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SPONSOR MEET UP - CBG LIVE 2025 - WEDNESDAY JULY 23RD

Before the main event kicks off, we’re hosting a private mastermind just for our sponsors — a powerful 2-hour strategy session designed to help you connect, grow, and collaborate with other mission-driven businesses in the early childhood education space.

This session is on Wednesday 23rd July at 4-5:30pm.

Set Up

As a sponsor, your booth will be located in the foyer just outside the main room — a high-visibility space where attendees will pass through multiple times each day.

Here’s how the day will flow:

Arrive at the venue as planned at 4pm

Join us in the afternoon for a 2-hour sponsor-only mastermind

After the session, you’ll have plenty of time to set up your booth in the foyer

Our team will be on hand to support you with setup needs

This setup ensures you won’t feel rushed — and you’ll start the event already plugged into a supportive community of fellow sponsors.

Event Speakers

Beth Cannon

Tym The Trainer

Dr Zac Bauerman

Charity Holland

Teri De Lucca

Wei-Li Chong

Why show up...

This isn’t just a warm-up — it’s a high-value strategy session designed specifically for you. You’ll:

Learn what’s working for other growing brands

Get guidance on maximizing your visibility and booth traffic

Build real relationships with fellow sponsors and business leaders

Walk away with actionable insights to grow your business beyond the event

Event Sponsors

Past Event Speakers

Dr Deborah Tillman

Nick

Williams

Chanie Wilschanski

Beth Cannon

Lyn Askin

Jaon Lody

Jessica Wright

Jessica Hyche

Jennifer Stukey

Asia Rivers

Jenna Willams

Shelbra mcnight

Sophie Kerr

Jessica Hampton

Rachel Supalla

Ronnae Williams

Vernon Mason Jr.

Anthony D’Agostino

Stephanie Bennett

Lyndsey Hellyn

Jennifer Vazquez

Daphene Booker- Harris

Samantha Phillips

Nick Santonastasso

Dr Brittany Hewett

Dr Teri

DeLucca

Ana

Hampson

Todd

Harris

Junior Bernadin

Cris

Rodriguez

Summer Picha

Andrew Lock

Jessica Johnsen

Where Will CBG Mastermind Be Held?

The Event Will Be Held At Kimpton EPIC Miami, 270 BISCAYNE BLVD. WAY MIAMI, FL 33131

As one of the trendiest boutique hotels, in Miami, you can surround yourself with the Magic City's shimmering lights from your private balcony (every guest room and suite has one). Splash into two rooftop pools. Enjoy locally sourced global cuisine at two restaurants.

As An exclusive CBG member you will also access:

Complimentary Wi-Fi in all guestrooms

($12/day value)

Complimentary coffee and tea every morning on our living room (7am - 10am $8/day value)

Complimentary EPIC Eco-bicycles

If you havent booked your hotel room yet, here is the room discount link to stay at the hotel.

Event Sponsors

8:00am - Registration

The Childcare Business Growth Team on hand to welcome you to the event. If you haven’t registered the night before, please ensure you arrive early enough to get registered and make the most of the networking opportunities. You’ll have the opportunity to explore the Sponsor Foyer.

8:15am - Early Access

Early Access for Inner Circle Members and Guest Speakers.

8:30am - Doors Open

Doors will open to the main hall to all attendees.

9:00am - 12:15pm: Morning Session

12:15 - 1:45pm: LUNCH BREAK

1:45pm - 6:00pm: Afternoon Session

Devon Brown

Kick-Starting CBG Live

Our incredible emcee, will give us a warm welcome along with an overview of what to expect at Child Care Business Growth Live. Devon will feature throughout the event, recapping key takeaways and getting us all pumped and ready to transform our businesses.

Nick Williams

The Future Success of Your Business Depends on This….

Nick will be kicking off our first session sharing the fundamentals of what it takes to have a hugely successful childcare business, and it all starts with the basics that 85% of Child Care businesses don't have in place. He’ll be giving you the exact systems and templates you need, so you'll not only have a clear path on where you're going, but you'll have all the fundamental marketing structures to get you there before you scale your business.

Chanie Wilschanski

How To Sustain A Culture Of Excellence

Chanie Wilschanski, Host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast, is an Early Childhood Leadership Coach, CEO, and Founder of Schools of Excellence.

Chanie will be sharing her 'Connection Bridge method', the 6 meta skills that construct intelligence, self awareness and discernment needed of staff to build a school of excellence. When these skills are taught, mentored, and coached, they create a ripple effect to the children, families, and school culture.

