Diary full of general treatments. Orthotics going out the door. Aged care rounds every week. And the owner still is not paid what the practice should be paying. I work one on one with podiatry practice owners across Australia and New Zealand, starting with the numbers most coaching never touches: revenue per podiatrist hour, what orthotics really earn, and what the practice actually pays you.
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Solo owner-operator, a two-room practice with an associate, or a multi-site team with a home visit round. The detail changes, the business problem does not: a full diary, flat fees, rising wages and no clear view of where the money comes from.
Your diary is a profit document. Let's read it that way.
Thirty minutes on Zoom, just you and me. We look at how money moves through your practice and find your single biggest profit lever. You keep it whether we ever work together or not. If deeper help makes sense, the next step is CEO Profit Coaching, private one on one for practice owners. No group program, no lock-in contract.
The useful version starts with your numbers. Revenue per podiatrist hour, how the diary splits between general treatments, assessments, nail surgery and orthotics, what orthotics actually earn after lab costs and the hours you put into them, and what the practice pays you after wages, super and rent. Then we work on fees, marketing, hiring and leadership, with every decision made on data.
Because a full diary of general treatments at a fee that has not moved in two years, delivered by staff whose wages and super have, is a practice working hard to stand still. Add orthotics priced without the lab cost and your own hours in them, a home visit round that does not cover travel, and a few no-shows a day, and the margin is gone before it reaches you.
Yes, and they change the pricing. Care plan and DVA schedules cap what you receive for a share of your appointments, which is why the rest of your fee structure has to be set deliberately. We look at your mix of private, care plan, DVA, NDIS and aged care clients and make sure the practice still makes a margin on each.
Only if it finds more than it costs. In a practice with two or three podiatrists, one underpriced consult type, orthotics that do not carry their lab cost, or one hire made before the numbers supported it can cost more in a year than coaching does. Ask any coach how their work pays for itself in a practice like yours.
One on one only. Group programs suit owners who want motivation and peers. Private coaching is the better fit when the problem is specific to your numbers, when you need to talk openly about your practice, or when you have already done a group program and nothing changed.
Shopping around first? Read how to choose an allied health business coach in Australia. Not a podiatrist? See business coaching for allied health practices and physiotherapy practices.
Free, 30 minutes, one clear profit lever. Then you decide what happens next.
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Jess Norton, founder of Clinics Coach. 16+ years in strategy and finance, now helping clinic and practice owners across Australia and New Zealand build businesses that are busy, profitable and free.