Displaying 10 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "management".
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421: Katherine Steinbock-Dyke: From Girl Scout Cookies to CEO of Whip Mix
April 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
3d printing, analog dentistry, analog vs digital, articulators, asiga, australia, bench culture, bench work, business evolution, cad cam, career growth, ceo, collaboration, continuous improvement, corporate culture, customer relationships, dealer network, dental, dental community, dental education, dental equipment, dental industry, dental lab, dental labs, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental resins, dental schools, dental technician, dental technicians, dental technology, digital dentistry, employee benefits, entrepreneurship, europe, family business, furnaces, future of dentistry, global markets, gypsum, heritage, hr, human resources, hybrid workflow, ids, industry insights, industry trends, innovation, innovation strategy, international business, katherine steinbock-dyke, lab day, lab life, lab owners, lab workflow, laboratory, large labs, latin america, leadership, legacy, management, materials science, mentorship, mixers, model trimmers, networking, next generation, operations, partnerships, podcasts, polymers, product development, production, relevance, small business, storytelling, succession planning, team building, technician, technicians life, trade shows, voices from the bench, whip mix, win program, workflow efficiency
This week we chat with Katherine Steinbock-Dyke of Whip Mix about growing up in a family-run dental company and unexpectedly working her way to CEO. She shares her path from HR and corporate roles into operations, product development, and ultimately leadership—highlighting the balance between tradition and innovation in today’s evolving lab landscape. The episode mixes stories of continuous improvement, digital transitions, and industry travel, all wrapped in the perspective of someone focused on keeping a legacy company relevant for the future.
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418: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 4 with Josh Williams, Savannah Elkins, Darin McCue, Vicki Thomas, and Carrie Ling
March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printing, access, additive, burnout, business, buying group, cad, cam, chicago, collaboration, communication, community, competition, consulting, culture, dental, design, digital, durability, efficiency, evolution, flexibles, growth, hiring, industry, innovation, lab day, lab-to-lab, laboratory, leadership, management, materials, mentorship, outsourcing, ownership, partnerships, pricing, production, removable, rpd, sales, savvy, scalability, small labs, strategy, technician, technology, training, vendors, voices from the bench, workflows
Live from LMT Lab Day Chicago, Elvis and Barb capture three conversations that highlight the future of the lab industry. From Savannah and Josh’s fast-moving digital removable workflows at GPS Digital RPD, to Darin McCue’s blunt reminder that labs need strong leadership—not just great technicians and how Saleslift Consulting can help—and finally Vicki and Carrie’s push to empower smaller labs through smarter partnerships and buying power with Savvy Lab Solutions, every discussion points to the same truth: adapting isn’t optional.
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392: Jed Archibald is Impressed with Empress and So Much More
September 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
dental, design, die, digital, education, family, finish, ivoclar, laboratory, lavender, management, margins, mechanical tension, mill, outsource, press, printing, rockstar and skittles, technician, testing, utah, utah valley dental lab, voices from the bench, wax, workarounds
Back again is Jed Archibald talking about minimal prepped restorations using Empress from Ivoclar, ZirCAD Prime, better printer resins, and so much more!
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376: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 2 with Amy Tate, Dr. Rami Gamil, & Pam Rehm
June 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3d vision, argen, cad, cbct, certification, chicago, cone bean, dental, dentist, denturist, digital dentures, digital records, edentulous scans, education, exocad, fixed, high energy, hype, ids, imaging, implants, internship, ios, laboratory, lecturing, management, mentorship, models, nate, outsource, removable, revolutionary, scan every denture, scanning, speaking, study clubs, teaching, technician, technology, theory, training, university, voices from the bench, world cup
Back at it from the exocad booth at IDS 2025! First up is new"ish" to the dental lab industry, Amy Tate from the UK. Then we chat with Dr. Rami Gamil, a dentist from Egypt that brought technology to the masses, and we wrap up with Canadian Pam Rehm who is out to make sure every denturist has the proper opportunity to go digital.
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336: A FREE Jamie Stover with Every Carbon Printer
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
3d printing, bates technical college, bench work, carbon, cdt, communication, delivery driver, dental, digital dentures, digital workflow, education, fixed, get involved, gps, handwritten, helping, knowledge, laboratory, management, nadl university, nbc, podcast, removable, sharing, technician, technology, voices from the bench, washington state
This week we talk to ex-delivery driver, ex-bench tech, ex-lab manager, ex-operations manager, to current Senior Manager of Application Strategy and Integration with Carbon Printer and current Chair of the National Board of Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology.
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333: Success in Florida with Dany Sakr, Nick Azzara, Ifet Ahmeti, & Whitney Courtney
August 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
3shape, adite, ah ha moments, analog to digital, attachments, cdt, dental, digital, education, email, employees, exocad, framework, generous, high end, imetric, implant, in-office, jensen dental, laboratory, lou, management, millbox, miyo, on-site, partials, podcast, prince, removables, sales person, simulate situations, size matters, solution, teaching, technician, trade shows, voices from the bench, wife
We wrap up our trip to the FDLA 2024 Symposium thanks to the WONDERFUL people at Jensen Dental with conversations with Dany Sakr, Nick Azzara, Ifet Ahmeti, and Whitney Courtney
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322: The Full "Arch-Bishop" of 3shape Design with Cole Bishop
May 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
1600, 3shape, ai, all-on-x, arrowhead, artificial intelligence, asia, cnc, cosmetic, costa rica, dental, full contour, laboratory, lmt, lucid, management, menu, model, phoenix, podcast, post and core, preferences, profiles, public speaking, quality, redesign, technician, treasure dental studio, voices from the bench, waxing
This week we chat to the Global Head of Design Quality with 3Shape Design Services, Cole Bishop. Cole talks about his journey into digital design, his time at Full Contour, the transition to 3shape, and being a part of the team that developed their AI services called Automate.
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178: LIVE at LOTM Part 2: Mary Valentine, Emily Valentine, Sherri Weatherby, Cassandra Dombrowski, Mary Nosal
August 23rd, 2021 | 53 mins 4 secs
asiga, barn, dental, hand wax, kids, laboratory, louisville, management, michigan, nobel biocare, podcast, porcelain, procera, roland mill, technician, voices from the bench, whip mix
We are back at the Ladies of the Mill Summit. This week we talk to mother/daughter team Mary and Emily Valentine, then from Whip Mix we chat with Sherri Weatherby and Cassandra Dombrowski, and then we wrap up the episode with Mary Nosal.
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166: Two Under Forty =Amazing Technicians: Julia Izumi & Chris Love
May 31st, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
carbon, cdt, dental, donald park, keystone night guard, lab day, lab management today, laboratory, lucitone, management, nadl university, podcast, printer, technician, voices from the bench
LMT Magazine did a feature called "40 Under 40" about amazing technicians making a difference in our industry. We talk to Julia Izumi from Shanto Dental Ceramics and Chris Love from Absolute Dental Services and find out more about their story of success.
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115: Pure Gold From LMT Lab Day Chicago 2020 Part 6: Michael Thomas, Shannon Foscue, Judy Fishman, Jenny Abbott-Cole
June 8th, 2020 | 59 mins 27 secs
affordable dentures, dental, digital design, lab day, laboratory, management, podcast, technician, voices from the bench
We are sad to say the conversations from LMT Lab Day Chicago 2020 are coming to a end. But we end it with a BANG! First up we chat with Michael Thomas and Shannon Foscue from Edge Dental Solutions. Then we chat with Judy Fishman and Jenny Abbott-Cole from LMT Communications.