Founder & CEO of HINGE Brokers, Kathy Ligon, authored Child Care Exchange Magazine’s Thirty-Third Annual Status Report on For-Profit Child Care. The article reveals high optimism for continued growth in the industry as well as the development of creative strategies and collaborations to help combat staffing issues and address concerns surrounding universal Pre-K initiatives.

We are so excited about our newly created team of industry experts, put together to further support our sellers during their selling process. Meet our new Client Relations team: Kathe Petchel and Molly Petchel!

HINGE Founder & CEO Kathy Ligon shares her insights on setting yourself up for success in 2020. Find out what methodology she uses to determine what’s essential to her sanity and her success in this year-end letter.

Childcare business owners often catch themselves working in their business instead of on it. And with the incredible amount of incoming distractions, it’s easy for owners to get bogged down in tasks that might be good to do but aren’t essential to operating a quality, financially healthy business…

Kathy will present The Five Essential Elements of Financial Health: An Overview on Wednesday, December 11th beginning at 1pm EST. Her presentation will provide a sneak peek into the five things that childcare business owners need to pay strong attention to in order to become financially strong.

The team at HINGE Brokers is pleased to announce the successful sale of business and real estate for longstanding childcare center, Crossroad Kidz, in Moore, Oklahoma.

The team at HINGE Early Education Brokers is pleased to announce the successful sale of business and real estate for two childcare centers in Long Island, New York.

The HINGE team met up in beautiful Lake Keowee, SC over the first week of November to set our 2020 strategic plans and were joined once again by executive coach Linda Salane and leadership coach Phyllis Nolan. Click to see photos from the week!

The team at HINGE is pleased to announce the sale of the operations of childcare center in Lake Orion, Michigan to another quality school operating within the same community. Find out who in this blog!

Our HINGE team will be presenting workshops on both the east and west coast this month. Find Mike Pepper, Molly Petchel and Kathe Petchel at the CQEL Fall Education Conference on the first of the month and mid-month you can find Kathe Petchel in Virginia for the ChildCare Aware of Virginia Business Summit. Learn more in this blog!

October will be a busy month for our brokers and consultants as they travel from coast to coast to present at childcare conferences in California, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Learn more details in this blog.

HINGE arrived in Denver last week for our one-of-a-kind financial deep dive with early education business owners and directors. Click to hear what attendees experienced on the day and see photos for this year’s event!