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March 4, 2019

The Business Side of Occupational Therapy with Brandon Seigel

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Episode Summary

Understanding the business side of occupational therapy is pivotal for any therapist and practice owner to know. In order to be successful within our profession, we must be aware of the state of healthcare and be solid within our purpose as a clinician. Our guest today, Brandon Seigel, is a private practice business consultant and executive director of Wellness Works Management Partners with years of experience helping practitioners start, run, and advance their practices to the next level.

Brandon recently published a book called The Private Practice Survival Guide, outlining highly useful information for therapists and practice owners alike. He presents all over the country at local and state conferences and has an online course and private practice podcast launching soon. His goal is to help therapists in creating a business model that ultimately helps them excel both on a business side and on a clinical side.

Show Notes

Brandon and Sarah discuss:

Brandon’s current professional life
Wellness Work Management Partners- Consulting Firm
Works with private practices all over the country and internationally (OT, PT, SLP & physician)
Consultation services and management services
Executive Director at Every Child Achieves in Southern California
Speaking all over the country, including 3 courses at American Occupational Therapy Association
New book just released called The Private Practice Survival Guide
Creating a new private practice podcast
Importance of prioritization
Why he does what he does
His start business and then how occupational therapy came into play
Struggles in school as a child and how that played a role in his desire to help others
Going to community college, then the University of Southern California, and graduating from California State University Northridge
Starting the workforce after college with entrepreneurs and managing other companies and multimillion dollar projects
His company was moving to a different state as he was marrying an occupational therapist whose mother had a successful therapy practice which needed some business support
Revolutionized that company and then branched out to start his own consulting company
Always felt a calling to purpose
His willingness to help his clients at any time and any day
How Brandon and Sarah met
Power of clinical integrity
Our current state of healthcare
The most asked question that he gets from private practice owners
Recognizing a therapist’s cost to a company
Shifting the employee mindset
Knowing the responsibilities of the employer and of the employees
Tips for therapists to stand out when being considered for a job
Resume building strategies
Importance of writing a cover letter and quickly responding to any correspondence for a job that you apply for
Self-awareness and his biggest perceived weakness is something that is not self-aware
Be specific in your skills and attributes
Discussing financials upfront
How to cut ties with an employee?
Upcoming online course coming in 2019