About The Child Care Success Company

The business education your child care training left out.

ECE programs taught you to care for children. Nobody taught you pricing, hiring, marketing, or how to build a center that runs without you. For 15 years, CCS has been writing that second half, with thousands of owners across every size of center.

In Business Since 2010 1,300+ at Summit IACET Certified
Built by Owners. For Owners.
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Schools built, 1,000 kids daily
Julie Roy, Multi-Location Operator
Our Mission

Two million children. Through you.

"To positively impact the lives of 2,000,000 children. We do it through YOU, the owner of a childcare center and preschool. We do it by supporting your vision, your goals, YOUR MISSION to impact the lives of children."

Every tactic, every coaching framework, every course we build points back here. When your business is stronger, you can serve more families. When you stop losing $8,000 a week on unfilled spots, you can hire the teachers who will shape the next generation. Your success and your mission are the same thing. That is not a tagline. It is why we show up every day.

1,300 Owners · One Summit
Paul & Nina, GA
Donna, SC
The Business Gap

There is a sentence nobody finished for you.

Your early childhood education training taught you everything you needed to know about caring for children. It taught you child development, safety, curriculum, licensing, and the why behind your work. That is where the sentence ended.

Then they handed you a building, a payroll, a tuition table, and a Facebook page and told you to go figure it out. Nobody taught you how to set prices that actually cover your costs. Nobody taught you how to hire and keep great staff, how to fill empty spots, how to build the financial controls that turn a job into a business, or how to eventually step back without the whole thing collapsing.

That gap has a name: the Business Gap. Empty spots, staff turnover, pricing paralysis, founder dependency. They are not character flaws. They are the predictable result of being asked to run a business nobody taught you to run.

CCS is the business education your child care training left out. Built by child care owners, for child care owners. Tested over 15 years across thousands of centers, from single-classroom home programs to nine-location operators.

Jen Connor, CEO & the CCS Coaching Team
The Team Behind the System

Founded by an owner. Led by operators.

CCS was created by someone who lived the Business Gap firsthand and decided to close it. The company that grew from that work is now led by a team that has coached thousands of centers across every stage and size.

Kris Murray
Founder
Kris built the CCS system from the ground up and spent years proving it with real owners across the country. She is also the host of Child Care Rockstar Radio, the podcast that has educated and inspired child care owners for over a decade. The frameworks, the community, and the culture you experience today are the system Kris built.
Jen Connor
CEO
Jen leads the company today and carries the mission Kris established. Under her leadership, the coaching team has expanded its reach, deepened its curriculum, and grown the annual Summit into the largest annual gathering of child care business owners.
The Coaching Team
Your Coaches in the Trenches
Every CCS coach has deep roots in the child care industry. They know the enrollment cycle, the staffing crisis, the board and the tuition conversation. They are not consultants looking in from the outside. They are operators and specialists who have been where you are.
Child Care Rockstar Radio
The Podcast That Started It All
Hosted by founder Kris Murray, Child Care Rockstar Radio has been a free education resource for child care owners since the early days of CCS. Hundreds of episodes. Thousands of owners whose business thinking changed because of what they heard on their commute.

The credentials behind the coaching

15
YearsIn business since 2010
1,300+
OwnersAt the annual Summit
IACET
CertifiedContinuing education for child care owners

IACET certification means our continuing education meets rigorous national standards. In an industry where continuing education is required, that credential matters. It means the hours count and the content is held to a standard beyond self-assessment.

Member Spotlights

We do not tell our story. They do.

Real names. Real numbers. Real centers, from a single classroom to nine locations. These are the people the Business Gap could not hold back once they had the right tools.

Kari Boetcher
Lewis Center, Ohio

"I joined the Academy with 34 kids enrolled and was bleeding $8,000 a week. Within a couple of years I was at 135 enrolled and more than tripled my revenue. The systems work. You just have to commit to them."

34 to 135 enrolled. Revenue tripled.
Julie Roy
Multi-Location Operator

"I came in running one school. I now run nine, and we impact 1,000 children every single day."

1 school to 9. 1,000 children daily.
Donna Jensen
Conway, South Carolina

"I have had to rebuild this business twice, once after a flood took the building. Going back to basics with the Academy methods is what saved me both times. The systems hold when everything else falls apart."

Rebuilt twice. Still standing.
Paul & Nina Lemon
Lemontree Academy, Georgia

"By far in 20 years of business, joining the Childcare Success Academy is the best decision I ever made. The training and guidance is only a benefit to our whole industry. This has changed my life forever."

20 years of business. One best decision.
Community Over Content

Child care is a profession. It deserves to be recognized.

Most industries have their hall of fame. Their award dinner. Their moment where the best practitioners in the field are named out loud in front of their peers. Child care never had that. The Rockstar Awards change that. Every year at Summit, CCS names and celebrates the owners who did the work, closed the Business Gap, and transformed their centers and their communities.

"Millions of children are better off today because their owner decided to stop running on instinct and start running a real business. That deserves more than a certificate. It deserves a stage."

The community inside CCS is not a forum. It is a peer group of serious operators who have seen the same problems, applied the same frameworks, and come out the other side. When you join, you are not buying access to a course library. You are joining the people who have already done what you are trying to do.

Your mission is to change children's lives. We are here to make sure your business lets you.

Book a strategy session with a CCS coach. We will look at your enrollment, your pricing, your staffing, and your numbers, then tell you exactly what the next move is. No pitch deck. No fee. Just a real conversation about your center.

Book a Strategy Session
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