90 Minute Webinar

The 5 Decisions Every ECE Leader Must Make to PIVOT Their Program

A free leadership webinar for early childhood owners, directors, assistant directors, and emerging leaders who are ready to move from crisis mode to clarity in action.

Running or leading an early childhood program can begin as a dream, a vision to create a place where children thrive, families feel confident, teachers feel supported, and excellence is the standard.

But for many leaders, that dream can quickly become heavy.

Staff call-outs.
Licensing pressure.
Enrollment concerns.
Teacher turnover.
Parent communication.
Classroom quality.
Operational bottlenecks.
The constant feeling that everything depends on you.

This live, interactive webinar is designed to help ECE leaders pause, look honestly at where their program may be operating in crisis mode, and begin identifying the leadership decisions that can move their program toward clarity, structure, and excellence.

No matter what season your program is in, this webinar will help you see where your leadership, systems, team, enrollment, and operations may need a stronger foundation.

You will walk away with practical insight, honest reflection, and a clearer understanding of what it takes to PIVOT your program from survival to sustainable excellence.

This webinar is for you if:

You feel like you are constantly reacting.
You are tired of carrying the program alone.
You are facing staffing, enrollment, licensing, or operational pressure.
You know your program needs stronger systems, but you are not sure where to begin.
You want to create a quality childcare program, center, team, and culture — but the daily demands keep getting in the way.
You are ready to make decisions that support the season you are in and the excellence you are building toward.

You will walk away with:

• A clearer understanding of where crisis mode may be showing up in your program
• A practical introduction to The ECE PIVOT framework
• Insight into the leadership decisions that shape your team, enrollment, operations, and program culture
• A starting point for your next leadership move
• Practical clarity you can take back to your program immediately

This webinar is for you if:

You feel like you are constantly reacting.
You are tired of carrying the program alone.
You want to lead with more clarity and less exhaustion.
You know your program needs stronger systems, but you are not sure where to begin.
You are ready to make decisions that support the season you are in and the season you are building toward.

You will walk away with:

• A clearer understanding of where crisis mode may be showing up in your program
• A practical introduction to The ECE PIVOT framework
• Insight into the leadership decisions that shape your team, enrollment, operations, and program culture
• A starting point for your next leadership move
• Practical clarity you can take back to your program immediately

5 Day Challenge

The Back to Excellence Challenge

Your PIVOT From Crisis Mode to Clarity in Action

The Back to Excellence Challenge is for the ECE owner, director, assistant director, or emerging leader who knows their program was meant to be more than a daily cycle of fires, fixes, and frustration.

Maybe you opened or stepped into leadership with a dream: to build a quality childcare program, create a strong team, serve families well, and lead a center where excellence is visible every day.

But now the pressure is real.

Call-outs keep disrupting the day.
Licensing regulations feel heavy.
Enrollment is not where it needs to be.
Staffing feels unstable.
Families need more communication.
Classrooms need more consistency.
The business has bottlenecks.
And the dream you had can start to feel like a burden you are carrying alone.

The Back to Excellence Challenge helps you pause, assess where your program is operating in crisis mode, identify the bottlenecks that are keeping you stuck, and begin building a practical action plan toward excellence.

This is not about pretending the pressure is not there.

It is about learning how to lead through it with more clarity, structure, systems, and support.

In this challenge, you will begin building:

• A clearer leadership direction
• An enrollment and retention reset
• A staffing and onboarding strategy
• An environment and safety focus
• A practical action plan for the season you are in
• A sustainability commitment for the leader behind the program

This is your PIVOT if:

You are tired of reacting.
You feel like your program has bottlenecks you cannot keep ignoring.
You want to create a quality childcare business, center, team, and culture.
You need a clear plan.
You want practical tools, not just encouragement.
You are ready to stop carrying the pressure alone and start building toward excellence.

Year-Long Program

The ECE PIVOT™ Academy

Ongoing Support to Build, Implement, and Sustain Excellence

The Academy is for early childhood leaders who are ready to move beyond survival mode and create lasting excellence in their programs.

Whether you have joined the webinar, challenge, or live event or you are simply ready for deeper support. The Academy gives you ongoing coaching, tools, templates, resources, and accountability to turn clarity into results.

This is where leaders stop trying to build excellence alone.

The Academy Is for You If:

You are feeling the bottlenecks in your business, team, operations, or leadership.
You are tired of leading from reaction and want to build with intention.
You want practical systems you can implement inside your program.
You need support staying focused on what matters most each month.
You want coaching, tools, resources, and accountability as you build.
You are ready to create excellence that can be sustained beyond one moment, one season, or one leader.

Inside the Academy, You Receive:

Monthly Live Group Coaching With DeEtte

Each month, Academy members join a live group coaching call with DeEtte M. Thomas.

These calls are designed to help you pause, refocus, and identify what matters most for the month ahead. We will look at the season you are in, the pressure points showing up in your program, and the goals that need your attention right now.

The purpose of these calls is to help you clarify your monthly leadership priorities, identify bottlenecks, receive coaching around real program challenges, and stay accountable to the goals you set.

This is where we turn big-picture excellence into monthly action.

Practical Tools and Templates

Academy members receive tools, templates, checklists, scripts, and planning resources designed for real early childhood programs.

These resources help you strengthen leadership, enrollment, staffing, onboarding, compliance, classroom environments, operations, and sustainable leadership practices.

Monthly Leadership Focus

Each month inside the Academy, we focus on a specific leadership or operations priority so you are not trying to fix everything at once.

You will be guided toward what to focus on, what to strengthen, what to build, and what to carry forward into your program.

Implementation Support

The Academy is not just about learning. It is about implementation.

You will receive support to help you take what you are learning and apply it inside your program — one action, one system, one decision, and one month at a time.

Community of ECE Leaders

Academy members are part of a community of early childhood leaders who understand the weight of this work.

This is a space to connect, learn, reflect, ask questions, share wins, and remember that you are not building alone.

Exclusive Member Access

Academy members receive exclusive access to special offers, early announcements, and priority opportunities from The ECE PIVOT™.

Members will be the first to know about upcoming live events, in-person experiences, new resources, workshops, book updates, and special trainings.

Whenever The ECE PIVOT™ opens something new, Academy members will hear about it first.

The Academy Helps You:

Stop trying to fix everything at once.
Focus on the right goals for the month ahead.
Build systems that support excellence.
Strengthen your leadership rhythm.
Lead your team with clarity and accountability.
Stay supported while doing the work.
Move from crisis mode to clarity in action and continue building from there.

Your Next Season Does Not Have to Look Like Your Last One

Whether you begin with the webinar, the challenge, or the Academy, the goal is the same:

To help you PIVOT into excellence and build the systems, habits, and leadership rhythms that allow you to remain there.

Start your next PIVOT today.