The biggest audience in the industry that I ever got the chance to speak to was probably 1200 people. The biggest room that some of my material was presented in (by somebody else) was a room for 6000 (but wasn't full). The biggest screen I ever presented on was something like 5 metres long, but we only get the opportunity in this world to do this every so often. It's like making it to the cup final when you do it once, you think you'll do it all the time, that's not how it works, but today is different.
So far, anywhere here, I haven't discussed the future collaboration of The Campbell Academy and Chris Barrow, and what's happening next, but we're close enough now to tell you that what you will see coming will be extraordinary, and it'll all be here, big and wide and loud, very soon (almost certainly the start of next month it'll all be finished next week) and so it's fine for me to talk about Chris as one of us because he is and he will be, and this is what it will be like.
So it adds well to this little post.
As I write this, I'm sat in a hotel room in Inverness on Friday morning, I'm presenting downstairs to a small, but unique group of dentists we're here to learn a little bit about business and a little bit of how to apply things like ridge preservation and guided surgery into business.
It's a very high-value, high-level event for me, but a very small number of people.
I'll travel back tomorrow, and then on Sunday I get to go to the cup final at Wembley with my lad.
While I'm here today, though, Chris will be presenting in Cheltenham. Almost entirely the other end and another side of the country, he'll be speaking to 200 people at Gloucester Independent dentists on what's happening in business and dentistry, and why now is the time that you have to be into business and dentistry, if you're in the business of dentistry.
As our great, great friend, Lewis MacKenzie, once said, “dentistry used to be a business in which it was difficult to fail, and now it isn't”.
In between, Chris and I, in Nottingham, Laurence Masters (who is an extraordinary genius in all aspects of orthodontics) is teaching a masterclass on TADS (temporary anchorage devices), after having provided an ITI Study Club at the clinic and academy last night. That will be an extraordinary day again for people using aligners to do the best possible work they can to get the maximum use out of those.
In between Laurence and me in Glasgow, Colin Burns, our director for Education for Scotland and Northern Ireland, is hosting the Clinical Days for the year course in Scotland at Atelier in Glasgow.
That's 4 sites, one day, hundreds of people.
‘We exist to positively influence the lives of as many people as possible through the work that we do and the example that we set'.
It's the biggest multiple-site date we've ever done; it's definitely not the last. Days like this don't come around that often. They’re special.
But the way things are going for us, if you keep an eye here, it will come round, more and more often from here.
Blog Post Number - 4475