BUILD YOUR OWN DOG BUSINESS IN 12 WEEKS, ALONGSIDE YOUR JOB.
For serving
(e.g Police, Military, Border Force & Prison Service) handlers and instructors who've thought about starting a business, but have no idea how to get started.
Watch this short clip first, then add your details below.
I'll reply with two questions that'll tell you whether "Handler to Owner" is the right next step or whether you're better waiting.
IMPACT Working Dog Conference 2026
2nd & 3rd October 2026 · Niagara Conference Centre, Sheffield
Includes lunch and refreshments · 12 CPD hours · ~150 delegates
BUILD YOUR OWN DOG BUSINESS IN 12 WEEKS, ALONGSIDE YOUR JOB.
For serving
(e.g Police, Military, Border Force & Prison Service) handlers and instructors who've thought about starting a business, but have no idea how to get started.
Watch this short clip first, then add your details below.
I'll reply with two questions that'll tell you whether "Handler to Owner" is the right next step or whether you're better waiting.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF…
You’ve got years of operational dog experience, but have no idea how to package it into a business.
You want to build something alongside your job, not hand your notice in and just hope it works out.
You’re tired of watching people with a fraction of your experience call themselves experts and earning money.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF…
You’ve got years of operational dog experience, but have no idea how to package it into a business.
You want to build something alongside your job, not hand your notice in and just hope it works out.
You’re tired of watching people with a fraction of your experience call themselves experts and earning money.
The situation
YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO THE HARD PART.
You have trained and worked a dog to a standard most civilian trainers will never reach. That's not the problem.
The problem is, that your years of operational expertise has no commercial language attached to it yet. Nobody’s shown you how to turn what you know, into something someone will pay for.
So you watch the chancers, with six months’ experience, charge premium rates, whilst you stay where you are. Your pension is keeping you in a job that’s worn thin, the rest days you should spend with your family are spent doing overtime or thinking about the business you’ve never started.
The gap between your experience and what you can charge for it is a skill, but it’s learnable. And I can teach you.
The situation
YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO THE HARD PART.
You have trained and worked a dog to a standard most civilian trainers will never reach. That's not the problem.
The problem is, that your years of operational expertise has no commercial language attached to it yet. Nobody’s shown you how to turn what you know, into something someone will pay for.
So you watch the chancers, with six months’ experience, charge premium rates, whilst you stay where you are. Your pension is keeping you in a job that’s worn thin, the rest days you should spend with your family are spent doing overtime or thinking about the business you’ve never started.
The gap between your experience and what you can charge for it is a skill, but it’s learnable. And I can teach you.
WHAT "HANDLER TO OWNER" IS
Let’s be clear up front, because people ask: I’m not recruiting handlers into anything. This is YOUR business. YOUR name. YOUR clients. I’m the one who helps you get there.
"Handler to Owner" is a 12-week programme (just like an initial course) that turns your operational dog expertise into a profitable dog business.
We build it whilst you’re still in your job, alongside your shifts.
No handing your warrant card in. No cliff edge. We build the bridge before you decide to fully cross it.
How the 12 weeks works
Weeks 1–4: LEARN PHASE
Get clear on the exact business.
Who you’ll help, with what and why you’re the one to do it.
Map it against your timescale and your family commitments.
Weeks 5–8: COACH PHASE
We’ll build your offer, what you charge, how clients book you, your presence online and your first sales conversation.
Regulated qualifications are added where you need them.
Weeks 9–12: PERFORM PHASE
We’ll get it live.
Your first conversations, first quote, first paying client, first invoice, first testimonial.
Then we keep working together so you're not on your own.
WHAT "HANDLER TO OWNER" IS
Let’s be clear up front, because people ask: I’m not recruiting handlers into anything. This is YOUR business. YOUR name. YOUR clients. I’m the one who helps you get there.
"Handler to Owner" is a 12-week programme (just like an initial course) that turns your operational dog expertise into a profitable dog business.
We build it whilst you’re still in your job, alongside your shifts.
No handing your warrant card in. No cliff edge. We build the bridge before you decide to fully cross it.
How the 12 weeks works
Weeks 1–4: LEARN PHASE
Get clear on the exact business.
Who you’ll help, with what and why you’re the one to do it.
Map it against your timescale and your family commitments.
Weeks 5–8: COACH PHASE
We’ll build your offer, what you charge, how clients book you, your presence online and your first sales conversation.
Regulated qualifications are added where you need them.
Weeks 9–12: PERFORM PHASE
We’ll get it live.
Your first conversations, first quote, first paying client, first invoice, first testimonial.
Then we keep working together so you're not on your own.
WHY ME
I’m Dave Hibbert. I built businesses long before I became an explo handler and Chief Instructor of the second largest Dog Unit.
Currently an International K9 Consultant, working with Government Agencies all around the World.
Former Head of Training at the UK’s second-largest police dog unit
Counter-terrorism operations including the Queen’s Funeral, G7 and COP26 also briefed the Home Secretary
Head of Income Generation within the UK Ministry of Defence
Approved Highfield Qualifications Centre, delivering Ofqual-regulated qualifications
Self-employed at 20, as one of the youngest qualified financial advisers.
Built businesses from scratch and turned them into award winning organisations
Founder of the IMPACT Working Dog Conference running for over a decade
No other programme in this space is run by someone who has operated at your level and has the same credentials/background.
WHY ME
I’m Dave Hibbert. I built businesses long before I became an explo handler and Chief Instructor of the second largest Dog Unit.
Currently an International K9 Consultant, working with Government Agencies all around the World.
Former Head of Training at the UK’s second-largest police dog unit
Counter-terrorism operations including the Queen’s Funeral, G7 and COP26 also briefed the Home Secretary
Head of Income Generation within the UK Ministry of Defence
Approved Highfield Qualifications Centre, delivering Ofqual-regulated qualifications
Self-employed at 20, as one of the youngest qualified financial advisers.
Built businesses from scratch and turned them into award winning organisations
Founder of the IMPACT Working Dog Conference running for over a decade
No other programme in this space is run by someone who has operated at your level and has the same credentials/background.
THE QUALIFICATIONS THAT SEPARATE YOU FROM THE CHANCERS
The civilian dog training industry is unregulated. Any chancer can call themselves a trainer and plenty do.
"Handler to Owner" adds Ofqual-regulated Highfield Qualifications to what you already know. Nationally recognised, independently verified, impossible to fake.
It’s the line between you and every other chancer.
THE QUALIFICATIONS THAT SEPARATE YOU FROM THE CHANCERS
The civilian dog training industry is unregulated. Any chancer can call themselves a trainer and plenty do.
"Handler to Owner" adds Ofqual-regulated Highfield Qualifications to what you already know. Nationally recognised, independently verified, impossible to fake.
It’s the line between you and every other chancer.
MY SIDE OF THE DEAL
I’m confident enough in how this works.
So, if you do the work - every task, every call, the public content, the first client conversations, all on time - and you haven’t landed a paying client by the end of week 12, we keep going, at no extra cost, until you do.
MY SIDE OF THE DEAL
I’m confident enough in how this works.
So, if you do the work - every task, every call, the public content, the first client conversations, all on time - and you haven’t landed a paying client by the end of week 12, we keep going, at no extra cost, until you do.
THE REAL COST IS NOT THE ACTUAL PROGRAMME.
It’s staying another five years in a job you’ve outgrown.
It's missing the family events your shifts keep taking.
It's watching chancers, with a few months' experience earning money from your profession.
If that’s the conversation you’ve been having with yourself, add your details below and I'll reply with two questions that'll tell you whether "Handler to Owner" is the right next step or whether you're better waiting.
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