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Tomorrow morning, I will be at Tewkesbury Hall (wherever that is, but the sat nav says about two hours away).

Straumann is organising an event for 50 of their best up-and-coming customers to allow them to get to the next level of implant practice, implant surgery, and business development.

There are some extraordinary speakers there, not at least Maja Chmielewska from Poland, who I've started to work with quite a lot through the ITI but who also (with her dad, Kris Chmielewski) attended our online business course and were the most extraordinary interactive delegates.

There will also be Kate Richardson-Walsh, who captained the GB women's hockey team to a gold medal in Rio and won a bronze medal in London.

But for my part, I will speak on dental business and how to improve your business and concepts towards that.

I remember doing another event like this for Straumann quite a long time ago (so long, I can't remember). I met a young man in the little finance section in a small room in Coombe Abbey that I was hosting who was enthusiastic, keen, and hungry and was setting up his own business in Leeds.

We had long chats and contacts after that, and we shared everything that we had at the time regarding financial management and business models. He went on to open his small practice on a street in Leeds.

His name is Mohsin Patel, and he has had one of the most extraordinary business development stories over the past 5 to 10 years.

After that time in Coombe Abbey, we extended our business talking to a business course, which was a year-long in 2017, and there I met Amit and Mumta Jilka.

Amit will be speaking with me tomorrow as we explain the advantages of paying attention to business and business education to make things better in your practising life.

When Amit and Mumta came to see us for the year-long business course, their business was turning over a small amount with a small number of staff, and they'd taken it over approximately 2.5 years before.

They did the most extraordinary testimonial video for us, where Amit talked about how he wished he'd done the business course before they bought the practice; then, he would know what he knows now and how much better it would have been.

Amit and Mumta's practice has expanded exponentially since then, and the reason that we're speaking together is that he does give us extraordinary credit for that process.