"I am glad that I trusted my instincts and contacted David after reading his article in the LMT. I initially wanted to understand our financials better and to learn how to increase profitably. In addition, David has set up a bonus plan for our lab. This is something that we wanted to do for several years but were just not able to come up with a formula we felt would work for our lab. The formula David proposed has been a game changer in our lab. Each part of the plan is completely in the employees control. They now have a sense of ownership and are working together as a team to increase workflow, keep the quality, and control costs. We instantly saw the many benefits to this plan."
- Client, Confidential
"After 18 months of amazing, highly profitable, growth, I literally told David he may have to slow down growing our dental lab."
- Client, Confidential
"As a dental lab owner, I have very little time to handle important tasks by myself. David at 8&9 Consulting has made choosing and migrating to our new lab management software easy and seamless. I don’t know what I would have done with David’s help!"
- Client, Confidential
"David Lesh has been an absolute game-changer for our dental lab. From helping us analyze the acquisition, providing invaluable insights and providing the deep strategic thinking that gave us a clear path forward. Once the acquisition was complete, David continued to guide us through selecting and implementing a new lab management system and establishing meaningful KPIs that gave us clear metrics to drive continuous improvement.
David took the lead in managing our labs budget and finances, ensuring our lab remained financially sound during the transition, and he created a selling system configuring a CRM for our needs and hiring and training our first-ever outside sales representative.
David Lesh is an expert with a great combination of working on big picture strategy and assisting with hands-on execution. I highly recommend 8&9 Consulting to anyone looking to elevate their business to the next level."
- Client, Confidential
"Wisdom and pure dental lab knowledge seeps from Dave. From our first 30 minute conversation, I trusted him. His no-nonsense approach and passion for helping others not only succeed, but learn how to continually succeed is inspiring and invaluable. I appreciate the conversations, and look forward to future growth."
- Client, Confidential
"I met David when he started his first company over 20 years ago. His experience and understanding of the dental lab industry have made him a great thought leader, and I am glad to see he’s sharing that through consulting and speaking. His insights on the dental lab industry are always worth knowing and he has an energy that’s fun to be around."
- Jim Glidewell, Founder, Glidewell Dental Lab
"In less than two months, David Lesh significantly increased the profits at my dental lab, far beyond what I paid him. He improved our sales process and more - all without ever stepping foot in my lab. I would highly recommend learning more and using David for your lab.”
- Client, Confidential
"David Lesh has done an outstanding job building a structured sales department for our company and coaching our sales team. He has created a simplified system for us to manage and has given our sales reps the confidence to succeed! Thank you, David!”
- Client, Confidential
"Our lab got cases from 5 new dentists, from the first 25 cold calls we did in the first few days after training on David Lesh’s Complete Selling System for Dental Labs. We have never experienced results even remotely close to that before. David's system included his CRM and routing setups, extensive sales and follow up training, and role-playing. It is a complete selling system that has completely changed how we go about winning new clients, and it was all done by Zoom, 15 time zones away. David jumps on calls with us just about every day to help us though creating the best follow ups and designing the most efficient sales routing that lets us get more done in less time. Just amazing."
- Client, Confidential
"We initially hired David to provide much needed outside sales training for our organization with the expectation of some brief
one-on-ones and a couple days of outside sales tactics like any other canned sales training. What we got far exceeded our expectations. David spent time with me as the manager understanding my day to day and pain points with the team, and then getting to know each rep and their processes. This time spent made David extremely effective during the training, giving us all real life sales examples and how to overcome challenges as it pertains to our specific industry. He also worked with us to restructure how we utilize our CRM, making the reps much more effective in the field with how they approach their day to day sales calls and has given me additional reporting to assist me in managing the team to the numbers. David's post-training follow up has been the most impressive, as he always finds time to make himself available for myself and the team, providing additional support and sales and management advice. I saw an immediate increase in sales successes following the training, and those successes have continued in the months following David's guidance."
