Early Education Speaking Topics

Looking to bring impactful and actionable insights to your audience? HINGE Advisors delivers expert-driven content tailored for early education business owners and administrators. Whether you're hosting a webinar, workshop, or conference, we partner with associations, industry vendors, and multi-site groups to provide engaging presentations on topics like industry trends, financial health, growth strategies, staff management, enrollment success, and real estate investment. Our dynamic speakers are here to share practical strategies and inspire meaningful change — making your next event truly unforgettable. Let’s create an experience that resonates with your audience!

Our speaking topics include…

FINANCIALS

The Five Pillars of Purpose-Driven Profit

In early education, you must be financially healthy and thriving both professionally and personally to provide excellent care and education to our youngest learners while supporting teams and families. So how can you increase revenue and control costs to better serve the families in your care? In this interactive session, we’ll discuss healthy benchmarks and strategies for alignment as well as share our interactive benchmarking tool for you to use in creating your own personalized budget!

MARKETING/ENROLLMENT

Marketing Must-Haves to Boost Enrollment

Ready to boost enrollment at your early education center? In this session, we’ll uncover the must-have marketing strategies for showcasing your childcare brand and maximizing capacity at your school. Learn how to calculate the lifetime value of a customer, identify your top lead funnels (and the essentials for each!), optimize your center tours, and master follow-up techniques to build lasting connections with families in your community.

GROWTH STRATEGY

Grow! The Art of Building, Redeveloping and Acquiring Schools

Looking to expand your early education footprint? Discover the critical factors to consider when investing in new facilities or businesses. From building new facilities, to repurposing old buildings, to acquiring existing businesses and real estate, we’ll share expert guidance on what is important to know with each strategy along with what a buying process looks like and how to position your team for growth success.

STAFFING

Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent in Early Education

Attracting and keeping quality staff is one of the biggest challenges in early education. In this session, explore effective strategies to recruit passionate educators, create a supportive work environment, and build a culture that encourages long-term commitment. Discover best practices for recruitment, onboarding, training and retention as well how to foster a positive workplace culture that keeps staff motivated and engaged.

SUCCESSION PLANNING

Poised! Be Ready to Exit When Opportunity Knocks

As a business owner, building value in both your business and real estate is aligned with creating high quality services that support children, teachers and families. In this session, discover how to leverage The Five Pillars of Purpose-Driven Profit to create more resources for your early education center that will lead to greater value in both assets. We’ll explore how business and real estate value is calculated in today’s market as well as how to run a healthy selling process and what to be prepared for.

REAL ESTATE

Leveraging Real Estate for Business Growth

How much can you afford to invest in rent or ownership of your early education facility? Should you buy or rent to build wealth most effectively? In this session, we will explore the advantages and drawbacks of each approach and share how your facility can become a strategic asset. Learn how to leverage real estate decisions to build wealth, expand your company and maximize the investment potential of your property.

Meet Our Speakers

Kathy Ligon
Founder & CEO

Nan Rikard
Transaction Advisor

Marnie Rhen
Financial Analyst

Kathe Petchel
Business Development

Mike Pepper
Transaction Advisor

Rich Hubschman
Transaction Advisor

Laurie Denny
Transaction Advisor