About Me - Motivatum Veterinary Consulting - Senani Ratnayake

Senani Ratnayake BSc RVT
Owner/Founder

Senani attended Queen’s University and the University of Guelph where she completed a Bachelor of Science before pursuing Veterinary Technology at Ridgetown College, graduating in 2002.

She has been educating veterinary professionals for over 17 years and has received multiple awards for her contributions to veterinary medicine, including most recently the Founders Award from Dr. Andy Roark’s Uncharted Veterinary Community. She is a sought-after and well-respected veterinary consultant and speaker.

From small animal general practice and emergency/ICU, to running a dermatology referral service, managing a practice and then working with Hill’s Pet Nutrition as both a Prescription Diet representative and the Science Diet media spokesperson, she kept coming back to her strength in communication. She used her experiences and knowledge, combined with her natural way with words, to become a catalyst for change within the industry.

In early 2011 Senani officially launched Motivatum Consulting, an umbrella to house the veterinary communications and leadership work she had been doing for the previous eight years.

Senani spent 6 years working as a consultant for the Shareholders of Veterinary Purchasing – coaching owners, managers and associate veterinarians, training team members, and supporting the individual business needs of the hospitals with customized operations, marketing and team strategies. She then spent three years working as the Director of Learning and Engagement for a Canadian corporate group of veterinary hospitals. Outside of veterinary medicine, Senani works as a facilitator for Learn2 Solutions from time-to-time, delivering innovative programs that empower organizations to achieve business results.

Working in practice, industry and with a corporate group, she has gained a unique perspective and utilizes these insights to relate to, and engage with veterinary medicine professionals. She is currently the Director of Learning and Engagement at Vet Alliance where she is focused on building a best-in-class platform of support for independently owned Canadian hospitals and their teams. She encompasses her desire to build momentum through motivation by creating interactive workshops and thought-provoking seminars through the lens of communication. Senani is best known for her sessions on management, leadership, communication, team building, customer service and compliance. She is also a popular coach and mentor for DVMs and RVTs who appreciate her authentic and honest approach to their personal success.

Senani is a Past President of the Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians and is also a facilitator for the OAVT Professionalism and Ethics course. She participates on a variety of veterinary related committees and is a Past President of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine where she was also a contributor to their quarterly publication, The Scalpel. She received the OAVT Honorary One Year Membership Award in 2010, was honoured with the OAVT award for Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the Profession in 2015, awarded 'Best Woman in Human Resource Management' by Women in Management - Canada Chapter in 2019 and felt especially priviliged to be voted by her peers to receive the Founders Award from the Uncharted Veterinary Community in 2020. Most recently, she was humbled to be awarded the 2021 RVT of the Year by the Registered Veterinary Technologists and Technicians of Canada.

Her speaking engagements include:

2022 guidED Vet Alliance Conference (June)
2022 London and Surrounding Area Veterinary Association Webinar (Mar)
2022 House Call and Mobile Vet Virtual Conference (Feb)
2021 Veterinary Education Today Virtual Conference (Nov)
2021 VetStrategy Annual Manager Retreat (Nov)
2021 CanWest Veterinary Virtual Conference (Oct)
2021 Learning by Gateway Platform Asynchronous Webinar (launch in Oct)
2021 Iowa State University College of Vet Med VOICE Chapter Webinar (Sept)
2021 AVMA Virtual Conference (Aug)
2021 Uncharted Veterinary Community Featured Virtual Workshop (Aug)
2021 Canadian Animal Health Institute Virtual Convention webinar and panel (June)
2021 British Colombia Veterinary Technologists Association Virtual Conference (Apr)
2021 OAVT Virtual Conference (March)
2021 Hill's Pet Nutrition Mini-Symposiums (Feb x 2)
2021 OAVT panel discussion (January)
2020 guidED Vet Alliance Conference Keynote (Nov)
2020 Registered Veterinary Technologists and Technicians of Canada Board Meeting Keynote (Sept)
2020 American Veterinary Medical Association Convention (Aug)
2020 Hill's Pet Nutrition Webinar (July)
2020 Hill's Pet Nutrition OVC Nutrition Symposium (June)
2020 Uncharted Virtual Veterinary Conference Keynote (June)
2020 Dr. Andy Roark Virtual Veterinary Technician Graduation (May)
2019 Women in Leadership and Business Conference; Born to Lead (Oct)
2019 Uncharted Veterinary Conference: Staff Drama - speaker and micdrop presenter (Aug)
2019 World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress
2019 Uncharted Veterinary Conference (Apr)
2018 Uncharted Veterinary Conference: "GSD" (Oct)
2018 Micdrop at the Uncharted Veterinary Conference (Apr)
2018 Women in Leadership and Business Conference; Born to Lead
2017 CommuniVet and Purina Veterinary Diets - Golden Ticket event
2017 Canadian Animal Health Institute Conference
2017 Women in Leadership and Business; Born to Lead Youth Conference
2016 Women in Leadership and Business Sponsor Luncheon Keynote
2016 Hamilton Academy of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Series
2016 Central Canada Veterinary Association Fall Conference
2015 Kawartha Veterinary Association Lecture Series
2015 Golden Triangle Veterinary Academy Lecture Series
2015 Ontario Veterinary Medical Association Conference
2014 Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine (Hospital Personnel Lecture Series)
2014 Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine (Veterinary Lecture Series)
2014 Ontario Veterinary Technician Educators Conference
2013 Ontario Veterinary Technician Educators Conference
2012 IVCI Bootcamp International Conference on Communication in Veterinary Medicine
2012 Ontario Veterinary Medical Assocation Conference
2011 International Conference on Communication in Veterinary Medicine
2011 Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine (Hospital Personnel Lecture Series)

In her spare time, Senani likes to dote over Elizabeth (a NZ rabbit originally destined for a meat facility), Benjamin (a cheeky rescue kitten), Elsa (a rescue Terrier from Texas) and the newest in the group, Eleanor (a senior island potcake rescue). Please do not ask her to "foster" any more animals, she knows her weakness!