Seeing Something Bigger
Samantha
“I think I’m here for something bigger than just saving my school.”
“Now I feel a renewed and recharged passion and excitement that I haven’t felt in a long, long, long time.”
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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Arlington, Texas
What a Stronger Business Can Make Possible
A Stronger Business Gives You More Room for What Comes Next.
More room to think beyond the next staffing problem, enrollment challenge, or urgent decision and start choosing where you want to take the business from here.
More freedom to decide where your attention goes, what opportunities you pursue, and what you want this business to make possible for you next.
At Summit, you spend four days around child care owners who have built different versions of stronger businesses, giving you real-world reference points for what could be possible in your own.
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.
I've watched owners develop leaders they trust, put stronger structure around the business, and reach a point where not every important decision depends on them.
It doesn't have to be perfect for ownership to start feeling different.
I've seen enough owners make that shift to know there isn't only one way child care ownership has to look.
At Summit, I want you around more of those owners so you can see for yourself how differently a strong child care business can operate.
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.
A stronger business does not eliminate every challenge. It becomes better able to handle them through capable leadership, clearer numbers, more consistent enrollment, and systems that create more stability in the day-to-day.
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Leaders Carry Real Responsibility
Capable leaders solve problems, coach their teams, and make meaningful decisions without everything coming back to the owner.
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Enrollment Becomes More Consistent
Marketing, follow-up, and the family experience work together to create steadier enrollment without relying on constant scrambling.
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The Numbers Guide Better Decisions
Clear visibility into profit, cash flow, and key financial drivers helps the owner make decisions with more confidence and less guesswork.
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Systems Help Protect the Standard
Strong systems create consistency so quality depends less on memory, individual effort, or the owner being involved in everything.
When the business can carry more of the load, the owner gets more freedom to decide what comes 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
Being in the Room Changes What You Can See for Your Own Business.
You are not only hearing what worked for someone else. You are seeing how different owners think, what they chose, what they changed, and what became possible as their businesses grew stronger.
See It Up Close
See Different Versions of Strong Ownership
See owners who have built different teams, roles, structures, and growth paths.
Have the Conversations
Hear How Other Owners Think
Ask questions and understand how they made decisions, solved problems, and chose what came next.
Expand Your Options
See More Ways Forward
Every new example gives you another reference point for what could work in your own business.
You do not have to copy another owner's business. The value is seeing enough different approaches to make better choices about your own.
See Summit in Motion
See What Happens When the Room Comes Together.
“It’s not a competitive energy. People are wanting to share ideas, and it’s really about building relationships.”
New for 2026
The Right Conversation, Idea, or Connection Can Change What You Do Next.
For 2026, Summit gives you more ways to encounter the people, ideas, and resources that could change what you do when you get home.
New Topics + Breakouts
Encounter New Perspectives
Explore business questions and conversations that could change how you approach what comes next.
New Companies + Partners
Discover More Options
Explore tools, services, and relationships that may fit what your business needs next.
Wednesday Welcome Reception
Start the Conversations Earlier
Meet other child care leaders and begin building relationships before the main Summit days begin.
Saturday Evening Summit Finale
Keep the Conversations Going
Stay in the room longer as relationships, ideas, and conversations continue into Saturday evening.
One Family. One More Yes.
See What One Full-Time Enrollment Could Mean for Your Business.
Select your approximate weekly tuition to see the gross tuition value of one full-time enrollment over a year.
$350
/ week
Select your approximate weekly full-time enrollment rate. The annual value updates instantly.
One Full-Time Enrollment. One Year.
$18,200
in gross tuition over one year at your selected weekly rate.
And that's the math for just one family.
One idea, conversation, or new approach can change what you do when you get home. Filling just one more open spot can mean a full year of tuition from one additional enrollment.
Illustrative annualized gross-tuition math based on one child enrolled full-time at the selected weekly tuition. Actual billed tuition and enrollment duration vary by program and family. Gross tuition does not account for expenses, discounts, closures, absences, subsidies, or other variables. The example above reflects an owner's reported experience. Individual results vary.
Watch This Video to Discover Just a Fraction of What You Will Experience When You Attend This Summit
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What You Can Explore at Summit
Bring the Questions That Matter Most to Your Business.
You do not need the same conversations as every other owner. Follow the questions most relevant to where you want your business to go next.
Leadership + Team Performance
How can more responsibility live with your leaders and team?
Operations + Automations
Where could stronger systems make the day-to-day depend less on individual effort?
Enrollment + Growth
What could create a more reliable path from family interest to enrollment?
Profit + Cash + Funding
What could clearer financial visibility help you decide with more confidence?
Parent Experience
How can the family experience become an even stronger reason families choose, stay, and refer?