- Client, Confidential
"I literally closed my first sale, for a $6,000 case, 27 minutes after my very first sales training with Dave. I 100% would not have landed that case without his training. Thank you David!"
- Client, Confidential
“David has always been ahead of the curve in his ability to predict the needs and trends of a rapidly transforming dental lab industry. This foresight has served him well throughout his career as he continues to apply his experience advising others on how to best prepare their business for future success.”
- Client, Confidential
"David’s diverse experience in the laboratory community coupled with his quick mind and business acumen make him a powerfully valuable, results-oriented asset to any dental laboratory.”
- Judy Fishman, CEO, LMT Communications
"I brought David on to be our interim VP of Dental Lab Operations where he oversaw all aspects of our 23 dental labs, their performance, HR and manufacturing of our all-on-four implant prosthetics. David's knowledge of dental lab operations, leadership and management style allowed our team to focus on growing our dental practices. I would highly recommend David for any strategic or management considerations any dental organization may have."
- Dr. Don Miloni Founder ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers
"David is a consummate visionary entrepreneur who has demonstrated a knack for uncovering the right innovation at the right time. His expertise in identifying operational pain points and restructuring labs for scalable, profitable growth is one that I myself and harvest continue to frequently draw upon."
- Sasha Der Avanessian, CEO, Harvest Dental
“David has always been ahead of the curve in his ability to predict the needs and trends of a rapidly transforming dental lab industry. This foresight has served him well throughout his career as he continues to apply his experience advising others on how to best prepare their business for future success.”
- Pam Johnson, Founding EditorInside Dental Technology
"I have known David for over 10 years and interacted with him numerous times as participants in dental and dental laboratory meetings together. We’ve shared views on many areas of dentistry and participated together on several programs. David is a very innovative and creative person and a stimulating leader who knows the dental and dental lab industries very well. If you have any needs that could benefit from his expertise, you will not find a better candidate."
- Dr. Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, Ph.D., CEO, Clinicians Report Foundation & Practical Clinical Courses
"Dave is a sales master ‘mechanic’. He will fine tune your skills and create a unique road map to win.​ His ability to provide highly influential real world experience, coupled with calculated strategies, will have you lapping the competition in no time."
- Client, Confidential
“I grew my lab from 1 to nearly 75 employees, at its peak, over the past 8 years. It has never been easy, but with the constant year over year growth and successes we were experiencing, I thought I always knew the winning formula.​ Entering into 2019, we were starting to face harder challenges that were more difficult for me to navigate through. Being the lone decision maker on many of these challenges, I started to question myself more. Being a bigger lab, with multiple locations in different states, there was more at risk than ever before to keep the ship moving in the right direction.
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At one of our peaks of chaos, I saw small writeup in LMT about a new consulting firm led by Dave Lesh. I knew the name well as I started my lab as a CAD/CAM lab in 2011 and Dale Dental was king. I blindly sent him a message to see if I could find any value in talking to someone about some of the things I was instinctively making decisions on. That ended up being one of the best decisions I could make at that time.
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Where do I begin with on working with Dave? He has lived, breathed, and experienced everything dental lab related. We have touched on every aspect of owning and growing a lab and has provided advice that has challenged the way I have typically looked at and faced challenges.​ Our lab as a whole - financial, administrative, sales, human resources, and CEO level decision making and negotiating - have all improved drastically in a positive light and direction. Dave has always said that he is there to see us win - and that’s exactly what we are doing together.”
- Client, Confidential
"Hi David, Your consulting program was beneficial to us in many ways. Your experience and sales expertise truly changed how we approach offices. In addition to introducing us to a new method of communicating with the dental offices, the software you integrated into our system was a real game changer. Admittedly, I was very skeptical about the program when we first spoke, but I can confidently say that you delivered all you promised and more. Even your cancellation policy, which I feared was too good to be true, was exactly how you described it. I never imagined that you could help so much and that there was no catch, but time and time again you proved yourself and your program. I recommend your program to anyone interested in taking their lab to the next level."
- Client, Confidential