Stacey Ehlers R.D.H., M.Ed.

Registered Dental Hygienist, Higher Education and Business Development Specialist Lake Worth, FL 33460

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● Enthusiastic, motivated, and solutions minded business development and training specialist. Multi- industry experience in organizational leadership, education/training and sales. Strong background working with small businesses, health and safety corporations and higher education institutions.

● Industriously navigates the complex infrastructure of unfamiliar business environments, ensuring organizational inclusivity.

● Easily associates and connects with new personalities. Quickly capable of influencing and rallying diverse teams towards a common good, regardless of rank or title. Sharp business acumen, quick wit with seasoned emotional intelligence.

● Quietly commands respect by genuinely offering it.

● Two decades of workplace health and safety experience. An able team player willing to coach and be coached. Solutions minded a fair and creative project leader. Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Registered Dental Hygienist

Sage Dental - Boynton Beach, FL

February 2022 to Present

• All duties expected of a dental hygienist including presenting and enrolling patients into dental hygienist treatment as well as making patients want, what I know they need for dental treatment and discussing and enrolling them in elective dental treatments, such as elective orthodontics, full mouth rehabs and cosmetic smile designs with veneers or crowns to enhance their smile and self esteem.

• Average over $2500 daily with some days tripling that in my collections alone, not including dental testament I’ve discussed and treatment planned for patients. Dental Business Development Specialist

Self Employed - Lake Worth, FL

September 2017 to Present

Successfully increases dental office production by a minimum of 30%. Establishes training programs to maintain team performance.

• Resourcefully trains teams to manage daily schedules to strategically adapt to sudden changes while surpassing production and quality aims.

• Responsible for proven office sales growth and business grown by means of implementation of new protocols, procedures and motivational strategies.

• Recruit, train polish new and seasoned dental professionals to fit new roles, to exceed managements specific needs. maximizing employee performance by finding their motivators and pivoting each training towards those.

• Clinical and environmental health and safety educator with the latest ADA, ADHA, and DHA guidelines always in mind.

Registered Dental Hygienist

Palm Dental Group - West Palm Beach, FL

February 2022 to November 2023

• Perform all duties expected of a dental hygienist.

• Increased hygiene production by 70%

• Average 10 times my earnings on a regular basis.

• Enroll elective dental treatment and do so with ease and grace, allowing patients to get excited about their future smiles.

• Implemented a strict hygiene/periodontal program which has been well received by the patients who have historically been prophy or perio maintenance patients generally. Registered Dental Hygienist

IDental - Delray Beach, FL

June 2020 to February 2022

• Increased overall office treatment by 35% by discussing elective treatments such as veneers or full mouth rehab.

• Increased hygiene department revenue by 60% by simply doing what the patient needs every single time, educating and going at the patients pace to earn trust.

• Implemented a spa dental environment, which I refer to as “organic sedation”, simply creating an atmosphere of overall non-dental bliss, of which I not only encourage at my new practice but will share with enthusiasm, the secrets that I have made a name for myself with, that patients are blown away by! Account Manager/Sales

DARBY DENTAL SUPPLY, LLC - Deerfield Beach, FL

July 2019 to January 2020

Dental business development specialist, sales focused, for Darby Dental Supply. Professor of Clinical and Didactic Dental Hygiene

Lincoln College of New England - Southington, CT

August 2008 to November 2017

Assisted in complete development of the dental hygiene program, and created multiple syllabus for dental hygiene program

• Successfully enabled the achievement of higher education institutional accreditation.

• Coordinated with director and implemented faculty-teaching modules to calibrate staff techniques, resulting in a 60% increase in students GPA.

• Head of off-site clinical faculty and outreach organizations, supervisor to 12 faculty members.

• Reduced departments inventory costs by over 50% through process improvement best practices and merchant negotiations.

• Created a dental hygiene board review course that brought in students from all over the tri-state area for board prep.

• Recorded and managed clinical safety inspection data. Successfully achieved 100% compliance throughout the period.

Field Sales Consultant

Henry Schein Dental - Berlin, CT

August 2014 to September 2017

Developed, managed and influenced business partnerships to increase sales with a target and achievement of $3 million a year.

