Speaking & Workshops
Better conversations. Better care. Better outcomes.
Flora Couper is a Registered Dental Hygienist, clinical educator, and speaker with over 30 years of experience in dentistry. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical practice and team development, and she speaks to the dental and aesthetics profession on the subjects that connect the two: how teams communicate, how practice systems are designed, and how to enhance the patient experience.
Her programmes have been developed through her own clinical experience, the principles of NLP, and a colour-based psychometric framework for understanding how people think, communicate, and make decisions. The result is content that is practically grounded, behaviourally informed, and built for the realities of clinical life.
Flora delivers webinars, lectures and workshops for conferences, study clubs, and online education.
Flora's philosophy is simple: When teams communicate with clarity, confidence, and care, everyone wins.
The topics below represent her core speaking areas.
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Communication and Treatment Presentation
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Business Management
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The Therapist and Hygienist Models
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New Patient Consultations
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The Team
Everything can be adapted and adjusted to suit your event, your audience, and what you need your attendees to take away. If something resonates but isn't quite the right fit, get in touch; there's usually a version of it that is.
Treatment Presentation
Four Colour Energies, Four Presentation Strategies
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand the four colour energy profiles from a behavioural psychometric framework and how they show up in patient behaviour and decision-making
- Identify which energy a patient leads with and adapt your presentation style to meet them where they are
- Apply a tailored communication approach for each colour profile to improve treatment acceptance and patient confidence
Communication That Gets Patients to Say Yes Without Selling
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand why patients say "I'll think about it" and what's actually happening in that moment
- Learn language frameworks that educate and inform rather than persuade or pressure
- Build confidence presenting treatment plans and discussing fees naturally as part of the consultation
Practice management
Run Your Diary Before Your Diary Runs You
Best for: Business team, Dentists, Therapists and Hygienists
- Understand the structural reasons behind stressful, unpredictable, and low-revenue clinical days
- Learn the principles of diary zoning and how to design a schedule that serves your energy, your clinical goals, and your revenue
- Leave with a clear first step for taking deliberate control of your own diary
The Clinician, the Reception Team, and the Diary
Best for: The whole team
- Understand why patients say "I'll think about it" and what's actually happening in that moment
- Learn language frameworks that educate and inform rather than persuade or pressure
- Build confidence presenting treatment plans and discussing fees naturally as part of the consultation
The Therapists and Hygienists Models
Is Your Hygiene Room Designed,or Just Happening?
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Identify which of the four hygiene room states your room currently sits in,and be honest about what that costs you
- Understand the structural elements that make the difference between an adequate and a genuinely optimised hygiene room
- Leave with a clear picture of what needs to change and a starting point for making it happen
How to Design a Hygiene Room You're Proud to Work In
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand what a purposefully designed hygiene room looks and feels like from the clinician's perspective
- Learn the key structural and clinical elements that make appointments more fulfilling, more effective, and better for patients
- Identify the one change that would have the most immediate impact on how you experience your working day
How to Design a Hygiene Room That Delivers,Every Appointment
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand what consistent, high-quality hygiene appointments require beyond clinical skill
- Learn how to structure each appointment so it serves both the patient's health journey and the practice's clinical and business goals
- Leave with a practical framework for designing appointments that deliver reliably,not just on a good day
The Optimised Hygiene Department: How to Design It, Lead It, and Measure It
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand what an optimised hygiene department looks like from a clinical, operational, and business perspective
- Learn how to lead the change from adequate to optimised,including how to bring your team with you
- Identify the key metrics that tell you whether your hygiene department is truly performing or just running
Five Mistakes Practices Make with Their Hygiene Department
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Recognise the five most common structural and operational mistakes that hold hygiene departments back from their potential
- Understand the real cost of each mistake: clinical, financial, and human
- Leave with a clear action plan for addressing the mistakes most relevant to your practice right now
New Patient Consultations
The New Patient System: How Structure Creates Confidence
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand why communication skills alone aren't enough without a system to hang them on
- Learn the key stages of a structured new patient consultation and how each stage builds on the last
- See how following a system builds clinical confidence, reduces overwhelm on complex cases, and removes the pressure to have all the answers immediately
The System Behind Designing a Stellar Consultation
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand why the pressure to give an immediate opinion can undermine both the clinician and the patient
- Learn how a structured consultation system creates the space for co-diagnosis and considered treatment presentation
- Leave with practical tools to reduce consultation overwhelm and increase patient confidence in the decisions they make
The Consultation System That Takes the Pressure Off
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand why the pressure to give an immediate opinion can undermine both the clinician and the patient
- Learn how a structured consultation system creates the space for co-diagnosis and considered treatment presentation
- Leave with practical tools to reduce consultation overwhelm and increase patient confidence in the decisions they make
Patient Journey Design
Know Yourself, Know Your Team, Know Your Patient
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand the four colour energies from a psychometric framework and how they show up in yourself, your team, and your patients
- Recognise where your own energy style creates flow,and where it creates friction,in clinical interactions and team dynamics
- Learn how to use this awareness to communicate more effectively at every level of the practice
Your Practice Ecosystem: The 8 Touchpoints That Make or Break Patient Retention
Best for: dentists, dental therapists, hygienists & treatment co-ordinators
- Understand the eight touchpoints that make up the complete patient journey through your practice, and how each one feeds the next
- Identify where the gaps and deficits in your current ecosystem are appearing and how they connect to patient retention and revenue
- Leave with a framework for viewing your practice as an integrated system, rather than a collection of separate appointments and departments
Let's talk about your event
Whether you're planning a webinar series, a study day, a conference slot, or something in between, get in touch to discuss what would work best for your audience and what you want them to leave with.
