Katherine Eitel Belt
Katherine Eitel Belt, CSP, is Dentistry’s Unscripted Communications Coach!
Katherine is the founder and CEO of LionSpeak as well as an international speaker, author, and performance coach. She is best known for helping professionals develop courageous, unscripted conversations with patients, clients, co-workers, and audiences. Whether communicating from a treatment room, consult room, boardroom, or stage, audiences love her simple yet powerful formulas for delivering messages with clarity, courage, and inspiration.
For over 35 years Katherine has keynoted annual conferences in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., coached thousands of dental professionals in hundreds of practices, and consulted or presented for companies such as Care Credit, Henry Schein, Kois Center, Aurum Group, Patterson Dental, Dentsply Sirona, e-Assist, Seattle Study Club, Cain Watters, Pacific Dental Services, Dental Intel, and Philips Oral Healthcare.
Katherine is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), an earned designation of the National Speakers Association achieved by less than 17% of speakers worldwide and she is one of only ten dental professionals to hold the certification. She is a Spotlight-On-Speaking champion, Speaking Consulting Network founding member, past-president of the Academy of Dental Management Consultants, AADOM/ASCA member, faculty member for the Dental Business Institute and the Dental Speakers Institute, faculty instructor for the Texas Tech University Dental School in El Paso, Board Advisor Emeritus for Dental Entrepreneur Women (DeW), voted “2023 Speaker of the Year” at the Dental Festival and “Favorite Dental Speaker” by the 2023 Nifty Awards and the Linda Miles Spirit Award for her contributions to the dental industry.
She was recently featured in the documentary film, Women Shaping Dentistry Tomorrow, and her latest book, Something’s Gotta Change! Mastering Courageous Conversations to Create Clarity and Inspire Change, is scheduled for release Summer of 2025.
Katherine Eitel Belt, CSP, is Dentistry’s Unscripted Communications Coach!
Katherine is the founder and CEO of LionSpeak as well as an international speaker, author, and performance coach. She is best known for helping professionals develop courageous, unscripted conversations with patients, clients, co-workers, and audiences. Whether communicating from a treatment room, consult room, boardroom, or stage, audiences love her simple yet powerful formulas for delivering messages with clarity, courage, and inspiration.
For over 35 years Katherine has keynoted annual conferences in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., coached thousands of dental professionals in hundreds of practices, and consulted or presented for companies such as Care Credit, Henry Schein, Kois Center, Aurum Group, Patterson Dental, Dentsply Sirona, e-Assist, Seattle Study Club, Cain Watters, Pacific Dental Services, Dental Intel, and Philips Oral Healthcare.
Katherine is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), an earned designation of the National Speakers Association achieved by less than 17% of speakers worldwide and she is one of only ten dental professionals to hold the certification. She is a Spotlight-On-Speaking champion, Speaking Consulting Network founding member, past-president of the Academy of Dental Management Consultants, AADOM/ASCA member, faculty member for the Dental Business Institute and the Dental Speakers Institute, faculty instructor for the Texas Tech University Dental School in El Paso, Board Advisor Emeritus for Dental Entrepreneur Women (DeW), voted “2023 Speaker of the Year” at the Dental Festival and “Favorite Dental Speaker” by the 2023 Nifty Awards and the Linda Miles Spirit Award for her contributions to the dental industry.
She was recently featured in the documentary film, Women Shaping Dentistry Tomorrow, and her latest book, Something’s Gotta Change! Mastering Courageous Conversations to Create Clarity and Inspire Change, is scheduled for release Summer of 2025.
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Leaders of The Pride
Creating an Aligned, Accountable, and Positive Team
If your team struggles with turnover, low performance, negativity, gossip, or petty conflicts... a total team transformation is easier and faster than you think! Katherine Eitel Belt, Dentistry's Unscripted Communication Expert, believes personal leadership and high-performing teams are created with three basic things: clear expectations, a positive culture, and courageous communication skills.
In this engaging presentation,...
Calibration Retreats/Programs
Whether you manage 2 people or 200, join Katherine Eitel Belt, the Unscripted Communication Expert, as she takes teams through the process of realigning the entire team around the owner(s) vision and produce strategies for accomplishing that vision with clear action items, team commitments, and accountability processes.
Katherine Eitel Belt brings years of experience in dental and healthcare coaching as well as excellent group facilitation skills to help practices raise the bar for...
Transformational Trainer's Workshop
Learn how to:
- Teach it so they really, really get it!
- Train for independence and elevate self-esteem
- Be the manager that employees want to follow
- Increase competence and accountability
- Adapt material for one-on-one coaching, group trainings, remote/online formats, employee orientations
- Put the fun back into learning without looking silly!
- Read your participants level of understanding
- "Chunk" your material...
Courageous Conversations
Mastering the Important Conversations You've Been Avoiding
A cornerstone of productive, positive work cultures is the ability to communicate within a team with compassion, accountability, non-judgment, and accuracy. This presentation will help owners, managers, and team members stop avoiding these important conversations and learn to embrace and succeed with them by using a self-management checklist and a simple 4-step conversation framework. This presentation includes real-life...
Growing Cubs into Lions
Deliver Killer Trainings That Create Mastery, Accountability, and Independence for Your Team
Katherine Eitel Belt, a powerful, experienced trainer, shines a light on how to best deliver critical messages and empower adult learners to realize their full potential. You'll also learn how to navigate conflict and difficult personalities, as well as coach underperforming team members in a nonjudgmental yet powerful way.
Join Katherine for this inspirational and interactive safari...
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