (2017), awarded Nifty Thrifty’s Dental Industry Influencer of the Year(2023), and thrice selected for the Denobi Award Shortlist (2021, 2022, 2023) for her outstanding contributions in the industry.  Vanessa is frequently booked by organizations who would like to encourage their members to explore and expand their roles as speakers and consultants.
An avid student of self-development over four decades, Vanessa is honored to be both a Chopra Certified Health™ and a Chopra Certified Meditation™ Instructor.

Her health and well being courses reflect the understanding that professionals who prioritize self-care and self-development are more likely to experience happiness, health, and fulfillment. Drawing from Ayurveda, a scientifically proven holistic health system, Vanessa's teachings focus on daily choices that restore our natural state of balance and help us maintain vitality.

Speaker Bio:

Ankur A Gupta, DDS, after completing a one-year GPR in Cleveland, started a practice from scratch in 2005. Armed with what he considered adequate dental knowledge, hand skills, and a personable demeanor, he watched as his practice floundered, finances became un-predictable, and his lower back and spirit toward his profession became worrisome. Rather than continue the trend, he made a guinea pig out of his office, family, and self, attempting any and all personal and professional “experiments” in self-improvement.

More than a decade later, he enjoys an excellent practice, a solution oriented dental team; and most importantly, a meaningful and positive identity. He happily shares the failures and successes with dental and community groups throughout the country, always ending his presentations with practical, implementable, step-by-step ways to be better.

Dr. Gupta graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 2004. In 2005, after completing a one-year General Practice Residency in Cleveland, Ohio, he and his partner Dr. Nisha Gupta started North Ridgeville Family Dentistry. In addition to founding North Ridgeville Family Dentistry, Dr. Gupta is a member of the American Dental Association, Greater Cleveland Dental Society, Ohio Dental Association, ADA Success Speaker Corp and an active board member and a speaker for Catapult Education’s Speaker Bureau.

Warren Buffet said, “Public speaking is THE most valuable business skill.” Whether you are speaking at an industry event, addressing your team, or promoting a new idea, your ability to create clarity and inspiration will determine your success. Champion speaker, Certified Speaking Professional, and presentation coach, Katherine Eitel Belt, will show us how StorySelling, humor, and audience engagement can influence and persuade our listeners without memorizing a script. She’ll show us how to organize our material, find and craft compelling stories, and deliver it all with finesse and authenticity… and she’ll help us handle those pesky butterflies and nerves once and for all.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn an easy way to organize your thoughts or craft a speech anytime and every time using "The Bookshelf" formula.
• Translate technical subjects using stories, metaphors, acronyms, memory anchors, and interaction.
• Discover how to be more comfortable, confident, and conversational on stage.
• Comfortably and appropriately promote products and services using "StorySelling" techniques.
• Manage your nerves and grow your confidence

Speaker Bio:

Katherine Eitel Belt, CSP, Dentistry’s Unscripted Communications Coach!

Founder of LionSpeak Communications Coaching, international speaker, and performance coach, best known for helping professionals develop courageous, unscripted conversations with patients, clients, co-workers, and audiences.

Katherine’s coached thousands of dental professionals in U.S., Canada, and U.K. Keynoted for Care Credit, Henry Schein, Patterson Dental, Dentsply Sirona, Seattle Study Club, Pacific Dental Services.

Certified Speaking Professional (achieved by only 10% professional speakers worldwide.) She’s a Spotlight-On-Speaking Champion, SCN founding member, ADMC past president, faculty instructor for Dental Business Institute, Dental Speakers Institute, and Texas Tech University Dental School, AADOM/ASCA member, DEW Board Advisor Emeritus, recipient of Linda Miles Spirit Award and winner of 2023 Dental Festival Speaker of the Year and Nifty Awards 2023 Favorite Dental Speaker.