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OPERATORS TO OWNERS: Our mission is developing veterinary leaders via the supplementation of formal education beyond the classroom in the form of podcasts, written media, one on on coaching, mastermind groups, and lectures. This allow us to connect peer-reviewed professional development research to the field practitioner at a tangible level. The ultimate goal of which is to push continual professional growth, while endorsing enjoyment of the process. Thereby creating leaders who live lives of happiness, as defined by success on their own terms. SPEAKER and CONSULTANT: Dr. Eric Rooker enjoys speaking on a wide breadth of topics ranging from psychology, to marketing, medical diagnostics and management skills. This breadth is by choice as he enjoys making connections between previously ignored or unscrutinized fields; allowing the listener to leverage his learnings for their benefit. This generalist mentality, in a world of specialists, allows his message to resonate with a broad range of…
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Veterinary Professional Development Specialist
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Dr. Rooker believes Salutogenic Veterinary Medicine is the best way to craft positive mental health and professional development within the veterinary profession. Salutogenesis is defined as, "A scholarly orientation focusing attention on the study of the origins of health and assets for health, contra the origins of disease and risk factors." To this end Dr. Rooker continues to study the latest research about preventative interventions that aid in the motivation and development of professionals across all fields. Through this research he has identified and received extensive training and certifications that have been proven, via peer-reviewed research, to create measurable increases in individuals well-being, life satisfaction and to induce a state of salutogenic flourishing in the individual. Tools that he has currently identified and utilizes to help our clients include (but are not limited to): Positive Psychology - Growth Mindset Training Self-Determination Theory - Creating Motiv…
Public Speaker - Freelance
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In January 2019 Dr. Rooker founded Operators to Owners LLC, which is a business dedicated to peer-based veterinary education. His consulting business has a focus in positive psychology and utilizes peer validated research in this area to impact mental wellbeing and personal development for practitioners in the mixed animal, dairy, and beef specialties. To this end Dr. Rooker uses Operators to Owners as a vehicle to facilitate the spread of the skills, tools, tactics, and habits that lead veterinarians to successful careers, businesses, and lives. Using small peer-mentorship groups called masterminds, large convention type speaking events, a monthly podcast, and 1-on-1 coaching he and his team seek to help practitioners craft a self-determined career that is shaped not by the circumstances around them, but instead by their own unique interests and desires. This shifts their role from simple whack-a-mole type operators within their daily lives toward taking true ownership of their develo…
Freelance Writer
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Operators to Owners uses writing as a vehicle to facilitate the spread of the skills, tools, tactics, and habits that lead veterinarians to successful careers, businesses, and lives. Our articles seek to shift a veterinarians role from simple whack-a-mole type operators within their daily lives toward taking true ownership of their development. If you're interested in a freelance article please contact us at dr.eric@otovets.com.
Clinic Owner and Ambulatory Veterinarian
Dairy Doctors Veterinary Services · Plymouth, Wisconsin
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Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctorate, Veterinary Medicine
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