Your ECE training taught you how to care for children. It never taught you pricing, hiring, marketing, or how to build a center that does not need you in it every hour. That is the Business Gap. We close it. 15 years. 1,300+ owners at Summit. Named, numbered results.
The Child Care Success Academy is not a login link and a video library. It is a coaching community, structured for where you are right now, with named coaches leading your pod and a curriculum built for every stage of the owner journey.
Two paths into the community: join the Academy directly, or start with a free Business Breakthrough call with a CCS ECE business coach. The call is a working session. We look at your enrollment, your pricing, your staffing, and your numbers, then tell you exactly what the next move is.
No pitch deck. No pressure. Just a diagnosis from someone who has seen what you are dealing with on hundreds of other center floors.
Empty spots, staff turnover, pricing paralysis, founder dependency. Every one of those is a symptom of the same thing: nobody ever taught you to run a business. Your training stopped when you knew how to care for children. Then they handed you a building, a payroll, and a tuition table.
Jen Connor, CEO, and the CCS coaching team have worked inside thousands of centers, at every stage, from a single classroom to nine-location operators. The Academy frameworks, group coaching pods, and live events are built on what actually moves the needle for child care businesses specifically. Not generic business coaching. Child care business coaching.
The Academy is tiered to your stage. Whether you are stabilizing your first location or scaling your third, there is a coaching track sized to where you are right now and where you are going next.
This is a working call, not a sales call. A coach will look at your enrollment numbers, pricing, staffing model, and financials and give you a straight diagnosis of your single biggest leak. You leave with a clear next step, whether or not you join anything. Many owners begin their Academy journey here.
For owners in the earliest or most pressured phase of the journey. Group coaching, enrollment systems, pricing curriculum, and a pod of peers navigating the same ground. This is where Kari Boetcher started, with 34 kids and an $8,000 weekly loss.
Talk to a coach about this tierFor owners who have stabilized and now want to stop being the bottleneck. Leadership systems, team structure, financial controls, and the frameworks that let you step back without the center stepping down. The stage where most owners discover what their business is actually worth.
Talk to a coach about this tierEmpire is for owners building or running multiple locations. The Team Track extends Academy access to your directors and key staff, so the same frameworks running through the owner run through the entire organization. This is how Julie Roy went from one school to nine serving nearly 1,000 children daily.
Talk to a coach about scalingWe do not lead with our story. We lead with the people who closed the Business Gap and built something worth owning.
"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."
"I came in running one school. I now run nine, and we impact nearly 1,000 children every single day. The Academy gave me the business framework to think like an operator, not just a teacher."
"I have had to rebuild this business twice, once after a flood took the whole building. Going back to basics with the Academy methods is what saved me both times. The systems hold when everything else falls apart."
"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."
Book a free Business Breakthrough call 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 straight diagnosis from someone who has worked inside hundreds of child care businesses.
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