Your blueprint to leadership success.
As a leader, you have the ability to shape workplace culture, influence patient outcomes, and help veterinary teams thrive in practice. Developing the skills you need to succeed as a leader in today’s dynamic veterinary business landscape starts here.
An Uncharted Leadership Essentials Certificate provides you with seven crucial building blocks to lead with confidence at any level and achieve excellence in your veterinary practice.
This new Certificate program offers 8 hours of CE in an on-demand format that will equip veterinary professionals to lead high-performing and collaborative teams.

Emerge as a leader
Set yourself apart and advance in your veterinary career with the skills you need to dive boldly into any leadership role.

Make waves in your practice
Sharpen your ability to build trust, be an effective coach, hold people accountable, achieve buy-in, and align your team's vision.

Grow and retain your leaders
Invest in your team. Provide resources for skill development and create a shared leadership philosophy across the clinic.
Chart Your Course.
Whether you’re looking to grow into a leadership role, a new leader or you’ve been in the game for a while, there are certain essential skills you need to be successful.
The Leadership Essentials Certificate program consists of seven courses focused on developing fundamental skills that can be built upon to grow and open new doors in your career. Earn your certificate with the full program or choose the individual course(s) that best fit your professional goals.

Leadership Essentials Certificate Program
The full Leadership Essentials Certificate program is designed for anyone who manages others or wants to grow into a management role in single or multi-site veterinary practices and includes seven courses:
Understanding The Trust Economy, Strategic Planning: Vision and Core Values, Communication Styles: DiSC, Feedback and Coaching, Achieving Team Buy-In, Setting Priorities, and Getting Priorities Done.

Course 1: Understanding the Trust Economy
Dive into the key components of building trusting relationships in practice. This course explores basics of behavioral psychology in building trust, various styles of leadership, 5 types of appreciation and how to utilize them in the clinic, and more.

Course 2: Strategic Planning | Vision and Core Values
Align your team’s vision for the practice. This course is about finding that motivating vision, creating a shared sense of purpose that inspires your team to take ownership, and balancing the needs of your team with those of your clients and your patients.

Course 3:
Communication Styles | DiSC
Understanding individual communication styles in relation to team dynamics is crucial in leading a successful veterinary practice. This course outlines how to utilize DiSC profiles to improve communication, feedback, and coaching across teams.

Course 4:
Feedback and Coaching
Are you providing effective coaching and feedback to team members? This course explores the differences between feedback and coaching and provides structured feedback models for both positive and critical feedback.

Course 5:
Achieving Team Buy-In
Achieving buy-in requires leading structured and productive team discussions. This course outlines a 10-step program to effectively engage a team, foster collaboration, and successfully implement changes in your practice.

Course 6:
Setting Priorities
Priority management is a vital skill for all veterinary leaders. This course outlines establishing team priorities, setting goals efficiently, and organizing tasks to achieve personal and professional success across your veterinary clinic.

Course 7:
Getting Priorities Done
Set priorities and accomplish goals while juggling all the day-to-day challenges of leading a busy veterinary practice. This course provides practical techniques and actionable steps necessary to execute your practice’s priority list.
Presented in partnership with VetFolio.
Uncharted Veterinary Conference is excited to partner with VetFolio, powered by NAVC, to deliver a new Certificate program; the Leadership Essentials Certificate. Led by Uncharted founder, Dr. Andy Roark, and delivered on VetFolio’s comprehensive, digital learning platform.
VetFolio, powered by the NAVC, is an educational resource mecca for veterinary professionals, releasing new content weekly in the form of webinars, podcasts, live virtual summits, certificates and more.
Explore all that VetFolio has to offer!
Leadership Essentials Certificate Program
Uncharted Members
- Seven essential leadership courses
- 8 hours of RACE CE credit
- Included with an Uncharted Membership
Leadership Essentials Certificate Program
Non-Members
- Seven essential leadership courses
- 8 hours of RACE CE credit
- 12-months of course access
This program has been approved for 8 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.
*The Leadership Essentials Certificate program is FREE for Uncharted Members.
If you’re already a member and have not claimed this benefit, please contact admin@unchartedvet.com.

Get things done in practice with an Uncharted Membership.
Uncharted Veterinary Conference is the conference that never ends. Founded by practice management speaker, writer and consultant Dr. Andy Roark, Uncharted leads the industry in business development, management and communication training for veterinary professionals at all levels of their careers.
An Uncharted Membership opens the door to all of the resources Uncharted has to offer. Access a vibrant online community for veterinary professionals to get advice in a positive, solution-oriented space. Participate in live in-person, live-virtual, on-demand, and hybrid learning opportunities that provide unique pathways for individuals and teams to focus on topics that make meaningful change in veterinary practice happen.