Leading From The Inside Out

Emotional Intelligence for Stronger Teams, Better Patient Care, and a Thriving Practice

Dentistry is human long before it’s clinical. People don’t just bring a problem to solve—they bring fear, shame, stories, and sometimes trauma. Most of us were trained for procedures, documentation, and efficiency… not the emotional reality we step into all day.

Leading From the Inside Out is the guide I wish every dental professional had early on: how to lead yourself first—so you can lead your team, your patients, and your practice with more calm, clarity, and confidence. It’s built on emotional intelligence and real-world dentistry, with practical tools for communication, boundaries, accountability, and the moments that quietly shape culture. If you’re tired of carrying the invisible weight behind the day, this book gives you a new way to lead that doesn’t cost you your peace.

Dr. Kelly Tanner Leading From The Inside Out

WHAT’S INSIDE

This isn’t a book you’ll read and forget. It’s built to be used.

Part I — Lead Yourself
The moment it all broke. The mindset patterns running your leadership. Values, courage, and the emotional landscape of dentistry—plus “10 tiny moves” to start leading yourself in real time.

Part II — The Science of Emotional Intelligence & Human Behavior
Neuroscience, behavior change, emotional contagion, burnout physiology, cognitive load, and presence—so you finally understand what’s happening inside you and around you.

Part III — Lead Your Team
Psychological safety, culture as the treatment plan, strengths-based leadership, KPIs that tell the truth, conflict and accountability tools, and implementation strategies that don’t collapse after a meeting.

Part IV — Lead Your Patients
Emotional intelligence in patient care, generational intelligence, motivational interviewing, OARS, and the BRIDGE Model™ for conversations that build trust and increase follow-through.

Part V — Lead the Practice
Systems, SOPs, 1% operations, mentoring, and practice management with emotional intelligence—so the practice becomes stable, not stressful.

Part VII — Role-Specific Playbooks
Doctor. Hygienist. Assistant. Front office. Treatment coordinator. Scheduling.
Because “what this looks like” changes depending on the chair you sit in.

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Leading From The Inside Out

Emotional Intelligence for Stronger Teams, Better Patient Care, and a Thriving Practice

Dentistry is human long before it’s clinical. People don’t just bring a problem to solve—they bring fear, shame, stories, and sometimes trauma. Most of us were trained for procedures, documentation, and efficiency… not the emotional reality we step into all day.

WHAT’S INSIDE

This isn’t a book you’ll read and forget. It’s built to be used.

Part I — Lead YourselfThe moment it all broke. The mindset patterns running your leadership. Values, courage, and the emotional landscape of dentistry—plus “10 tiny moves” to start leading yourself in real time.

Part II — The Science of Emotional Intelligence & Human Behavior Neuroscience, behavior change, emotional contagion, burnout physiology, cognitive load, and presence—so you finally understand what’s happening inside you and around you.

Part III — Lead Your TeamPsychological safety, culture as the treatment plan, strengths-based leadership, KPIs that tell the truth, conflict and accountability tools, and implementation strategies that don’t collapse after a meeting.

Part IV — Lead Your PatientsEmotional intelligence in patient care, generational intelligence, motivational interviewing, OARS, and the BRIDGE Model™ for conversations that build trust and increase follow-through.

Part V — Lead the PracticeSystems, SOPs, 1% operations, mentoring, and practice management with emotional intelligence—so the practice becomes stable, not stressful.

Part VII — Role-Specific PlaybooksDoctor. Hygienist. Assistant. Front office. Treatment coordinator. Scheduling.Because “what this looks like” changes depending on the chair you sit in.