Why Colin Campbell bought my business

Chris Barrow has spent decades advising dental practice owners on building, growing and eventually selling their businesses. In this episode of Conversations with Chris, the tables have turned.

For the first time, Chris interviews not simply a client, colleague or friend, but the man whose organisation acquired his business: Colin Campbell, founder of The Campbell Academy.

Their conversation begins with the story behind the acquisition of Professional Coaching Services and the Extreme Business programme. Why did Colin want to bring Chris and the Extreme Business Community into The Campbell Academy? What made the relationship work? And what can dental practice owners contemplating their own eventual sale learn from their experience of due diligence, trust, shared values and the sometimes challenging process of integration?

Chris and Colin also discuss one of the uncomfortable realities of selling a dental practice: accepting the highest offer may mean accepting that the new owner will change the culture, systems and values of the business you created.

The conversation then looks forward.

Chris and Colin explain their vision for business education within The Campbell Academy and introduce the new “ladder” of support available to independent dental practice owners: free educational resources, the six-week Digital Dental Entrepreneur Programme, the immersive five-day Dental Business Boot Camp, the Campbell Clubhouse and, ultimately, the Extreme Business Community.

They also reveal some significant changes planned for Extreme Business in 2027, including a new one-day, two-room workshop format designed to give owners and their teams greater flexibility and access to clinical and business education.

Underpinning everything is a shared belief that successful independent dentistry requires commercially successful, values-driven businesses.

And a simple Campbell Academy ambition:

To positively influence the lives of as many people as possible through the work they do and the example they set.

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