Cris Rodriguez

7 Figure Productivity & Time Management Strategies

Cris is a multiple seven-figure business owner, realtor, wife and mother that specializes in helping entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses whilst ultimately doing less. In this session, Cris will share with us the exact steps on what it takes to run multiple businesses, whilst still ensuring she is home by 5:30pm every day.

Beth Cannon

Dare to be Self Aware

Beth is an international speaker, educator, and entrepreneur known for her passion for engaging leaders and inspiring teams.

Beth will give you tools to understand your core motivations and hesitations, and how to use the Enneagram tool to support your team in becoming more self-aware and emotionally intelligent. You’ll leave with a clear direction, a confident communication strategy, and a commitment to know yourself and your team better.

Brian & Carol Duprey

The Childcare Millionaire Mission to Master Mindset

Brian and Carol have opened and operated successful child care centers in central Maine and are certified child care coaches, motivational speakers, and hosts of the Child Care Genius Podcast.

In this session, they will be sharing:

The secrets they have used to create a multi-million dollar child care business.
How to have a warrior mindset in order to dominate your market.
The power of diversification to create generational wealth.
How to work with a spouse or business partner without killing each other.
How to shift your mindset to accomplish any goal you set.

In this session, they will be sharing:

The secrets they have used to create a multi-million dollar child care business.
How to have a warrior mindset in order to dominate your market.
The power of diversification to create generational wealth.
How to work with a spouse or business partner without killing each other.
How to shift your mindset to accomplish any goal you set.

Nick Williams

How To Hire And Retain A-Players On Your Team!

At some point in your business, you’ll start to gain exciting momentum with enrolling children into your childcare! When that happens, you’ll hit a threshold… If you’re going to grow any further, you’ll need HELP. That's when the question becomes… “How do I expand my TEAM - and hire and retain the BEST staff, so I can continue to scale?”

Staff Recruitment is a big challenge for a lot of businesses right now. Nick will share with you exactly how to find, hire and retain A-Players to your team whilst standing out from all the other competition who are also struggling with staff recruitment... and you can repeat this system again and again to grow your business however large you wish!

Staff Recruitment is a big challenge for a lot of businesses right now. Nick will share with you exactly now to find, hire and retain A-Players to your team whilst standing out from all the other competition who are also struggling with staff recruitment... and you can repeat this system again and again to grow your business however large you wish!

**SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION**

JUNIOR BERNADIN - Ron Clark School

How To Be A Leader With Influence

Junior is the Dean of Students at the highly-acclaimed Ron Clark Academy (RCA). He has helped train over 100,000 educators from around the World to learn better ways to engage students, increase academic rigor, and create a climate and culture for success. Junior is going to share with you what it takes to create a team of A-Players that have the passion and enthusiasm to inspire the next generation. Let’s face it, we all want more passionate and committed team members, and there is no one better to show you exactly how to do that.

Nick Williams

How To Market And STAND OUT In A Sea Of Competition... So Your Business Gets NOTICED!

Do you ever feel like you have the most AMAZING childcare business that people would LOVE…if you could only get in front of your customers, so they could see you and know you exist?

Every day, there are HUNDREDS (probably thousands) of businesses advertising to your customer…and they’re all fighting for their attention. So how do you do it? How do you get them to STOP what they’re doing, and pay attention to YOU?

Nick will share with you proven strategies to help you stand out in a giant sea of competitors, so that you’re not only SEEN, but you become the one that they want to do business with.

The World’s #1 Event EMCEE…

Devon Brown

Devon is a professional "EDUTAINER" (Educator + Entertainer).

He’s been a LIVE event emcee and a successful internet entrepreneur since 2007. He’s also a student of personal growth, and even used to be in a hip-hop dance crew.

Get ready for Devon to guide you for 2 days as you uncover the layers of Childcare Business Growth potential hiding within you…

…and transform this event into a HIGH-ENERGY 2-Day EXPERIENCE!

DAY BY DAY BREAKDOWN

Let me show you what you'll be experiencing at this year's Child Care Business Growth LIVE!

Day 1 : Staffing & Scaling Your Business

Friday, July 8th

The Event officially begins! Doors Open at 8:30am!

How to attract, retain a team of A-Players and SCALE your business by doing less...

Day 1: One on One Coaching

Friday Evening Workshop

Roadmap to your Why...One of the most important aspects of building a childcare business is having a clear VISION.

Brian & Carol Duprey will give you the Secrets to Becoming a Child Care Multi-Millionaire, by having a warrior mindset in order to dominate your market and

the power of diversification to create generational wealth.

