About Us
About Us
About Us
Who We Serve
Who We Serve
Who We Serve
Alumni Academy
Alumni Academy
Alumni Academy
Impact Reports
Impact Reports
Impact Reports
Mission
We recognize the fundamental impact early learning has on the health & well being of our community.
The Business & Leadership Institute for Early Learning (BLI) is committed to building a platform where private and public business leaders, public policy decision makers, and early learning childcare center and home based business owners, operators and educators gather and explore the business of the childcare industry and its ability to provide quality early learning given the current industry climate, the struggle for profitability within socio-economic realities and the independent center and home based owners’ business acumen.
Vision
The Business & Leadership Institute for Early Learning (BLI) Builds a network of individuals from various professional business sectors in an effort to combine the best business minds and best business practices to find innovative early learning industry specific solutions to current and future environments.
BLI empowers the small business owner through on-going mentoring, resources, and accredited business/leadership related educational training sessions facilitated by leading subject matter experts.
Purpose
We aim for every child to have every opportunity.
The Business & Leadership Institute for Early Learning (BLI) is committed to exploring the industry of early learning childcare center and home-based businesses. Its purpose is to determine the business owner’s capacity to deliver quality education and care, given their business acumen and current industry circumstances, and help them work towards a sustainable business with increased revenues. We look to empower business professionals who will build healthy sustainable businesses and engage the greater business community as equals.
Charter
Business Leadership Institute for Early Learning Inc. (BLI) is a consortium of business owners and operators, community partners and individual advocates who come together as a community in the field of early learning childcare. We are co-creators of endless possibilities for social enterprises to operate robust vibrant businesses, setting the highest standards for performance outcomes in early learning education and care.We provide an environment where each constituency is unleashed from historical bias, prejudice and personal limitations. Our curriculum, V’locity, is a learning experience where business owners and operators problem solve from a sourceful and generative position. Where new openings for new thinking, new ideas and new possibilities show themselves.
Our Programs Below
Immerse Yourself In The Business Of
Early Learning Childcare
CEUs are offered for selected programs.
Designed for the childcare industry “V’locity Master Class is a learning experience where new openings for new thinking, new ideas and new possibilities show themselves in order to develop robust, vibrant childcare businesses.
Designed for the childcare industry ”Investing In Your Future” is an investment in yourself, your team and the future of the children and families you serve as you manifest your future forward mission and vision.
Designed for the childcare industry ”The Art of Money” using the Color Accounting Learning System will teach you how to tell the story of your business with words and numbers.
Our Story
I discovered that many childcare centers and home based businesses were not making a profit and were mostly run and completely staffed by women who earn not much more than minimum wage for an entire career. However the extent to which these small business owners were contributing financially to the early childcare and education system was astounding equaling millions of dollars annually by keeping children enrolled with uncollectible fees and undercharging for services due to the inability to establish tuitions that cover the actual cost of care or parents in their district could afford to pay.
Our Master Class Model
The BLI model is a series of industry specific master classes on business and leadership using a curriculum that is delivered by subject matter experts. At the program core we work with participants focusing on their capability to build and sustain a financially healthy enterprise for quality early learning by:
- Addressing their business' current financial state as well as future goals.
- Counseling them towards understanding their specific business challenges and opportunities.
- Assisting them in understanding and accepting what needs to be done in order to execute required change.
- Introducing them to resources, support and mentoring opportunities offered in order to effectively and efficiently make such changes.
What We Do
Business Leadership Institute for Early Learning Inc. (BLI), is a consortium of business owners and operators, community partners and individual advocates who come together as a community in the field of early learning child care. We are co-creators of endless possibilities for social enterprises to operate robust vibrant businesses, setting the highest standards for performance outcomes in early learning education and care.
Owners, Directors Administrators & Educators
early learning center or home based early learning business;
Those seeking a B.A., Masters or Graduate degree in early learning childcare.
BLI Florida Cohort
Alumni Academy
Resourcefulness is more important than resources.
As part of our efforts to create a community of early learning entrepreneurs BLI graduates are invited to participate in our Alumni program.
This series of workshops offer leadership training, continued business development and peer to peer engagement. Experts in business and executive leadership facilitate the sessions. Alumni receive CEU’s for attending each workshop.
Alumni Served
Community Partners
With our extensive network of seasoned experts, we offer dynamic alliances that propel childcare business forward.
'Our partners' serves as a valuable intermediary, connecting like-minded entrepreneurs to community resources and we thank them for their contributions.