CONFERENCE Speakers
GUEST SPEAKERS
We are delighted to announce our Guest Speakers for 2026.
The Independent Vet Conference prioritises depth over breadth. Rather than a high volume of brief presentations, we carefully curate our speaker faculty to deliver longer, theme-led sessions designed to encourage deeper thinking, discussion, and impact.
Dr Lynda Shaw is a highly practical applied neuroscientist. She holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in unconscious processing and behavioural change. She is also an experienced entrepreneur, having owned 3 businesses. She is an author of the business book ‘Your Brain is Boss’ and a children’s book ‘Beat the Bullies Use Your Brain’.
Lynda is a dynamic and experienced conference speaker across industries. She is also a mentor and works with senior leaders and their teams who want to tackle uncertainty, change and hidden potential.
She is Past President of the Professional Speaking Association UK&I and is the founder of Brain & Behaviour Ltd., the Leaders Learning Lab, and 901 Lunch and Learns. She is also an adventure traveler. In fact, one of her many passions is walking – whether at high altitudes or on the treadmill in her office – earning her the nickname “The Walking Neuroscientist.”
LYNDA SHAW
2026 Keynote Speaker
OPENING: Are We Solving the Right Problem? Thinking Clearly in a More Complex Veterinary World
Andy brings over 30 years’ experience as a small animal vet, award-winning business owner, and co-founder of the world’s largest veterinary Employee Ownership Trust. Today, he is an award-winning international and TEDx speaker, as well as a trainer, facilitator, mentor, and Neurostrategist.
Through Andy Green Consulting, he helps organisations strengthen leadership, team performance, strategic thinking, and culture. He is certified in NLP and Neurostrategies, and a certified consultant in Harrison Assessments and Contribution Compass behavioural profiling, applying these across individuals, teams, and leadership groups.
He also works with Vet Dynamics as a mentor and business development consultant and is a Director of Pennard Vets – an award-winning employee-owned practice, where he chairs the Employee Ownership Trust Board.
ANDY GREEN
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Reality of Doing It Differently
Rebecca Maher is a vet, marketer and consumer psychologist.
She’s the founder and Managing Director of InsideMinds, the marketing and communications consultancy that harnesses the power of behavioural science to help veterinary businesses turn more conversations into action, create engaged, loyal clients and make the lives of clinic teams easier.
Rebecca works with veterinary businesses to help them solve communication and behaviour change challenges, improve client experience, and create marketing content which really works.
REBECCA MAHER
SESSION: The Future Client: Trust, Truth and Tension
CONFERENCE FACULTY
Our Conference Faculty are experienced Vet Dynamics consultants, recognised globally for delivering practical
insight, strategic clarity, and lasting impact across the veterinary profession.
A qualified vet for 25+ years, Alan Robinson started and grew a successful mixed animal practice in rural Wiltshire for 15 years before diversifying into business management. His mission has always been re-igniting purpose, passion, people, and performance, helping independent Veterinary Practice owners and teams improve performance and achieve quality of life for themselves and the patients in their care.
His is now the proud owner and director of the UK based veterinary business consultancy and
education company, Vet Dynamics, trusted business advisors to more than 1200 practices worldwide.
Alan is also Director and Founder of Garden Vets, the first-opinion, primary care teaching hospital at
Harper Keele Veterinary School.
ALAN ROBINSON
SESSION: The Human Advantage: Value in a Tech-Enabled World
SESSION: The Choices You Can’t Avoid
Rebecca graduated from Cambridge in 1999 and began her career in mixed practice in the Peak District, later moving into small animal medicine and dentistry. After completing further study in practice management and leadership, she became Practice Director in 2016, driving improvements in
business efficiency and culture.
She co-founded the Vet Academy with Vet Dynamics where she is now a Business Consultant and, in 2023, joined the Board of Directors of the Veterinary Management Group (VMG), where she serves currently as President. She is passionate about supporting independent practice owners to build positive, sustainable workplaces and bringing the very best out of veterinary teams.
REBECCA ROBINSON
SESSION: The World Around Us – Are You Paying Attention?
Qualifying from the RVC in 2014, Gemma has undertaken many roles in the small animal veterinary world including clinical coach, new graduate mentor and clinical director.
In 2021 Gemma joined Vet Dynamics after realising her purpose was in developing teams and practices, encouraging and supporting them to thrive. With a wide variety of interests, she wants to instil the mindset that if you do right by your people, you will do right by your practice. And most importantly, do right by the patients.
Gemma is also a Director for the Veterinary Management Group (VMG).
GEMMA BARMBY
SESSION: Rethinking What We’re Actually Doing
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PREVIOUS GUEST SPEAKERS - AT A GLANCE
Over the years, we’ve been extremely proud to welcome a diverse range of influential speakers who are driving
meaningful change and shaping the future of the veterinary profession.
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