“We decided to bring our entire leadership team and I think they’re all drinking the Kool-Aid, which is fantastic. There is so much to learn from this.”
The Child Care Success Summit 2026
You Can Have a
Stronger Child Care Business
Without It Requiring More and More of You.
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October 7–10, 2026
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What a Stronger Business Can Make Possible
A Stronger Business Gives You More Room for What Comes Next.
More room to think about where you want to go, make the decisions that matter, and consider what you want the business to make possible next.
And as capable leaders carry real responsibility and stronger systems create more consistency, more of the day-to-day can happen without requiring your direct involvement.
That is the kind of strength the Child Care Success Summit is designed to help you build.
OCTOBER 8-10, 2026 IN ARLINGTON, TX (DALLAS AREA)
Discover How Top Child Care Owners Are Reclaiming Their Time, Building Staff-Run Centers, and Scaling Income and Leave with a Clear Plan That Puts You in Control.
From Jennifer Conner
I've Watched Child Care Owners Build Businesses That Give Them More Room.
One of the things I've seen again and again while working with child care owners is how different ownership can begin to feel as the business gets stronger.
A leader steps up and carries real responsibility. A stronger system creates consistency. An important decision gets made with greater clarity.
And the owner has more room to think about where they want to go next.
It doesn't have to be perfect for it to start feeling different.
I've watched owners develop leaders they trust, put stronger structure around the business, and gain more freedom to make decisions about what they want next.
That is why I want Summit to give you more than information.
At Summit, I want you surrounded by people, ideas, examples, and resources that help you see more possibilities for the business you want to own and practical ways to move toward them.
Are There Gaps in Your Child Care Business You’ve Been Continuously Struggling with That You Want Solved for Good?
It’s time to transform your ECE Business and your life.
From the desk of Jennifer Conner:
As an owner of a child care business, I understand that you are faced with a unique set of challenges compared to other business owners. The ever-increasing demands, staffing crisis, administrative burdens, and competitive landscape can often leave us feeling overwhelmed and struggling to keep up.
But what if I told you that there is a solution? What if I told you that there is an event specifically designed to address the pain points you face as a child care business owner and provide you with the tools, knowledge, and support you need to overcome these challenges and achieve lasting success?
I’m writing to you today to let you know that it really is possible for you to get “unstuck” and start seeing growth in your business again. I know this is true because, over the last decade, I have worked alongside hundreds of ECE owners who have attended The Child Care Success Summit who have been in the exact position as you.
What Strength Looks Like in Practice
A Stronger Business Responds Differently.
Staffing changes, enrollment shifts, regulations, and unexpected challenges do not disappear as the business gets stronger. What changes is how well the business is equipped to respond through stronger leaders, clearer information, better systems, and better decisions.
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Leaders Carry Real Responsibility
Capable leaders solve problems, coach their teams, make meaningful decisions, and help move the business forward.
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Enrollment Becomes More Consistent
Marketing, follow-up, and the family experience work together to create a steadier flow of enrollment and a stronger foundation for growth.
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The Numbers Guide Better Decisions
Greater visibility into profit, cash flow, and the financial drivers of the business gives owners more confidence in the decisions they make.
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Systems Help Protect the Standard
Stronger structure creates more consistency in how the work gets done, so quality is supported by the business rather than memory alone.
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More of Your Attention Can Go to What Comes Next
As more of the day-to-day is supported by capable people and stronger structure, you have more room for leadership, important decisions, and growth.
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More Choices Begin to Open Up
Stronger leaders, better visibility, and greater consistency give you more options for what you want to build, pursue, or make possible next.
Summit is designed to help you strengthen the people, systems, information, and decision-making behind the business so you can make more deliberate choices about what you want ownership to make possible next.
Discover the Secrets to Growing Your Business that Other ECE Business Owners Know But You Don’t
- You want to improve your staff turnover and find a consistent stream of A-player teachers who seek out working for your business. You’ve noticed that your turnover rates have had an impact on the stability and quality of care provided to the children you serve and you want to turn that around.
- You’ve been seeking out new effective approaches and strategies to manage your enrollment and family retention in your business, but being in a competitive market has made it difficult for you.
- With inflation on the rise, you’re finding it more difficult to effectively navigate the complexities of financial management, including setting appropriate tuition rates, managing expenses, budgeting, ensuring cash flow, and navigating insurance and licensing costs, all while maintaining a high standard of care.
- You feel like you can’t keep up with the ever-evolving licensing requirements, health and safety standards, and inspections. You need a better system to keep up-to-date on your proper documentation and regulatory changes.
- You’ve become so buried in administrative tasks and paperwork that you no longer feel like you’re being productive during your time in your office. You need to implement better processes and systems for record-keeping, reporting, billing, and parent communications so you can work smarter, not harder.
