01 / CRAFT
Master the work.
Define your signature.
Clinical craft is the foundation. Build the judgment, repetition, and distinct identity that make your work your own.
The Aligned Surgeon™
Build beyond
your hands.
Private mentorship. A more intentional practice. A more aligned life.
Your next chapter
There is no residency
for private practice.
You spent more than a decade learning how to become a surgeon. Almost nobody taught you how to build the practice, culture, team, brand, business, and life around it.
Surgical excellence is only the beginning.
You mastered the craft. Now build the practice. And the life around it.
Six months. Private mentorship. Built around you.
Inside the work
Built in the operating room. Proven in the practice.
The Aligned Surgeon connects clinical craft with the systems, people, culture and environment required to build an exceptional practice.
Master the work.
02 / PEOPLE
Build a team.
Protect a culture.
Exceptional practices depend on people. Align leadership, accountability, and the environment your team creates every day.
03 / ENTERPRISE
Create something
beyond your hands.
Connect your systems, brand, and business to a deliberate vision for your practice—and the life around it.
The problem
The technical training ends. The real building begins.
Residency prepares you to operate. Private practice asks you to become a leader, entrepreneur, recruiter, marketer, financial operator, culture builder, and eventually an institution builder.
Build a culture people want to protect.
Understand your P&L and pricing.
Develop a signature clinical identity.
Build a personal brand with credibility.
Recruit and lead high-performing people.
Scale without becoming the bottleneck.
Create enterprise value beyond your hands.
Build success that gives you more life.
Why this exists
From surgeon to builder.
The Aligned Surgeon™ is a six-month private mentorship and strategic advisory experience for plastic surgeons who want to intentionally build an exceptional practice, brand, team, career, and life.
“Success without alignment can simply create a bigger version of a life you never intended to build.”
This is not about copying someone else’s practice. It is about becoming the surgeon and leader capable of intentionally building your own.
The framework
Align the surgeon before you scale the enterprise.
Every major decision is viewed through five connected domains, with alignment surrounding all five.
01
Self
Who are you becoming?
02
Craft
What are you becoming exceptional at?
03
People
Who are you building with?
04
Brand
What do people believe about you?
05
Enterprise
What are you ultimately building?
The curriculum
10 private working sessions. One integrated operating system.
Each 75–90 minute session combines teaching, diagnosis, strategic application, decisions, and specific commitments. The sequence moves from alignment through craft, people, brand, business, enterprise, and legacy.
01
Alignment
Who are you actually trying to become?
Define the future before building toward it: career, family, time, wealth, clinical goals, ideal week, and what success means on your terms.
Outcome · Personal Alignment Statement + three-year vision
02
Mindset
Think bigger before you build bigger.
Identify the beliefs, fears, narratives, and decision patterns that limit growth. Translate vision into identity, action, and repetition.
Outcome · Mindset Reset + Courage Action
03
Craft
Become known for something.
Develop a recognizable clinical identity through mastery, differentiation, outcome measurement, innovation, and teaching.
Outcome · Signature Clinical Strategy
04
Culture
Build the team you want to scale with.
Translate values into behaviors. Build hiring, onboarding, accountability, recognition, and leadership systems that protect culture as you grow.
Outcome · Cultural Foundations v1.0
05
Experience
Design how the patient feels at every step.
Engineer the patient journey from first awareness through long-term follow-up, with intentional emotional and operational touchpoints.
Outcome · Patient Experience Map
06
Brand
Build trust before the patient ever meets you.
Clarify positioning, story, content, authority, social media, speaking, education, PR, and the difference between attention and trust.
Outcome · Brand Positioning + 90-Day Content Plan
07
Business
Know the numbers that actually drive the practice.
Understand pricing, conversion, case mix, utilization, overhead, labor, marketing, margin, cash flow, and profit.
Outcome · The Surgeon Scorecard
08
Leadership
Stop being the bottleneck.
Move from doer to leader to visionary through delegation, accountability, organizational design, decision rights, and executive development.
Outcome · Future Organizational Chart + Delegation Plan
09
Enterprise
Build beyond your own hands — intentionally.
Evaluate associates, partnerships, equity, ASC, med spa, real estate, education, media, additional locations, and strategic adjacencies.
Outcome · Three-Year Enterprise Map
10
Legacy
Build a life worth scaling.
Bring the entire program back to life design: family, health, wealth, freedom, teaching, succession, impact, and what “enough” means.
Outcome · The Aligned Surgeon Blueprint
10Private working sessions
6Months of mentorship
2Days inside TPC Draper
1Aligned Surgeon Blueprint
TPC Draper Immersion · Included
Come inside what we built.
The two-day in-person TPC Immersion in Draper, Utah is included in the program investment. The first participating surgeon may bring one key team member—typically a practice administrator or operator—and airfare and hotel for those two attendees are included.
Day one · See the system
Culture, leadership, patient journey, clinic flow, PCC process, OR/ASC systems, scheduling, safety, accountability, and team structure.
Day two · Build your version
Brand, content, financials, KPIs, leadership, scale, and private strategic planning around what to take home—and what not to copy.
Who this is for
For surgeons entering a chapter where intentional building matters.
This may fit if you are transitioning from academics or hospital employment, early in private practice, already successful but becoming the bottleneck, or preparing to build associates, an ASC, multiple locations, or a larger platform.
It is probably not for someone looking for shortcuts, unwilling to discuss numbers, unwilling to change, or primarily looking for social-media followers. The work requires transparency and execution.
All-in program investment
One practice. Up to five surgeons. Shared strategy with individual development.
The flagship six-month engagement is structured around one practice and includes the full advisory program plus the two-day TPC Draper Immersion.
1 surgeon$35,000
2 surgeons$50,000
3 surgeons$65,000
4 surgeons$80,000
5 surgeons$95,000
All-in pricing includes the TPC Draper Immersion. The first participating surgeon may bring one key practice leader; airfare and hotel for those two attendees are included. Additional surgeons attending the immersion are +$2,500 each.
Application only
Build something exceptional without losing the life it was meant to create.
Tell us about you, your practice, what you are building, and why this chapter matters now.
Start the application