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Supercharge your clinic with fun-to-follow training and proven, easy-to-deploy protocols that reduce errors, slash stress and empower your staff to perform like pros, even when the unexpected arises.

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✔️ Bring calm to your clinic

✔️ Never again hear staff say “I’m too busy to train”

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Dear fellow vet,

Tell me, if this scenario sounds familiar… 👀

It’s a busy day in clinics. Numerous patients need sedation for radiographs or other diagnostics.

The Clinic Veterinarian prescribes a drug combination and specific doses, maybe Dexmedetomidine and Butorphanol, for the veterinary technician to administer. Then you - the technician - administer those medications, and.... it's not going well.

The young cat the doctor saw who needs radiographs of their forelimb for limping is now stressed, fearful, and struggling. You try to track down the doctor to amend the protocol - maybe ask for the addition of Ketamine for pain - but they're in an appointment that's lasting way longer than anticipated, on lunch, or maybe in the OR trying to focus on surgery.

Leaving you with a partially-sedated patient and a bottleneck in radiology of all the other patients waiting to be sedated.

What if I told you there is a way to never face this challenge again?

Hi. 👋🏼 I’m Michelle.

I’m an LVT, VTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia), and I’ve served as the Director of Training and Education at the ASPCA Animal Hospital for the last 9 years. I also happen to be a registered yoga, breath work, and meditation instructor (but more on that later), and I’ve got a slew of other certifications in adult learning principles, conflict de-escalation, and instructional design.

Let me tell you a little more about my background… Before joining the ASCPA, I worked at Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York City.

I worked the first half of my career- 15 years - at the Animal Medical Center in NYC. I spent countless hours at one of the busiest hospitals on the east coast, eventually becoming team leader of anesthesia in charge of expediting flow and training of all incoming anesthetists. I’ve spend the latter part of my career in shelter medicine working as Director of Training and Education at the ASPCA focusing on access to care and staff wellness.

It is now my mission to bridge the gap between specialty medicine and general practice. I’ve seen how both function best and I’ve developed trainings and SOPs to demystify complex anesthesia principles so they are easy to understand and train in new staff. Passionate about veterinary technician utilization, I help employ onboarding and training techniques to recruit new staff and hold on to the ones you have. Formally burnout and stressed out, I now also help staff better understand stress management, time management, and wellness practices based on evidence based research and my multiple years as a yoga and meditation instructor.

So….I’d love to know - how can I help YOU best?

Clients I’ve helped

Conferences I’ve spoken at

  • “I am blown away by Michelle's informational presentations every time and this was no different! She deeply thinks about the message, the audience, and long term behavior impacts.”

    — 2023 “8 steps to Impactful Presentations” Lecture attendee

  • “Michelle is a PRO. She's engaging, funny, so well spoken and I don't think there are other meetings that hold everyone's attention like they do for Michelle's presentations.”

    — 2023 “8 steps to Impactful Presentations” Lecture attendee

  • “I liked the emphasis on creating a learning environment. Helped reinforce what we’re trying to do when we give a presentation—less about ourselves and more about the audience. Very good perspective to have, and helpful when it comes to presentation anxiety too.”

    — 2024 “Training in the Flow of Work” lecture attendee

  • “I think Michelle could present on any topic and can make it fun and engaging. Her passion for teaching comes through in every way when she has an audience.”

    — 2022 lecture attendee

  • “Michelle’s lecture style is relaxed and approachable. The information presented is based on published studies, with references as well as pearls of wisdom from her many years of experience."

    — Dr. Hope Jankunas, DVM