Sep 17, 2024
Dr. Katie Blake is co-founder with her husband Alex of Blake
Dental, in the small market town of Witham, Essex, mid-way between
Chelmsford and Colchester.
Katie has a special interest in dental implants, not only
delivering to their own patients but working in other practices,
lecturing, training and mentoring.
Alex is a former maths teacher, who has become the Business
Manager.
They have also created a strong senior management team within
the practice, through internal development and promotion.
In this entertaining conversation, Katie shares with us
stories of her childhood, living with entrepreneurial parents,
forming her own proto-business as a child (hence the title - you’ll
realise), and then volunteering for work experience at a family
friend’s nearby dental practice after he suggested to her parents
that a career in dentistry would be a good choice.
We follow Katie to University, into hospital to become a
maxillofacial first-responder to trauma injuries and then into
Ownership.
She will share the experience of buying their practice, whilst
she was heavily pregnant and just before Covid lockdown - yikes -
and how they survived and have prospered.
You will love this conversation - a no-frills approach to life
and a genuinely happy Dental Business Owner and clinician. A lovely
couple who prove that the good guys can win!