About Us
Network in a safe, kind community whilst having more time, greater confidence and fun in your pet business.
Running your business can be a lonely and often thankless task. “Am I doing it right? Do I have enough knowledge? Enough experience? Enough income?” PPN offers something very unique; a safe and confidential platform to join your ‘cheerleaders’ without feeling you are being judged or belittled.
Hi I’m Helen and I help ambitious, hardworking pet professionals get more profit and prestige in their business.
With a background in counselling, animal behaviour, mentoring and business coaching – I combined my skills and my love of working with people and animals and created a very special community.
In 2017, I was bullied and at the point of burnout. I was targeted by a local dog trainer, who started sharing negative posts to discredit my business. Fortunately I sought legal advice and support from my peers and the posts stopped. However I was left feeling singled out and felt I needed a safe community I could turn to. Then my life changed for the better, finally giving me hope to move forward when I started my own Facebook group. This helped me to seek refuge from my life as a pet care entrepreneur giving me the potential to help thousands of other professionals, like myself, who had been bullied or had experienced issues in their business.
This refuge, turned into something incredibly powerful and I craved the opportunity to help other pet entrepreneurs find the same joy in their careers. Where I was once lonely and isolated I now was receiving dozens of messages filling my inbox. I was surprised by how suddenly a community of pet care entrepreneurs came together to share their experience, strength, and hope. I now have a new found confidence and a real purpose to help others on their journey.
As the community expanded, I was fuelled with this new found passion and wanted much more than just a Facebook Group and launched an official organisation, one which would not only improve standards in the industry as a whole, but a place you could receive additional accountability.
The Pet Professional Network was born!
PPN is the first business support organisation and membership for pet professionals who do not use any form of aversive methodology (pain or intimidation) to train, walk or care for any pet.
From my own personal results working with thousands of pets and rescue dogs, I’ve seen first hand how training without fear or force has given long term results – confident dogs and happy owners. We apply this philosophy to people, too; employing a strict anti-bullying policy to protect our members, which fosters a true sense of belonging in a safe and confidential environment.
Membership Benefits
There's more reasons than ever to join our growing community of pet professionals.
Facebook Support Group
Access to weekly topics; with advice from experts in marketing, mindset and animal behaviour. A safe, confidential place to ask advice and gain support from the PPN team and accountability in a group coaching environment.
Webinars & Facebook Live Speakers
Access to webinars and regular 'Facebook Lives' to help improve your knowledge on all aspects of business development and marketing skills.
Members Only
Resources & Assets
A private vault with access to assets such as training templates, terms and conditions and resources on topics such as health, wealth and well-being. Your business in a box/
Raising the standards to help support more pet owners.
Being part of our community means you give the confidence that you are providing your clients ethical, kind and effective services to help move them forward with a strong emphasis on the importance of long term support.
Ongoing CPD
We encourage ongoing learning which includes personal and business development. Members are asked to complete a minimum of 25 hours CPD each year. This is from a range of online courses/academic courses or study and offline practical courses (homework/workbooks with additional research/study is included in the total). We also run our own dog training course as part of our sister association ‘The Distinctive Dog Trainer Academy’ a mix of geek out sessions and business modules to develop your niche and offering.
We recommend CPD including business development, marketing, personal development and anything that develops your skills and knowledge in your area of work.
Our learning hub records points but for other service providers please keep a record manually.
“Our motto is ‘together we are stronger’ and we are a people focused organisation.”
– Helen Motteram (BSc Hons, Animal Welfare and behaviour)
Meet our team
With the help of our dedicated Team, Affiliate Members and their supporting organisations we are on hand to give you full support. We also are proud to collaborate with other mentors, organisations and professionals who offer support to our members.
Helen Motteram
Founder & Manager
Social Paws
Bethany Grace
PPN Founding Ambassador
Bonny Dog Behaviour
Robin Waite
Fearless Business
Nathan Leighton
Nathan The Dog Trainer
Samantha Parker
Admin Support
Parker’s Barkers
Dale Foley
Admin Support
VIP Dog Taining Services
Charly Kay
Dog Training With Charly
Nikki Birkett
Gill Gallagher
Allsorts Dog Training
Rachel Spencer
Media, PR and Pet Business Coach
Rachel Spencer
Nikki Clark
Pooches & Paws
Carrie-Anne Selwyn
Adam Denderfield
Delder’s Dogs
Nathan Dunleavy
Admin support and Dog walking Mentor
The Dog Walking Business Mentor Ltd
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