- You haven’t been able to find the time to prioritize your own professional development and keep up with industry trends, best practices, and new advancements, yet alone network and collaborate with other owners that are facing the same challenges as you.
If any of these describe you, then you owe it to yourself (and your family, employees, and clients) to break through the obstacles in your path.
Why the Room Matters
Summit Puts You Closer to Owners Who Have Already Built More of What You Want.
You will spend Summit around child care owners who have already created more growth, stronger teams, greater choice, and more room in how they own and lead their businesses. That kind of proximity creates a different opportunity.
See It Up Close
See Different Versions of Strong Ownership
Spend time around owners who have built stronger teams, created more structure, grown their businesses, and shaped their own roles in different ways.
Have the Conversations
Hear How Other Owners Think
Hear how other owners have thought through the decisions, transitions, opportunities, and business questions that come with building and leading a successful child care business.
Expand Your Options
See More Ways to Build What Comes Next
The more examples and perspectives you encounter, the more options you can consider for how you want to lead, grow, and shape the business from here.
There is not one version of a successful child care business you have to copy. Summit gives you access to more examples of what strong ownership can look like.
See Summit in Motion
See What Happens When the Room Comes Together.
The value of Summit does not live only on the stage. It is in the conversations between sessions, the owners you meet, the perspectives you encounter, and the unexpected ideas or connections that can influence what you do next.
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This is a glimpse of what the Summit room can create. And for 2026, we're expanding the experience to create more chances for the right conversation, idea, connection, or discovery to influence what you do next.
New for 2026
The Right Conversation, Idea, or Connection Can Change What You Do Next.
That is why we've expanded Summit for 2026. Not simply to add more to the schedule, but to create more places for the right conversations, ideas, discoveries, and relationships to develop throughout Summit.
New Topics + Breakout Sessions
Encounter New Perspectives
New topics and breakout sessions open up conversations Summit has not explored before, giving you more opportunities to hear ideas and perspectives that will influence how you approach the business and what you pursue next.
New Companies + Partners
Discover More Options for Your Business
New companies and partners give you more opportunities to ask questions, explore resources, and discover tools, services, or relationships that open up new options for your business.
Wednesday Welcome Reception
Give New Relationships More Time to Begin
Summit now begins Wednesday evening with a welcome reception, creating more time to meet other child care leaders, start conversations, and build connections before everyone moves deeper into the experience.
Saturday Evening Closing Event
Give Valuable Conversations More Time to Continue
Summit continues through Saturday evening with a new closing event that brings the room back together and gives conversations, relationships, and connections more time before everyone heads home.
None of these additions are here simply to give you more to do. They create more chances to encounter the person, idea, resource, or relationship that could influence what you do next.
Plan for the Full 2026 Experience
October 7–10, 2026 in Arlington, Texas
Summit begins Wednesday evening and continues through the Saturday evening closing event. Plan to arrive Wednesday and depart Sunday so you can experience Summit from beginning to end.
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What You Can Explore at Summit
Bring the Questions That Matter Most to Your Business.
You don't need to come to Summit focused on every part of the business. You can go deeper into the conversations most relevant to the decisions, opportunities, and next moves that matter most to your business.
Leadership + Team Performance
How can more responsibility live with your leaders and team?
Operations + Automations
Where could stronger systems create more consistency and make day-to-day execution easier to support?
Enrollment + Growth
What could create a stronger, more reliable path from family interest to enrollment?
Profit + Cash + Funding
What could better financial visibility allow you to decide with greater confidence?
Parent Experience
How can the family experience become an even stronger reason families choose, stay, and refer?
Safety + Security
Where can stronger safeguards better support children, staff, families, and the business?
Food Program
How can your food program better support quality, consistency, and the way your center operates?
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Summit is not built around one version of what every child care owner needs. It gives you multiple places to explore the questions most relevant to the business you are building.
What Three Days Can Open Up
This Is Your Opportunity to Build a Stronger Child Care Business
Summit is not about collecting more information. It is about seeing what is possible, learning how stronger childcare businesses are being built, and deciding what could change in yours next.
Build Leaders Who Can Carry More
Develop directors and key team members who can make stronger decisions, solve more problems, reinforce standards, and help move the business forward without waiting for you at every turn.
Create More Predictable Enrollment
Discover how stronger marketing, follow-up, reputation, and family experience can work together so enrollment becomes something you build intentionally instead of something you worry about when classrooms are not full.
Build a More Profitable Business
Get clearer about the numbers that actually drive the company so you can make better decisions about tuition, payroll, expenses, growth, and what the business needs to become financially stronger.
Make the Business Less Dependent on You
See how stronger people, clearer expectations, better systems, and greater accountability can allow the business to handle more without requiring you to personally carry every detail.
