Learn. Physio Roadshow
A few weeks ago I was in Melbourne with the Learn.Physio roadshow, and I left reminded of why I love this industry.
The room was full of clinic owners who showed up because they are committed to improving their businesses which in turn impact the industry on a whole. That kind of energy is what keeps people engaged in the industry and begins to change the narrative around the high attrition we’ve been seeing. Suffice to say I think the future of the industry is in safe hands.
I shared a presentation on what makes a clinic valuable, even if you never sell it. It sits within the maximise equity segment of the health practitioner's journey, and it draws on something I've seen play out across my corporate career as much as in clinic ownership: the businesses that grow well are the ones built to last, not just to trade.
A couple of things I kept coming back to in the room:
Your ability to grow relationships really defines your future as a practitioner. Full stop. Referral networks, your team, your patients. Every meaningful outcome in your business traces back to a relationship you invested in.
And the time it takes to create genuine buy-in with your team? That's not overhead. That's the work. Culture doesn't install itself, and the clinic owners who take shortcuts there feel it eventually.
Mick Hughes from Learn.Physio also presented on ACLs, and it was a sharp reminder of how much the clinical landscape is shifting. The condition is showing up in a broader patient population than it used to, and non-operative management is gaining serious traction in the evidence base. What struck me most though was the conversation around AI and the informed patient. Patients are walking in having done their research. Clinics that train their practitioners to meet that patient with confidence and build trust in that moment, rather than feeling threatened by it, will have a real competitive edge.
The roadshow is one part of what Learn.Physio does, and if you haven't explored their platform yet, it's worth your time. They've built a CPD learning hub designed specifically for Allied Health practitioners, covering everything from masterclasses and clinical lectures to roundtables and research summaries. The format is genuinely flexible, so it fits around a full clinical load rather than competing with it. What I appreciate most is that the content is built to be applied actively which is part of what I talked about in my presentation. That philosophy showed up clearly in the room at the event.
A huge thank you to the sponsors who made the evening possible.
Bared hosted us for the night, and if you haven't come across them, they're a podiatrist-backed shoe brand that actually managed to make clinical thinking look good. I walked away with a pair and I'd genuinely recommend them.
And VALD Performance , whose human performance technology is trusted by high-performance organisations around the world to measure and improve the way people move. If you're not across what they're doing in the clinical space, it's worth a look.
To every clinic owner and amongst those that attended Paul Coburn Lisa Tran Primal Physiotherapy Barry T. Nguyen Stephan LEE Ian McFarland Jane Higgs @mitchellwalkershannassywho were in that room that night: thank you for showing up and sharing openly. That's what moves the profession forward.
Thanks to Randall Cooper and team from Learn.Physio
