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, early childhood education keynote 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!

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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!

BUSINESS SCALING

Scaling Your ECE Business in a Challenging Environment

Scaling a successful early education business goes beyond adding classrooms or launching new locations — it’s about building a sustainable, efficient model that can grow without sacrificing quality. In this session, we’ll explore the key pathways leaders are using to scale: optimizing high-performing centers, acquiring existing schools, building new facilities, and partnering with strategic investors. We’ll cover how to increase profitability, maintain operational excellence, and make smart investments that create long-term value. In today’s complex environment, this session will equip you with the strategies, benchmarks, and decision-making frameworks needed to scale with intention.

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.

INDUSTRY UPDATE

What Business and Financial Factors are Shaping the Industry

The early education landscape continues to shift, shaped by financial realities, evolving parent preferences, and major market trends. In this session, we’ll dive into the economic forces and business behaviors influencing today’s early education centers, including tuition rate trends, staffing investments, occupancy challenges, and changing demand across age groups. We’ll also explore how increased buyer interest and greenfield growth opportunities are affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term planning. Whether you’re leading a single location or a multi-site enterprise, this timely session will equip you with the insights and data needed to make informed decisions in a fast-moving industry.

SUCCESSION PLANNING

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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.