Dr. Nikki Ravari built and operated 16 dental practices from the ground up. Today, she helps dental owners understand their business, improve profitability, and make growth decisions that support the life they want.
Through speaking, executive coaching, and fractional leadership, Nikki brings an owner's perspective to the decisions behind a successful practice: people, operations, money, marketing, and growth.
Lectures, breakouts, workshops, and open Q&A for dental conferences, study clubs, practice leadership teams, and industry partners.
Nikki (Nasim) Ravari, DDS, is a dentist and entrepreneur who founded, built, and operated 16 de novo dental practices across Southern California and West Texas. Her practices included general dentistry, endodontics, periodontics and implants, a mobile pediatric clinic, and an oral medicine and pathology center.
She has worked through the decisions owners face at every stage: choosing a location, managing construction, hiring doctors, developing teams, growing revenue, protecting margins, and preparing for a sale. She has since sold most of her practices.
Today, Nikki is an Executive Dental Coach with DEO, the Dentist Entrepreneur Organization. Through DEO, she coaches practice owners and provides fractional COO and Chief Dental Officer support. Her work connects financial performance, operational discipline, leadership, and clinical care.
Whether she is on stage or working with an owner, her approach is direct: understand the business, identify what matters most, and build a team that can move it forward.
People ask me why I didn't just retire after selling most of my practices. Why take on coaching and fractional leadership? Why keep working so hard?
The honest answer is that I love working. Building practices, figuring out what needs to change, and helping a business grow is what I've spent eighteen years learning to do. I have a skill set that can help other dentists, and I want to share it.
I built ten practices before having my twin boys and another six after they were born. I built my daily life intentionally, organizing my practices with the teams, systems, and leadership that allowed me to keep growing while being present for my kids.
Today, I work with dentists at very different stages. Some are struggling with profitability, their teams, or finding time for themselves and their families. Others own multiple practices and need a partner to think through growth strategy, develop their leadership team, improve performance across locations, and decide when and how to expand.
I know how much goes into building a practice and how personal it feels when things aren't working. I also understand the challenges that come with growth: more locations, more people, and more decisions that can't all depend on you.
I love helping owners work through those decisions. Whether we're turning around an underperforming practice or preparing a dental group for its next stage of growth, I get to share what eighteen years of ownership taught me and help someone else move forward.
Watching another owner build a stronger business and create more room for the life they want is work I still want to wake up and do.
Dental owners don't need another list of things they should be doing. They need to understand what is happening in their business, why it matters, and which decisions deserve their attention.
Nikki connects the numbers, people, and operations behind practice performance. Her sessions give audiences a clearer way to evaluate challenges, ask better questions, and recognize opportunities in their own practices.
Each talk is tailored to the audience's experience, goals, and stage of ownership. Lectures run 20 to 60 minutes, topics can be combined into one session, and Nikki welcomes open question-and-answer time: some of her favorite moments on stage are when owners bring the issues their practices are facing right now. Full abstracts are available in the speaker kit.
A clear look at how a dental practice works as a business, and why a full schedule doesn't always translate into a healthy bottom line. Nikki connects revenue, overhead, team performance, and owner decisions so audiences can better understand their results and priorities.
More patients, services, or locations can create opportunity, and complexity. This session explores how owners evaluate growth through the lens of demand, team capacity, profitability, and their own goals. Topics include insurance participation, marketing, service expansion, and the connection between production and collections.
What has to change when the owner can no longer be the answer to every question? Nikki explores the roles, leadership, culture, and accountability that help a practice become less dependent on one person, and better prepared for growth or a future transition.
A practice's numbers tell a story. Understanding it means looking beyond any single department or metric.
Nikki looks at how financial performance, clinical care, team structure, and the patient experience affect one another. The goal is to understand what is driving the results, where the real constraints are, and what deserves attention first.
Before making a major decision, understand what the information includes, what it leaves out, and whether it reflects how the practice actually operates.
Through DEO coaching and fractional engagements, that understanding becomes a plan tailored to the practice, with clear responsibilities and ongoing follow-through.
Sometimes a practice owner needs more than advice. They need an experienced leader working alongside the team to help move the business forward.
Through DEO, Nikki provides fractional COO and Chief Dental Officer support for dental organizations that need added operational or clinical leadership. She works with owners and their teams to strengthen systems, develop leaders, and improve accountability across the business.
The scope and cadence depend on the organization's priorities, existing leadership, and stage of growth.
Nikki's executive coaching and fractional COO and Chief Dental Officer engagements are delivered through DEO, the Dentist Entrepreneur Organization.
Her work with owners focuses on understanding practice performance, developing leadership, and turning business priorities into consistent action. Fractional engagements provide more direct involvement with the organization and its team.
Interested in working with Nikki? Reach out to discuss your goals and explore the right fit through DEO.
Share your audience, event date, and the business questions you want to explore. Nikki will follow up about availability, fit, and a session tailored to your goals.
For coaching or fractional leadership, switch the form to Coaching & fractional.