FOUNDER BIO
Flourishing Phoenix was founded by Dr. Phil Richmond to help veterinary teams craft positive workplace culture and individual wellbeing with two underlying themes:
Other people matter.
What do we do well and how do we do more of it?
We believe that the veterinary workplace should be an environment where we leave at the end of the day in a better psychological state than how we arrived. We also believe to bring these into being, relationships should be valued as much as business outcomes and that workplace wellbeing is no longer a nicety–it is a necessity.
EXPERIENCE & AWARDS
- Founder | CEO, Flourishing Phoenix Veterinary Consultants
- Medical Director, Country Oaks Animal Hospital
- Chair, FVMA Professional Wellness & Wellbeing Committee
- Chair, FVMA Outreach Committee
- FVMA Veterinarian of the Year
- FVMA Gold Star Award
- Executive Board-Florida Medical Professionals Group (2016-17)
- Wellbeing Curriculum Committee, UFCVM
- Wellbeing Committee, Veterinary Medical Association Executives
- Advisory Board, MentorVet
- Florida Suicide Prevention Coordination Council-Special Populations Committee
- Workplace Suicide Prevention & Postvention Committee (sponsored by AAS & AFSP)
- Wellbeing Lecturer, UFCVM
- Key External Expert-Veterinary Wellbeing, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health
- Guest Speaker, UTCVM, UWSVM & VMRCVM
- Keynote Speaker, Uncharted Veterinary Conference Practice Owner Summit
- Speaker: VMX, WVC, CommuniVet, PetDesk, dvm360, VIN, FVMA Annual & Gulf-Atlantic Veterinary Conferences
EDUCATION
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida
- BS, Biology—University of South Florida
- Certified in Applied Positive Psychology
- Certified Positive Psychology Consultant
- Certified Resilience Trainer
- Certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor
- Certified Health Coach—Behavior Change Specialist
- Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional
- Certified QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Instructor
- Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner
- Certified in PERMAH Organizational Wellbeing Survey Debriefing
- Certificate—AVMA Workplace Wellness Program
- Psychological First Aid Certification (Johns Hopkins)
- Professional Certificate—Science of Happiness at Work (BerkeleyX)
- Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate (ESSEC Business School)
- Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization (University of Pennsylvania/Coursera)
- Culture-Driven Team Building Specialization (Wharton/Coursera)
- Inspired Leadership Specialization (Case Western/Coursera)
- Krav Maga Practitioner