Sustaining a culture of Excellence...Chanie will be sharing her 'Connection Bridge method', the 6 meta skills that construct intelligence, self awareness and discernment needed of staff to build a school of excellence.

Beth Cannon - "Daring to be Self Aware"...You'll leave with a clear direction, a confident communication strategy, and a commitment to know yourself and your team better.

What gets measured gets improved - Cris Rodriguez has mastered her Time Management skills to enable her to run multiple businesses (without always being in the day to day). Plus she enjoys family time, knowing her businesses can run without her too! Something we all strive for, right?

Roadmap to your Why...One of the most important aspects of building a childcare business is having a clear VISION.

Brian & Carol Duprey will how you the Secrets to Becoming a Child Care Multi-Millionaire, by having a warrior mindset in order to dominate your market and

the power of diversification to create generational wealth.

Sustaining a culture of Excellence...Chanie will be sharing her 'Connection Bridge method', the 6 meta skills that construct intelligence, self awareness and discernment needed of staff to build a school of excellence.

Beth Cannon - "Daring to be Self Aware"...You'll leave with a clear direction, a confident communication strategy, and a commitment to know yourself and your team better.

What gets measured gets improved - Cris Rodriguez has mastered her Time Management skills to enable her run multiple businesses (without always being in the day to day). She enjoys family time, knowing her businesses can run without her too! Something we all strive for, right?

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

If you know anything about the Ron Clark School, you know you'll be in for a treat with this session. Junior Bernadin is going to share with you what it takes to create a team of A-players that have the passion and enthusiasm to inspire the next generation.

Brian & Carol Duprey

The Childcare Millionaire Mission to Master Mindset

Secrets to Becoming a Child Care Multi-Millionaire with Brian and Carol Duprey:

Brian and Carol Duprey have opened and operated ten successful child care centers in central Maine. Brian and Carol are both U.S. Navy Veterans, Certified Child Care Coaches, Motivational Speakers, and are hosts of the Child Care Millionaire Podcast.

In this session you will learn:

Secrets Brian and Carol have used to create a multi-million dollar child care business.

How to have a warrior mindset in order to dominate your market.

The power of diversification to create generational wealth.

How to work with a spouse or business partner without killing each other.

How to shift your child care mindset to accomplish any goal you set.

Chanie Wilschanski

Sustaining a culture of Excellence

Chanie Wilschanski, Host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast, is an Early Childhood Leadership Coach, CEO, and Founder of Schools of Excellence. Chanie has worked with hundreds of EC Directors and School Owners who are working to build a School of Excellence with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, and collaborative culture.

In 2015, she started training teachers and school leaders on the HOW part of creating excellence in their schools.

Now a wife and mother of 4, her hands are full and she understands what it takes to lead a large center and have a full-time job at home, and it breaks her heart when she sees so many dedicated school leaders sacrificing all of their time with their family and all of their self-care (what self-care?) to a school that feels like it’s constantly getting away from them.

Chanie will be sharing her 'Connection Bridge method', the 6 meta skills that construct intelligence, self awareness and discernment needed of staff to build a school of excellence. When these skills are taught, mentored, and coached, they create a ripple effect to the children, families, and school culture.

Cris Rodriguez

What gets measured gets improved

Cris Rodriguez is an incredibly successful multi business owner and entrepreneur. With her Martial Arts schools for children across three locations in Tampa, Florida, her real estate business, a consulting agency and a marketing agency helping other sports and fitness facilities for children, she has mastered her Time Management skills to enable her to not only run multiple businesses but build them up so much so she doesn’t have to be involved in all of the day to day and can take a step back to enjoy family time, knowing her businesses can run without her too! Something we all strive for, right?

Cris lives in Tampa, Florida with her wife, Stephanie and their three sons Darion, Nate, & Cruz, the driving force behind her focus on time management, efficiency and productivity! In Cris’ words “there is no worldly success that can compensate for failure in the home” and with the desire to be a present parent and wife she had to nail the processes to master it all - she is going to share with you how she did it! "

Beth Cannon

Dare to be Self Aware

Beth Cannon is an international speaker, educator, and entrepreneur known for her passion for engaging leaders and inspiring teams. With a heart to serve early educators through business and leadership strategy and team-building, Beth serves as a keynote speaker, conference presenter, digital course creator, coach, and consultant. She’s also the creator of The Leader’s Lounge – an online platform for early education professional development. You can find her chatting it up on multiple industry podcasts, webinars, and the mix of social platforms.

