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FOUNDATIONS

Build your practice to produce more, demand less, and finally let you leave on time.

Foundations is Ladder5 Mentorship & Resources' group coaching program for women dental practice owners who are ready to stop managing fires and start leading their practice. With two coaching calls a month, custom analytics reports, and a team leader trained alongside you, you get real structure and guidance to make your practice into something you love instead of dream of.

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The Problem You Already Know

You built an amazing practice. The schedule is full, the team is decent and on paper? It works.

So why does it still feel like the practice is running you ragged?

You're the owner who can't actually leave. You took a real vacation once and came back to a mess that took months to clean up . . . not to mention the production you lost as a result. You're indispensable, and you already know that's not a compliment. It's a structural problem with your name on it.

Underneath it, it's the same thing: you're not running the practice anymore. The practice is running you.

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This Was Never a Systems Problem Or a Hiring Problem. 

You've probably already tried to fix it. A new system, new hire, and new schedule template. Maybe you told yourself the next quarter would be different if you just implemented the new guidelines you put in place. 

Here's what nobody told you in dentistry school: systems don't hold without great leadership behind them. You can build the best protocol in the world, and if your team isn't trained to operate inside a culture of accountability, it falls apart in six weeks or less.

That's the gap Foundations is built to close. Not more systems stacked on top of the ones that didn't stick. The leadership and the numbers literacy underneath them, working together.

What Foundations Actually Gives You

Foundations is structured group coaching with Dr. Karley Schneider and Dr. Summer Kassmel, built on the Ladder5 methodology, for practice owners who are past the startup phase and ready for the real leadership development that turns stressful practices into legacies you feel proud to own, lead, and let run without your constant oversight.

Here's what your months inside actually look like.

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Every month after, Dr. K's team pulls your financial analytics and the details from your practice management software together to build a custom analytics report that shows you exactly why you keep feeling like the revenue isn't growing . . .even when you know it is. 

Twice a month, you're on a call with people who have been in the frustration of running a practice – and gotten themselves out. One is about your numbers: the data that helps you understand where your stress comes from, why your team members aren’t doing what you ask them to do, and how to create the systems that support you taking time off. The other is about leadership: how to communicate in a way that builds accountability, how to build a team that doesn't need you to be the answer to everything, and allows you to leave the office and not take everything home with you.

At the same time, your team leader, whoever you choose to bring in, is in their own development program, learning the same framework, the same language, the same numbers literacy you are. So when you come back to the practice with a new priority, they already speak the language. You're not the only one carrying the vision anymore.

By month four, you know your practice in a way you never have before.

What You'll Know By Month Four

The first four months of Foundations are your onboarding phase, and they have a clear destination. By the end of month four, you will:

  • Understand your numbers beyond the surface-level. Know your KPIs and what to actually do with them. Which means when your overhead hits 72%, you know it before it becomes a cash flow problem and you know exactly which line item to fix.
  • Know where your money is going, and feel in control of it instead of afraid of it. Which means you'll know if your collection rate is sitting at 94% instead of 98% and what that 4% gap is actually costing you every single month.
  • Know exactly which systems gaps in your practice are the highest leverage, and which ones can wait. Which means instead of overhauling six things at once, you fix the one that moves your production number and you can name it.
  • Catch yourself making a fear-based decision before you make it, and choose from abundance instead. Which means when an associate opportunity lands in your lap, you can look at your actual numbers and say yes or no . . . not just hope you can afford it.
  • See clearly the gap between the culture you have and the culture you want, with a real starting point to close it. Which means your morning huddle stops being a formality and starts being the 10 minutes that sets the tone for a $10k day.
  • Have a trained leader inside your practice who is aligned with you, not guessing at what you need. Which means when you lose a team member, your office manager already knows how to hire to the culture and your production doesn't crater while you're cleaning up the fallout.
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Sound familiar?

“I don’t know if I can afford to give my team raises.”

“I don’t know if I can really afford this piece of equipment.”

“There’s no money left over at the end of the month, and I don’t know why.”

“I know the surface-level numbers. I don’t actually know my numbers.”

Foundations Reporting is How You Answer Those Questions

If you've worked with a coach before, you've probably gotten advice. What you probably haven't gotten is a real, reconciled picture of your own numbers. The ones that tell you what you can and can’t do inside of your own business.

Most dentists are looking at the rear-view mirror. You know what you collected last month. You don't know what you left on the table. You don't know where overhead is quietly eating your profitability. You don't know if you can actually afford the raise you want to give, or the equipment you've been putting off, or the associate you keep talking yourself out of hiring.

Every month in Foundations, Dr. K's team builds you a custom report from your own data, and you break it down together on your numbers call. Not generic benchmarks. Your practice, your collections, your overhead, your story. The goal isn't just information. It's control. You stop being at the mercy of your numbers and start making them work for you.

What's Included

  • Expert coaching and education from two dentists who’ve been where you are and gotten to a point where stress free dental practices are the norm
  • Two group coaching calls per month - One on your numbers and analytics. One on leadership and mindset. Hard skills and soft skills, both, every month.
  • Monthly custom practice analytics report
  • One leader seat in the Leaders Collective. Bring in your office manager, your hygiene lead, whoever runs point in your practice. They get trained in the same Ladder5 methodology, on their own track, so the work doesn't live only in your head. Peter Din brought two of his team members into the Leaders Collective and has already seen them align without him having to repeat himself constantly.
  • Full access to the Ladder5 resource vault and CE library so implementation can happen easily
  • Never go searching for another CE course again. This is a living library, not a static archive.
  • Option for private 1:1 support with Karley
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Who Foundations Is For

You own your practice. You have a team, even if it's not the team you want yet. You're past the startup phase, you're not white-knuckling survival mode, but you know something has to change.

You're tired of leading by feel. You're ready to lead from data.

You have, or are willing to identify, a team leader who could grow into the role you need them to play.

Foundations is not for a practice in crisis with no team in place. It's for a practice that's working, but not yet free.

The Investment

Foundations is $2,400/month, and includes one leader seat in the Leaders Collective.

That includes both monthly calls, your custom analytics report, full vault and CE library access, and your leader's training track.

Think about what staying where you are is actually costing you. Not in theory, in dollars: the production you're leaving on the table because you don't know where it's leaking. The hire you're avoiding because you don't trust your own numbers enough to make the call. The week of vacation you didn't take this year.

Foundations is intentionally small. Spots are limited to protect the quality of the coaching and Dr. K's capacity to actually know your practice, not just your name.

Program starts mid-August 2026.

FAQ

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You already know the practice could produce more and demand less. You already know you can't keep being the ceiling.

Direct checkout. No application, no waiting to hear back. You'll get an onboarding form right after.