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Creating a sustainable veterinary profession

Supporting veterinary clinics and animal shelters to build positive, resilient, and sustainable teams.

Most ideal for independent practices, animal shelters, and teams struggling with attrition, burnout or culture.

People Solutions for the Animal Industry

Keeping veterinary and animal care professionals in the industry involves helping teams with resilience, emotional intelligence, and fulfillment, while also assisting leaders in creating businesses that make it easier to be resilient and fulfilled.

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Psychosocial Safety

In-house and workshops available

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Training and Workshops

One-off and bespoke programmes

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Real-World Resilience Programme

In-House and Mastermind options

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Vet4Life New Graduate Academy

Enquire now for 2026 cohort

Our most popular package:

Thriving Veterinary Teams

Real People, Real Talk, Real Impact

Package Inclusions

Workshop 1: Thriving as an Individual
 

  • Resilience 101: Managing stress, setbacks, and self-care.

  • Understanding the difference between a tough job and a toxic workplace.

  • Emotional intelligence, growth mindset, and positive psychology.

  • Ethics vs. morals—navigating complex decisions.

  • Busyness, boundaries, and personal fulfillment.

Workshop 2: Thriving as a Team
 

  • Culture: What do we want, beyond just a “good” workplace?

  • Practical psychosocial safety—more than just a buzzword.

  • Navigating difficult conversations and interpersonal dynamics.

  • Protecting against incivility, gossip, and toxic behaviors.

Workshop 3: Thriving as an Organisation
 

  • Are we truly rowing in the same direction?

  • Creating shared commitment to clinic success.

  • Organisational design for wellbeing and productivity.

  • Challenging the status quo—constructively.

  • Transparency, collaboration, and decision-making.

That's three 1/2 day workshops from only
$5,999

Package Add-Ons

Mission, Vision, and Values Reset
 

Mission, Vision, and Values Reset – A dedicated workshop to redefine what your clinic stands for, and ensure everyone is rowing in the same direction.

Essential for avoiding "Words on the Wall", and defining your authentic culture and positioning.

 Leadership Support
 

Two extra workshops for leadership teams:

  • The pillars of building a thriving culture.

  • What actually works vs. what just feels good.

  • Practical strategies tailored to your clinic.

Culture Consultation

Direct, bespoke, in-house diagnostics, recommendations, and guidance to reset your culture, transform toxicity, provide psychosocial safety, and create a pathway forwards for your organisation.

Workshop Collection

Below are a series of our most popular workshops for veterinary teams and leaders. They can be delivered as standalone sessions, or work best as a programme of sessions that build upon one another over time to create sustainable and meaningful progress.

All our sessions can be tailored and adapted to be specific for your clinic and your challenges, with focus areas, key concepts, activities and examples able to be created bespoke in collaboration with you.

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From Surviving to Thriving

The veterinary industry has focused greatly in recent years on reducing burnout, preventing suicide, and improving support systems for issues such as compassion fatigue. But are we comfortable with aiming for not being mentally unwell, or do we want to strive for more? Should our people, as individuals and as teams, start to expect more than just ‘not being burnt out’, and instead start to expect to have a great life. To be content, and fulfilled, and to thrive. This session is about our mindset, the choices we make, and the tools that we need to not accept being ok, but to start the journey to great.

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Mission, Vision and Values

Having a clear Vision of where we are going, a clear Mission of what we're trying to achieve, and well established Values of how we're going to deliver it, is essential for offering teams a sense of purpose, optimism, and moving towards something great. We can work with you to discover or update the right Mission, Vision and Values to align with your organisation and your team.

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People Leadership for Animal People

Specifically designed by an experienced senior veterinary leader, who has led large teams, made the tough calls, and transformed toxic cultures. This two-part workshop is NOT a corporate tick-box session by middle-aged men or academic optimists. It is designed to help real veterinary leaders cope with the challenges our teams throw at us, to balance authentic leadership with conflict, to be a compassionate leader while getting things done, and to still have energy left for your personal life.

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Creating psychologically safe workplaces

We all know that there are now legal obligations to ensure we are looking after the psychosocial safety of our teams. Some of us have even read the guidelines. But the logistics on how to actually do that in the real world of our profession that is full of risks remain elusive. We look at the practical steps and tools to create a realistic but safe workplaces, including the infrastructure, tools, systems, leadership, culture and support systems that we can put in place to both ensure we are following the legal requirements as well as doing the right thing for sustainable veterinary profession.

Team Building with Purpose

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Bespoke workshop content

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Designed specifically for your team and your current priorities, we build a bespoke team building half or full day. This is usually most successful as a combination of fun, light, perspective-shifting activities with engaging, thought-provoking content that allows substantial genuine participation in business decisions or planning.

Using our broad experience in the many aspects and challenges of veterinary teams, we can collaborate with you to build a workshop or series that best addresses the specific needs and current culture in your clinic.

Using the foundations already established combined with your expertise and knowledge of your team, we work with you to design the best outcomes for you and your team.

Veterinary Team Culture Options

We offer four different levels of support depending on your needs and stage of transformation, and will work with you to create the exact bespoke programme that will provide the most growth for you and your team.

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Training and
Workshops

We can provide a series of training workshops to your wider team and to your leaders, aimed at slowly building the foundations and awareness of resilience and emotional intelligence, progressing to more advanced growth and active transformation.

Workshops are run monthly for six months, with one for the whole team and one for the leadership team each month, designed to build and grow foundations and skills with time.

See workshop content here.

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Clinic Culture Collective

A four month mastermind programme with other veterinary leaders like you, all following a similar pathway but designed for your specific clinic, to transform toxic cultures into thriving ones.

You get the benefit of expert content, experienced mentoring and tested tactics to turnaround your team, at the same time as the support of peers and mentors across the profession all struggling with similar challenges.

Group sessions, one on one mentoring, and unlimited message support for troubleshooting and asking 'dumb questions' are all at your fingertips on the Clinic Culture Collective.

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Full support and
mentoring package

Bespoke, one-on-one culture review, recommendations and mentoring specifically for your clinic, your challenges, and your leadership.

Support and guidance can be offered on handling challenging conversations and people, performance managing unconstructive behaviours, change managing new ideas, leadership skills gaps, and rollout of cultural initiatives. You will also be supported to enhance your own leadership approach, resilience and wellbeing.
Small group cohort sessions are held with team members between each workshop to practice learnings and offer more personal guidance.

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Add-on or
ad-hoc support

Either as standalone services or add-ons to Packages 1, 2 or 3, we can provide bespoke quotes and advice for team support services including:
 

  • Coaching and preparing for complicated conversations

  • Change management support

  • Performance managing unconstructive behaviours

  • Establishing and getting buy-in for Mission, Vision and Values

  • One off workshops on resilience, positive psychology, wellbeing, career development, or leadership.

  • One-on-one leadership coaching and mentoring

  • One-on-one or small group coaching and mentoring for team members

We would love to hear your story, understand what challenges you and your organisation are facing, and help you and your team become the best you can be.

Happy Customers Include

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Testimonials

Dalmatian Dog

Jess has been an incredible mentor. She has given me so much support from the very first day we met and has helped so much with all of the challenges that have come up in my first few years of practice. 

 

She has this incredible ability to take my jumbled thought processes or worries and clarify them into something we can work through together. I am someone who particularly struggles with conflict, and always have. It has been so valuable to have someone who can push me when I need it and helped me reframe my way of dealing. 

—  Alice, Taranaki Vet Centre

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