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Leading Women in Dental: Susan Greenspon-Rammelt Susan Greenspon-Rammelt is Chief Legal Officer, EVP of Business Affairs, Corporate Secretary, and a member of the Board of Directors of SmileDirectClub, the next generation oral care company with the first medtech platform for teeth straightening. Prior to SmileDirectClub, Susan served as a corporate law partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, where she represented domestic and international enterprises, and a partner at Dentons US LLP. In the following Q&A, Susan discusses her involvement as a founding board member of Women in DSO, as well as how SmileDirectClub partners with dentist entrepreneurs in their growth journeys. Mentorship has been one Q: You are a founding of the most meaningful board member at parts of my career. I have Women In DSO®. Can you tell us why you been fortunate enough to wanted to be involved? mentor many emerging A: As a woman in the legal female leaders over the Susan GreensponRammelt profession, I have long been last 20 years. It is increda proponent of encouraging ibly rewarding to have and developing female leaders. It’s played even a small part of so many extremely important for all of those career growth journeys and knowing in a leadership position – both men the impact these leaders will make and women – to mentor and inspire to better our world. the next generation of female We have a lot planned for our leaders to create a more balanced Women in DSO members and future industry. I was excited to have the members. Beyond mentorship iniopportunity to join Dr. Aman and tiatives, we also provide networking Women in DSO, and I look forward opportunities. Building relationships to the work we will do to create a is so key to creating a community of much needed and important space female leaders and I look forward to for the next generation of leaders meeting more women in the indusin DSOs. try and really being able to kick off some of those opportunities in Vegas Q: What are the goals or initiathis month. tives you are looking forward to working on with Women In DSO®? Q: As a leader at SmileDirectClub, A: I am really looking forward to what opportunities does your the mentorship initiatives that we organization have to help dentist have started and will continue to entrepreneurs in their growth launch through Women in DSO. journeys? Specifically, women?
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A: At SmileDirectClub, we look for opportunities to profile, support, and celebrate female dentists and orthodontists that want to embrace change, technology, innovation and share in our mission to democratize access to care. We recently partnered with celebrity cosmetic dentist, Dr. Amira Ogunleye. Dr. Amira is part of the SmileDirectClub Partner Network and really exemplifies our mission in her day-to-day work. Dr. Amira provides opportunities to aspiring women leaders through her many pursuits, including the recent launch of her mentorship program that will support the next generation leaders within the dental industry. We look forward to continuing to work with many women in the dental industry both internally within our dental team and externally with our many Partner Network doctors. Practice growth is also at the top of our list to support dental entrepreneurs. Through our Partner Network, dentists and orthodontists now have the ability to offer SmileDirectClub clear aligners to their patients. With cost and convenience as the two big brand differentiators for our business model, we are giving doctors the opportunity to easily add a new service offering for their patients while also enabling them to reach more patients through our marketing efforts and in-turn, grow their practice.
DENTIST ENTREPRENEUR ORGANIZATION • MARCH/APRIL 2022
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