● Sold merchandise, technology and equipment for the world's largest dental and pharmaceutical company, developing strategies and recognizing opportunities to gain new business by consulting, speaking at seminars and cold calling.

● Trained large and small teams on OSHA and HIPPA compliance.

● Created personalized procedures and interoffice team harmony courses, utilizing psychological personality intervention.

Registered Dental Hygienist

Dental Solutions of Glastonbury - Glastonbury, CT

August 2008 to July 2014

Increased department production by 30%, taking it out of the red, and finally into the black.

• Maintained a 97% acceptance rate of dental treatment/financial plans; highest in practice history.

• Highest grossing dental hygienist, earning largest commission check cut in practice history. Treatment Coordinator and Dental Hygienist

Atlanta Center for Cosmetic Dentistry - Atlanta, GA February 2005 to June 2008

Enrolled $10 million in sales, and secured two celebrity marketing campaigns, that drew 40% of new business in my first year.

● Acted as patient liaison to schedule, prescreen, and present dental treatment plans to patients in a fee for service practice.

● Unique customer service education, including training from Nordstrom, the Ritz Carlton, MAC, Tony Robbins and Zig Zigler.

Education

PhD Candidate in Organizational Leadership

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago - Chicago, IL September 2015 to May 2016

Masters of Educational and Organizational Leadership in Education Northcentral University - Prescott Valley, AZ

September 2009 to May 2012

Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene

University of Bridgeport

May 2008

Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene

University of Bridgeport

May 2003

Associate in General Studies

Middlesex Community College - Middletown, CT

September 1997 to May 2001

Skills

• Account Management

• Cold Calling

• Powerpoint

• Sales

• Salesforce

• CRM

• Inventory Management

• Corporate business development (10+ years)

• Mergers & Acquisitions (8 years)

• Group practice growth (8 years)

• Corporate leadership (8 years)

• Dentrix (10+ years)

• Eaglesoft (10+ years)

• Medical Software (10+ years)

• Dental software (10+ years)

• Dental anesthesia (10+ years)

• Radiographer (10+ years)

• Educator (10+ years)

• Collateral Development (10+ years)

• MS Office

• Microsoft Word

• Dental Assisting

• Project Leadership

• Business Consulting

• Higher Education Teaching

• Infection Control Training

• Research & Development

• Computer Networking

• Medical Imaging

• Chairside Assisting

• Change Management

• Project Management

• Process Improvement

• Financial Analysis

• Financial Planning

• Medical Scheduling

• Business Analysis

• Laboratory Experience

• Recruiting

• Negotiation

• Program Development

• Documentation review

• Team Management

• Program Management

• Management

• Forecasting

Links

http://linkedin.com/in/stacey-jean-ehlers-r-d-h-m-ed-02485b4b http://www.directorypatent.com/US/7648050.html

http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/article_display.html?id=260174 Awards

Kappa Dental Pi

May 2012

• Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, is an honor society for education. It was founded in 1911 and was one of the first discipline-specific honor societies. Its membership is limited to the top 20 percent of those entering the field of education.

• To be inducted as a member of Kappa Delta Pi Zeta Zeta, undergraduate students must have: completed 6 credit hours in education courses. with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.55 upon graduation.

• Only those invited and welcomed will be allowed entry into Kappa Delta Pi and will be honored with its regalia At graduation.

Golden Key Honor Society

May 2012

• The Golden Key International Honour Society is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognize academic achievement among college and university students.

• Golden Key is the world’s largest collegiate honor society. Membership into the Society is by invitation only and applies to the top 15% of top-performing graduate students in all fields of study, based solely on their academic achievements.

Certifications and Licenses

Registered Dental Hygienist

May 2003 to November 2024

Driver's License

Present

CPR Certification

Local Anesthesia

2006 to Present

Certified dental anesthetist. Local anesthesia certificate. CT 2006 with no expiration. Fla local as well BLS Certification

June 2023 to June 2025

Patents

Fluoride Machine (#US7648050)

Publications

A Chance Encounter

https://www.rdhmag.com/career-profession/students/article/16409033/a-chance-encounter July 2006

A brief synopses of my early career.

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