Safety + Security
Where could stronger safeguards better support children, staff, families, and the business?
Food Program
Could your food program become easier to manage while better supporting quality and cost control?
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 Ticket2026 Summit Speakers
Different Perspectives Can Open Different Possibilities.
Meet child care owners, operators, experts, and leaders bringing different experience and ways of thinking to the Child Care Success Summit.
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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Child Care Success Summit 2026
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October 7–10, 2026 • Arlington, Texas
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Hear From Child Care Leaders
Wherever You Are in the Business, There May Be More to See.
Hear from three child care leaders who came to Summit from very different places in their businesses and discovered something they had not seen before.
Discovering There Was Still More
Michele
“I was very successful and I thought, ‘What could they possibly teach me?’ And my mind was blown that weekend.”
“It reenergizes, recharges, makes you think about things that you might not have been focused on before.”
Growing Into Leadership
Sister Mercedes
“When I was asked to be the director of our daycare, I did not see myself as a leader.”
“The Summit has helped me incredibly in how I see myself as a leader.”
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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.
More Than the Three Days in Arlington
Running a Center Takes One Set of Skills. Building the Business Takes Another.
Child care owners are expected to understand enrollment, money, hiring, leadership, operations, and growth while still managing everything the center demands. Your Summit ticket includes six additional resources to help you keep building those business-owner skills before and after Arlington.
Bonus #1
The ECE Growth Lab Breakout Vault
See how experienced childcare operators approach leadership, enrollment, systems, and growth so you have more business-building ideas to draw from when deciding what comes next.
$1,197 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Bonus #2
The Enrollment Rescue Series
Strengthen demand, tours, follow-up, and enrollment momentum so empty seats do not keep creating unnecessary pressure on the business.
$797 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Bonus #3
How to Budget and Manage Your Money
Get clearer about cash flow, expenses, budgeting, and financial benchmarks so the numbers behind the center can guide stronger business decisions.
$497 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Bonus #4
Interview Like a Pro, Hire Like a Boss
Strengthen the front end of hiring with better questions, clearer evaluation, and a stronger process for choosing people who can contribute to the business you are building.
$697 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Bonus #5
The Inner ECE Owners Strategic Growth Series
Build your business-owner skills across compliance, staff performance, parent relationships, enrollment, operations, and growth as the center becomes more complex.
$997 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Bonus #6
45-Minute Business Breakthrough Call
Have a focused conversation about what is creating the most drag in your business, what is already working, and where your attention can create the greatest movement next.
$597 Value
Included With Your Ticket
Six Business-Building Resources: $4,782 Value Included With Your Summit Ticket
More Than the Four Days in Arlington
Your Summit Ticket Also Includes $4,782 in Business-Building Resources.
Six additional trainings and tools are included with your ticket to help you keep building across enrollment, finance, hiring, leadership, operations, and growth before and after Summit.
Enrollment • Finance • Hiring • Leadership • Operations • Growth
VIEW SUMMIT TICKETSYour 2026 Summit Experience
See How the Four Days Build on Each Other.
Summit begins Wednesday evening and builds through Saturday, with each day adding something different to the experience.
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Start With the Welcome Reception
Meet other attendees, make early connections, and get oriented before the main Summit days begin.
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Main Stage + Breakout Experiences
Move through featured sessions, breakout conversations, and opportunities to explore different business topics.
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Go Deeper Into the Summit Experience
Continue the main-stage and breakout experience while connecting ideas to the questions most relevant to your business.
4
Finish Strong and Bring It Together
Use the final day to connect what stood out, continue key conversations, and bring the Summit experience together at the Saturday evening Summit Finale.
Our Summit Guarantee
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Attend Day One. Decide for Yourself.
Attend Day One of the Child Care Success Summit. If by 6:00 PM you are not completely satisfied with the value you received, tell a member of our team. 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
Questions About Attending Summit?
Find quick answers to the most common questions about the 2026 Child Care Success Summit.
No. Summit is designed for child care owners, multi-site operators, directors, and leadership team members who carry meaningful responsibility for the business.
Summit takes place October 7–10, 2026 at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas.
Plan to arrive Wednesday, October 7. Summit begins Wednesday evening with the Welcome Reception and continues through the Saturday evening Summit Finale. Plan to depart Sunday, October 11.
You can attend on your own or bring members of your leadership team. Bringing a director or key leader gives you shared context for the conversations, ideas, and decisions you may want to carry forward after Summit.
Your ticket includes the Summit experience from Wednesday evening through the Saturday evening Summit Finale, plus $4,782 in six additional business-building trainings and tools. Full details are available on the ticket page.
Summit is not built around collecting continuing education hours. Its primary focus is the business and leadership side of child care, including leadership, enrollment, financial performance, operations, people, growth, and parent experience.
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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