Seeing yourself clearly allows you to lead with empathy and authentically connect to your team. To lead in this season, leaders need a common language for articulating our highs and lows to simplify team communication, give and receive feedback, and approach conflicts with collaboration as the end goal. The Enneagram - a personality assessment tool that describes nine different ways people think, feel, and behave - gives us this language and a clear path toward leading with understanding. In this energetic and engaging session, Beth Cannon will give you tools to understand your core motivations and hesitations and how to use the Enneagram to support your team in becoming more self-aware and emotionally intelligent. You'll leave with a clear direction, a confident communication strategy, and a commitment to know yourself and your team better.

Nick Williams

How To Market And STAND OUT In A Sea Of Competition... So Your Business Gets NOTICED!

Do you ever feel like you have the most AMAZING childcare business that people would LOVE…if you could only get in front of your customers, so they could see you and know you exist?

Every day, there are HUNDREDS (probably thousands) of businesses advertising to your customer…and they’re all fighting for their attention.

So how do you do it? How do you get them to STOP what they’re doing, and pay attention to YOU?

Nick will share with you proven strategies to help you stand out in a giant sea of competitors, so that you’re not only SEEN, but you become the one that they want to do business with.

TOP Child Care Business Experts Are Ready To SIT DOWN With You, Answer Your Questions, And HELP You Grow…

Not only will you have the opportunity to listed and learn from amazing speakers, you'll also get the opportunity to sit down with industry experts to get your questions answered one on one. We've assembled an amazing panel of experts, covering everything from start up, growth, funding and business credit, team retention, marketing and so MUCH MORE!

This is your chance to ask any burning questions you may have, or even just listen to others (and pick up some great advice and strategies from conversations), and soak in all their VALUABLE knowledge they’ve picked up from navigating the child care business world themselves.

Not only will you have the opportunity to listed and learn from amazing speakers, you'll also get the opportunity to sit down with industry experts to get your questions answered one on one. We've assembled an amazing panel of experts, covering everything from start up, growth, funding and business credit, team retention, marketing and so MUCH MORE!

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Saturday, July 9th

8:00 - 8:30am - Question and Answer Session

This is your opportunity to ask Nick and the CBG any questions that you have from the previous day.

8:30am - Doors Open

Doors will open to the main hall to all attendees.

9:00am - 12:15pm: Morning Session

12:15pm - 1:45pm LUNCH BREAK

1:45pm - 5:30pm: Afternoon Session

Nick Williams

How To Market And STAND OUT In A Sea Of Competition... So Your Business Gets NOTICED!

Do you ever feel like you have the most AMAZING childcare business that people would LOVE…if you could only get in front of your customers! How do you get them to STOP what they’re doing, and pay attention to YOU?

Nick will share with you proven strategies to help you stand out in a giant sea of competitors so that you’re not only SEEN, but you become the one that they want to do business with, even if you don't have a big marketing budget or any marketing experience.

Andrew Lock

Building a Better Business - The Walt Disney Way

Andrew Lock is an entrepreneur with a number of businesses. He's written 10 books, including the best-selling book on how to build a better business using the magical marketing strategies of Walt Disney.

Disney employs over 77,000 people just in their parks in Orlando, so how do they get every one of their team to act and behave the same way? Andrew is going to share exactly how they do it, along with some of the most impactful Disney strategies and how you can apply them directly within your business.

Summer Picha

Summer Picha is an early childhood development and leadership expert who helps early childhood programs, schools, and facilities become the best-in-class choice for their clients and be an integrated part of raising good humans.

Summer is the creator of the Conscious Classroom Certification Model and in this session is going to share with you the framework that helps owners and administrators retain staff, recruit families, reduce risk, and protect school revenue while running a fast-paced facility in ever-changing times.

Jessica Johnsen

Overcome the Growing Pains with Communication & Commitment

Jessica has an extensive background in the Early Education industry. Jessica joined Yellow Brick Road in 2019 when the company was facing some financial and cultural trouble. Jessica and her leadership team turned the culture of YBR around - while navigating a global pandemic.

In this session, Jessica will be sharing with you exactly how she has grown the business to 14 locations, how they do things 'differently', and how they attract and retain A-players.

Kathe Pitchel

What You Need To Know If You're Buying Or Selling

Kathe Petchel has worked in early childhood education since 1980. A graduate of Penn State University, Kathe earned her B.S. in Elementary Education with an early childhood emphasis. After teaching kindergarten and first grade in public schools, she opened her first child care center in 1984. She currently owns three locations serving more than 450 families in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In 2017, Kathe joined the team at HINGE Advisors and is this presentation she'll share exactly what's happening in the industry right now for buyers and sellers, so if you're thinking of buying or selling sometime in the future, this is a presentation you won't want to miss.

