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Conflict got you down? Are you feeling the effects of a crisis or transition in your office? Do you struggle to treat patients with emotional or physical pain?

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Conflict got you down? Are you feeling the effects of a crisis or transition in your office? Do you struggle to treat patients with emotional or physical pain?

If so, Dr. Kim Harms can help! Her goal is to help untangle problems and support those with grief issues by sharing that accumulated knowledge with seminar attendees.

With 30-years in clinical dentistry and 21 years as a National Spokesperson for the American Dental Association, Kimberly Harms DDS has seen the importance of positive communication, management of conflict and relationship building firsthand.

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Dr Kimberly Harms speaking at Dental Speaker Institute's JUMPSTART event

If so, Dr. Kim Harms can help! Her goal is to help untangle problems and support those with grief issues by sharing that accumulated knowledge with seminar attendees.

With 30-years in clinical dentistry and 21 years as a National Spokesperson for the American Dental Association, Kimberly Harms DDS has seen the importance of positive communication, management of conflict and relationship building firsthand.

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The Worst Has Happened: Now What? Building Your Team to Survive and Thrive Through Crisis and Loss

This seminar focuses on rebuilding a team after a catastrophic loss has sent at least one member deep into the grief pit.
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Detangling Dentistry’s Most Difficult Discussions
and Dilemmas: Tales from the Complaint Desk

Learn how to build trust, prepare your team, prevent dilemmas, and manage inevitable conflict. Understand how to handle difficult situations with patients.
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Neutralize Your Nightmares: Promote Office 
 Harmony through Structured Conflict Management
Develop a process for improving the management of clinical and administrative errors. Learn how to accept appropriate responsibility, address concerns with empathy and provide resolutions.
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When the Pain is in the Brain:
Emotional Turmoil, Stress and Grief

Increase your understanding of the emotional needs of patients, team members, families, even yourself and promote greater harmony in your personal and professional life.
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The Pain Wars: Acute vs Chronic
 Confessions of a Pain Rehab Graduate
Learn the causes, costs and effective treatments for pain. Explore side effects such as depression, anxiety and stress as well as complementary and alternative medical options.
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To Floss or Not To Floss: That is the Question
How do we encourage our patients to trust their local dental professional as their number one oral health information source? Gain the verbal skills necessary to guide patients in the process of critically analyzing information they receive from media outlets.
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The Worst Has Happened: Now What? Building Your Team to Survive and Thrive Through Crisis and Loss

This seminar focuses on rebuilding a team after a catastrophic loss has sent at least one member deep into the grief pit.
Image COURSE DESCRIPTION

Detangling Dentistry’s Most Difficult Discussions
and Dilemmas: Tales from the Complaint Desk

Learn how to build trust, prepare your team, prevent dilemmas, and manage inevitable conflict. Understand how to handle difficult situations with patients.
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Neutralize Your Nightmares: Promote Office 
 Harmony through Structured Conflict Management
Develop a process for improving the management of clinical and administrative errors. Learn how to accept appropriate responsibility, address concerns with empathy and provide resolutions.
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When the Pain is in the Brain:
Emotional Turmoil, Stress and Grief

Increase your understanding of the emotional needs of patients, team members, families, even yourself and promote greater harmony in your personal and professional life.
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The Pain Wars: Acute vs Chronic
 Confessions of a Pain Rehab Graduate
Learn the causes, costs and effective treatments for pain. Explore side effects such as depression, anxiety and stress as well as complementary and alternative medical options.
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To Floss or Not To Floss: That is the Question
How do we encourage our patients to trust their local dental professional as their number one oral health information source? Gain the verbal skills necessary to guide patients in the process of critically analyzing information they receive from media outlets.
Presentations (Partial Listing)
  • Smilecon 2021: American Dental Association Annual Meeting
  • Academy of General Dentistry National Meeting
  • Nebraska Dental Association
  • Niagara Dental Association
    (Canada)
  • University of California Los Angeles
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Rwanda Dental School
  • University of Maryland Dental School (Dressel Lecture)
  • University of Minnesota Dental School (Seminars and Commencement Address)
  • Orange County Dental Hygiene Association
  • AADOM Minnesota and New Jersey
  • Dentaltown
  • American Educational Institute
  • American Dental Association President’s Forum
  • World Dental Federation International Women’s Leadership Conference
  • ASDA National Leadership Conference
  • ASDA National Summit
  • Chicago Midwinter Meeting
  • Star of the North
  • Hawaii Dental Seminars
  • Minnesota Dental Association
  • South Dakota Dental Association
  • Michigan Dental Association

See Kim in Action

When the Pain is in the Brain
Calamity, catastrophe and emotional illness can happen to any of us. Dr. Harms will help attendees prepare, manage, cope and eventually find joy in the ashes.
Entrepreneurial Bootcamp
Dr. Harms has a long history of a life in dentistry and shared some of that information with new dentists at the Minnesota Dental Association's first Entrepreneur Bootcamp.

A "MUST ATTEND" FOR EVERY DENTAL PROFESSIONAL

"Inspired. Profoundly moved. Dr. Kim Harms' presentations speak to innately human emotions and situations that can literally stop us in our tracks. She offers tools, resources and processes for helping dental professionals get through life's most challenging situations. These courses are a 'must attend' for every dental professional!"

Vanessa Emerson, Founder
Dental Speaker Institute
Dental Speakes Bureau

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She is a profound influencer!

Occasionally I meet a person who 'has it all'...education, experience, poise, purpose, passion, pathos, problem-solving savvy, and GREAT presentation skills! Such is Dr. Kimberly Harms. She will be 'remembered', quoted, referred, read, and asked back for another and another presentation because she is a profound influencer!

-Naomi Rhode, RDH, CSP, CPAE

Bring Dr. Harms to Speak at Your Next Event!

CONTACT US
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She is a profound influencer!

Occasionally I meet a person who 'has it all'...education, experience, poise, purpose, passion, pathos, problem-solving savvy, and GREAT presentation skills! Such is Dr. Kimberly Harms. She will be 'remembered', quoted, referred, read, and asked back for another and another presentation because she is a profound influencer!

-Naomi Rhode, RDH, CSP, CPAE

Bring Dr. Harms to Speak at Your Next Event!

CONTACT US