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Your Director Shouldn't Have to Figure This Out Alone
The Director Development Cohort is a structured group experience built on the CLIF™ framework. Six sessions over 6–12 weeks. Real work, real application, real peers.
Most leadership training is a course your director takes alone, watches on her lunch break, and forgets by Thursday. This isn't that.
This is a cohort, which means your director isn't just learning the framework, she's applying it alongside other directors who are dealing with the exact same challenges. The peer community is part of the program. The accountability is part of the program. The shared language is the whole point.
What's Included
Six 90-minute virtual cohort sessions over 6–12 weeks
Two companion books: From Overwhelmed to 'I Got This' and The Leadership Blueprint included
CLIF™ framework curriculum — the same system used to credential 4,500+ directors nationwide
Facilitated by Kate Woodward Young, M.Ed., PCC and Carrie Casey
Peer cohort with directors from other multi-location childcare organizations
Post-program credentialing pathway available
Who It's For
Owners who want to develop the director running their second (or third) location
Directors who are ready for a framework, not just another training to check off
Organizations that want consistent leadership development without a full enterprise contract
"Directors we credential stay in their roles 4+ years on average.
In an industry where turnover runs 65% higher than the median U.S. occupation,
that retention number changes everything."
Stop Onboarding Directors. Start Deploying Leaders.
The Enterprise Leadership University is our entire director development system, white-labeled with your brand, built around your culture, deployed across every location in your organization.
Most multi-location childcare companies are stitching together leadership development from whatever training they can find. A course here. A workshop there. A handbook nobody reads.
The organizations that scale without chaos aren't finding better directors. They're deploying directors into a system — one framework, one language, one standard that makes any good director better from day one.
That's what we build with you.
What's Included
Full CLIF™ curriculum white-labeled with your organization's brand
Cohort design built around your specific director tier, not a generic program
Facilitation by Kate Woodward Young, M.Ed., PCC and Carrie Casey
Onboarding pathway for new directors consistent from location one to location fifty
Credentialing and ongoing development pathway for your entire administrator tier
Outcomes reporting and case study development
Who It's For
Organizations with 5+ locations ready to standardize director development
Franchise systems that need one framework that works across every location
PE-backed portfolios building leadership infrastructure at the portfolio level
Growing operators who are tired of culture starting over every time they open a new center
A 55-location franchise client used our framework to build their leadership infrastructure.
They scaled it to 127 locations — without our direct involvement.
That is what replicable leadership infrastructure looks like.
This is what we build with you.
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