See What Other Successful Owners Are Doing Differently
Spend three days around child care owners who are solving the same kinds of problems you face and building stronger companies in the same industry you operate in.
Get Clear About What Comes Next
Step away from the demands waiting back at the center long enough to think about the bigger business, identify what deserves your attention now, and leave with a clearer direction for what you want to build next.
You do not need to solve every problem in three days. You need to see the possibilities clearly enough to know what deserves to change first.
Secure My Summit TicketPerspectives Coming to Summit
Different Questions Benefit From Different Perspectives.
Summit brings together child care owners, operators, experts, and leaders with different experience to share, giving you more perspectives to consider as you think about the decisions and opportunities in your own business.
There’s No Other Conference, Bootcamp, Summit or Gathering Like the Child Care Success Summit! This is Your Opportunity to:
Gain Expert Knowledge
The lineup of renowned speakers and industry experts will provide you with the latest research, best practices, and innovative strategies to elevate your child care business. From effective marketing techniques to staff management, financial planning to curriculum development, you will gain practical insights that can drive your business forward.
Be a Better Leader
We're bringing in highly successful business owners to talk about how to be a smarter, more effective and successful entrepreneur and how to be a leader in your early learning business. We’ve restructured the way we do breakout sessions to eliminate “vendor pitches” and just bring pure strategic content to you, for both directors and owners.
Fall In Love With Your Business Again
It's NOT just about "positive thinking" and motivation – although you will feel highly motivated when you leave. "More motivation" is a far too simplistic answer to the tough problems you are dealing with in your child care business. You need ANSWERS, clarity and solid, proven advice – which is exactly what you will get when you attend.
extremely productive environment
It's about being an active participant in a unique and extremely productive environment to help you get refocused on doing the RIGHT things to grow and succeed, whether that means maximizing the enrollment and staff excellence of one location, or growing to your 3rd, 5th, or 15th location.
Achieve new levels of growth and income
It's about providing you with the ONLY opportunity to see, in great depth, exactly how your peers are breaking through their current income, time and staff limitations to achieve phenomenal new levels of growth and income.
marketing and business-building strategies
It's about you getting to spend 3 full days with other success-focused early learning entrepreneurs who are "heavy users" of the Child Care Success Method™ strategies and methods, many of whom have been with us for years and can attribute huge increases in their personal wealth to the marketing and business-building strategies presented.
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Bring Your Questions to Summit
Get in the Room With the People, Perspectives, and Conversations That Can Shape What You Do Next.
Come with the decisions and opportunities already on your mind. Summit gives you access to more people and perspectives to consider as you decide where you want to go from here.
Save $7000 on Your Summit TicketOctober 7–10, 2026 in Arlington, Texas • Summer Savings tickets are currently $597
Hear From Child Care Owners
Different Owners Come to Summit Looking for Different Things.
The people in the room are building different businesses, leading different teams, and thinking through different questions. Hear what several child care leaders found valuable about their own Summit experience.
“As a CEO with experience attending various ECE conferences, I can confidently say none compare to this one. The energy, practical content, and genuine camaraderie were unparalleled. I wish I had found this Summit sooner.”
“This has been the most amazing experience that I have ever had. If you’re thinking about growing your business or just thinking about going to the next level, this is the absolute best place to come.”
There is no single reason every child care leader comes to Summit. The common thread is having access to a room where different ideas, people, and perspectives can become valuable for the business they are building.
Picture Yourself at Summit
There Is More Than One Way to Build a Strong Child Care Business.
The room is filled with child care owners and leaders building different businesses, pursuing different opportunities, and bringing different questions with them.
You don't have to build the same kind of business as anyone else in the room. Summit gives you the chance to see many different versions of strong child care ownership up close.
Our Summit Guarantee
We Stand Behind the Summit Experience.
Come experience the people, perspectives, ideas, and opportunities Summit brings together. Our guarantee gives you the confidence to step into the experience and see the value for yourself.
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Your Experience Is What Matters.
Be in the room. Hear the conversations. Explore the ideas, perspectives, and connections that become relevant to you and your business.
If you are not completely satisfied under the guarantee terms, we will refund your registration and add $500.
Guarantee Details
100% of your registration fee back, plus $500.
Attend Day One of the Child Care Success Summit. If by 6:00 PM you are not completely satisfied with the value you have received, let a member of our team know. We will refund 100% of your registration fee and give you an additional $500 for your time and travel costs.
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What Attendees Have to Say...
“We decided to bring our entire leadership team and I think they’re all drinking the Kool-Aid, which is fantastic. There is so much to learn from this.”
“This has been the most amazing experience that I have ever had. If you’re thinking about growing your business or just thinking about going to the next level, this is the absolute best place to come.”
Summit Questions
Everything You Need to Know Before You Join Us.
Here are answers to some of the most common questions about attending the 2026 Child Care Success Summit.