Nick Williams

Positioning Yourself Above The Rest

Competition is something you will face in any industry, which is why you need to know exactly what makes YOU different. Why should a parent or family choose you? What makes you the best option?

Nick will be sharing with you all the strategies that will completely separate you from your competition and how you can guarantee that your tour will always be the one parents remember and recommend to their friends and family.

**SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION**

DEBORAH TILLMAN

Leave our children a Legacy of Love

Deborah will not only be sharing with you exactly what set her apart from her competition (and put her on the Global stage) but how you can get your team feeling committed, driven, and motivated to help excel your child care business to a whole other level.

Deborah Tillman is a powerful force for good whose leadership in early childhood education spans almost three decades. Deborah’s unique approach to childcare garnered her national attention. In 2011, she was cast as America’s Supernanny enabling her to bring her unique style of purposed parenting to a global audience.

Deborah will not only be sharing with you exactly what set her apart from her competition (and put her on the Global stage) but how you can get your team feeling committed, driven, and motivated to help excel your child care business to a whole other level.

5:30pm Event Close

We'll aim to finish the event at 5:30pm, but the CBG Team will be on hand to still answer any questions that you have.

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Day 2: how To Stand Out & Get Full With a Waiting list, Saturday, July 9th

How to stand out from the competition and get your business full with a long wait list...

Another day with an AMAZING speaker line up... (check out their pictures above)

Word of mouth isn't what it used to be, and digital marketing is constantly changing, giving the large corporate chains a BIG advantage with their HUGE budgets and big marketing teams.

Positioning yourself above the rest - Competition is something you will face in any industry. Child Care is no different. As a marketing expert, Nick will be able to guide you through not only how to discover your 'USP's' but how you can advertise them, market them and make sure you are the only option to a family in your area.

Andrew Lock will lead the way in Building a Better Business - The Walt Disney Way...In this session, Andrew is going to share Disney employs over 77,000 people just in their parks in Orlando and how they do it, along with some of the most impactful strategies of Walt Disney and how you can take them away to apply directly within your business.

How to stand out from the competition and get your business full with a long wait list...

Another day with an AMAZING speaker line up... (check out their pictures above)

Word of mouth isn't what it used to be, and digital marketing is constantly changing, giving the large corporate chains a BIG advantage with their HUGE budgets and big marketing teams.

Day two is all about showing you that you DON'T NEED BIG budgets or a degree in marketing to get your business full. We're going to give you all the strategies that you need to STAND OUT from the competition and the BIG corporate chains, and show you exactly what it takes to get your business full and build a wait list.

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS from Deborah Tillman

ALSO On Day #2, Deborah Tillman will be handing out awards during our...

Child Care Business Growth Awards Ceremony!

What exactly is this awards ceremony all about?

Well, last year as we prepared for our first LIVE event, we noticed something powerful and SPECIAL happening inside our Child Care Business Growth community…

Many child care professionals were creating momentum, and reaching incredible MILESTONES in their businesses…

And we think that is worth

recognizing and CELEBRATING!

We wanted everyone who reached these important milestones to have a meaningful keepsake to display and remind them of their achievement, along with a special moment where they are recognized and honored at our LIVE event!

So we created the Child Care Business Growth Awards Ceremony, and created a handful of awards for business owners to recognize 6 different areas of achievement…

The ‘5-Star’ Award

...given to business owners for maintaining their 5-star Google rating.

The ‘Wait List’ Award

...given to child care businesses that are at FULL capacity, with a waiting list.

The ‘$250K’ Award

...given to those who generate $250K inside their child care business.

The ‘$500K’ Award

...given to those who generate $500K inside their child care business.

The ‘$1M’ Award

...given to those who generate $1 Million or more inside their child care business.

Day 2: Attract and Convert, Continued

Exclusive Book Launch LIVE At The Event!

As Part Of This 2 Day Event - You Will Be The Very First To Get Your Hands On A Copy Of Our NEW & EXCLUSIVE Book. Covering The 9 Pillars Of A Successful Child Care Business With Chapters From 20 Industry Experts - This Will Change Your Business Entirely!

Can't Attend Live?

We understand that everyone has commitments, so you may not be able to attend the event live. Don't worry...we've got you covered. The event is also being hosted virtually, so you can watch from the comfort and convenience of your own home, or go back and watch the recordings when you've got some time.

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hear From Our Speakers

Summer Picha

Brian & Carol Duprey

Beth Cannon

Devon Brown

Cris Rodrigues

Bring your team and spread the cost

with our new payment plan

We understand that financially paying for several team members can be taxing, so we have put together a 3 month payment plan to make it easier for you to bring along those key players within your business.