Nathan Bailey, OT Business Coach
The short answer
Nathan Bailey is an OT business coach with Simplify Business Coaching in Melbourne. He works with occupational therapy practice owners across Australia, and with allied health practices that have OTs on the team, on the business side of running a practice: money, systems, hiring, and getting out of being the person everything runs through.
What Nathan does
Nathan coaches OT practice owners through the move from operator to owner: from the practitioner every question routes through to the person who builds and leads the practice as a business. The work covers the practice numbers that owners were never trained to read, the systems that let a practice run without the owner in the room, hiring and keeping OTs in a tight market, and reducing a practice’s dependence on a single funding scheme.
He works one to one, in a small group for owners working through the same change, and through written guides, including AI for OTs, a guide to using AI in an Australian OT practice without putting client data or clinical responsibility at risk.
Who Nathan works with
Owners of occupational therapy practices in Australia, typically with five to twenty staff, and allied health practices with OTs on the team. The work assumes the reader is a competent clinician who did not set out to become a full-time manager and wants the practice to stop depending on them.
Where to find Nathan
Simplify Business Coaching, Melbourne. On LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/nateau. The Practice Health Check on this site is the way to start: it gives an owner a named, prioritised picture of where the practice stands.