The Child Care Success Summit is a business and leadership event created for child care owners, operators, directors, and leadership teams who want to build stronger businesses and make more deliberate decisions about where they go from here.
Summit brings together child care leaders, experienced owners, speakers, experts, strategic partners, ideas, and resources around the real business of owning and operating a child care organization.
The goal is not to give every attendee the same answer. It is to give you access to more perspectives, conversations, and possibilities as you consider the business you want to build.
Summit is designed for child care owners, multi-site operators, directors, and leadership team members who carry meaningful responsibility for the business.
There is no single business size or stage you have to reach before Summit becomes relevant. The people in the room are leading different organizations, pursuing different opportunities, and thinking through different decisions.
The common thread is wanting to build and lead a stronger child care business.
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You may arrive with a specific decision, opportunity, or business question already on your mind. Or you may simply know that you want something about the way you own, lead, or grow the business to look different.
Summit gives you access to different conversations, examples, and perspectives so you can pay attention to what becomes most relevant to you once you are in the experience.
The 2026 Child Care Success Summit takes place October 7–10, 2026 in Arlington, Texas.
Summit will be held at the Loews Arlington Hotel, 888 Nolan Ryan Expressway, Arlington, Texas 76011.
The full Summit experience begins Wednesday evening and continues through the Saturday evening closing event. Plan to arrive Wednesday and depart Sunday.
Summit creates opportunities to explore different parts of the child care business depending on what is most relevant to you. Areas of conversation include:
- Leadership and team performance
- Operations and automations
- Enrollment and growth
- Profit, cash flow, and funding
- Parent experience
- Safety and security
- Food programs
You do not need every topic to apply to you. The opportunity is to go deeper into the questions, decisions, and possibilities that matter most to the business you are building.
Summit is not built around collecting continuing education hours. Its primary focus is the business and leadership side of child care.
The conversations center on areas such as leadership, enrollment, financial performance, operations, people, growth, parent experience, and the decisions involved in building a stronger organization.
Yes. Being around other child care owners and leaders is an important part of the Summit experience.
Summit begins with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, includes opportunities for conversations throughout the experience, and continues through a new Saturday evening closing event.
The value is not simply meeting more people. You get to spend meaningful time around owners who have built different businesses, made different decisions, and created different versions of strong child care ownership.
You can attend Summit on your own or bring members of your leadership team.
Bringing a director or key leader can be especially valuable when you want them to be part of the same conversations, hear the same perspectives, and have context for decisions you may want to make together after Summit.
The right choice depends on what you want your Summit experience to make possible for your organization.
Summit brings together companies and strategic partners serving many of the real business needs of child care organizations, including technology, enrollment, operations, finance, staffing, safety, supplies, facilities, parent experience, food programs, and more.
This is designed to be more than a traditional vendor hall. You will have opportunities to ask questions, explore resources, see solutions more closely, and meet people behind companies that may open up new options for your business.
Your registration gives you access to the 2026 Child Care Success Summit experience from Wednesday evening through the Saturday evening closing event.
Your Summit ticket also currently includes $4,782 in bonus trainings and business-building tools designed to give you additional resources beyond the live event.
Full details about the current bonuses are available on the Summit ticket page.
Summer Savings tickets are currently $597 per person through September 7, 2026.
That is a savings of $700 off the full $1,297 Summit ticket price.
Ticket pricing will increase after the current Summer Savings period ends.
The standard deadline to request a Summit ticket refund was August 15, 2026.
The Summit experience guarantee described above is separate from the standard refund policy. Review the guarantee section on this page for the current terms of that guarantee.
If you have a registration question, contact the Child Care Success team at support@childcaresuccess.com .
Frequently Asked Questions About The Child Care Success Summit
A. Sessions and breakouts cover child care marketing and enrollment growth, tuition pricing strategy, staff hiring and retention, leadership development for directors and owners, business profitability and cash flow, operational systems and efficiency, and how to expand to multiple child care locations. The focus is practical. You will leave with specific numbers, specific scripts, and specific systems, not inspiration you forget soon as the day ends.
A. Yes. You will be in the room with hundreds of child care business owners and the Child Care Success Company coaching team. Not a lecture hall where you sit in rows and listen. A working environment where you can ask your specific question about your specific center to someone who has solved that exact problem. The conversations in the hallways are often worth as much as the sessions.
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A. Tickets to The Child Care Success Summit 2026 are currently available for $597 per person.
Secure your ticket and join childcare owners, directors, leadership team members, business partners, and other key leaders for three days focused on the business behind the care.
Ticket pricing will increase as Summit gets closer.
A. If you are no longer able to attend the event and would like a refund, please email our Support Team at support@childcaresuccess.com for assistance and help. No refunds will be provided past Saturday, August 15, 2026 for any reason.
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