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Keynotes, breakouts, and workshops

Book the session that ends with a plan, not a pep talk.

Mark spends his weeks inside the websites, CRMs, and follow up systems childcare centers actually run on. On stage he opens that work up, walks the room through where families are quietly slipping away, and sends everyone home with the fix.

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Signature keynotes

Three talks. One promise: something they can run Monday.

Each one is written for this industry, not adapted from generic small business content.

Keynote · 45 to 60 minutes

Full classrooms aren't luck. They're a system.

The room walks the full enrollment engine: how families find a center, what makes them inquire, and the handful of automated steps that turn a tour request into a signed enrollment instead of a missed call.

Attendees leave with

An enrollment checklist, one automation they can set up that week, and a straight answer on where their current marketing is losing families.

Breakout · 45 minutes

From empty seats to a waitlist that holds.

Why enrollment spikes around open house and then goes quiet, and how a director can run the same effort every month without adding another late night to the week.

Attendees leave with

A repeatable monthly enrollment plan, sized for a team that is already busy, instead of a once a year scramble.

Breakout · 45 minutes

They're not choosing someone else. They never found you.

Most centers aren't losing to the competitor down the road. They are invisible at the exact moment a parent opens their phone and starts looking for care.

Attendees leave with

A local visibility plan so families find the center before they start comparing prices with anyone else.

Need something else? Mark writes custom sessions around a conference theme or the specific challenge your members keep raising this year.

What the room already knows

The truth about marketing in early childhood.

Across the country, the same pattern shows up.

  • A beautiful center with a website nobody can find
  • Tour requests that sit unanswered until the family books elsewhere
  • A director doing marketing at 9pm because there is no system
  • Software the center already pays for and barely uses

One session will not fix all of it. It can show a room exactly which piece to move first, and what it costs them every month they wait.

  • Where inquiries are leaking, in plain numbers
  • The follow up they can automate this week
  • What to stop doing, because it only looks like marketing

Formats

Built to fit the slot you have.

Tell us the running order and Mark will shape the session around it.

Opening or closing keynote

Forty five to sixty minutes for the full room, with the story, the system, and the one thing to do first.

Breakout session

Forty five minutes on a single topic, sized for owners and directors who want the practical version.

Half day workshop

Hands on. Attendees bring a laptop and leave with their own follow up sequence already written.

Virtual works too. Mark speaks remotely for statewide trainings and member webinars, same structure, same takeaway.

Working with Mark

What your committee can count on.

The part that has nothing to do with the talk, and decides whether you book a speaker twice.

Two weeks out, you have everything

Slides, the attendee handout, the bio, and print ready headshots reach your programme team with time to lay them out.

He is in the building early

Mark arrives the evening before a morning slot and sits in the session before his, so the room he walks into is one he has already read.

The room leaves with a plan

Every session ends on something attendees can run on Monday, so the feedback forms come back about the work rather than the weather.

Booking 2027

Tell us the date and the room.

Mark reviews every request himself and replies within two business days.