The childcare industry has an operator. Her name is Marnie.
Strategy, feasibility, and operational firepower for the founders, schools, churches, developers, and community partners building the next generation of early-childhood programs.
Marnie Forestieri helps childcare entrepreneurs, school owners, churches, developers, and community organizations design, launch, and strengthen early education programs — with practical strategy, operational insight, and mission-driven leadership.
The five
doors in.
From the first feasibility study to a three-site operations turnaround — Marnie's consulting work is structured around five repeatable engagements. Pick the one closest to where you are.
Fourteen books.
One operator's library.
What founders
& operators say.
Marnie sees the unit-economics and the pedagogy in the same frame. That's vanishingly rare in this industry — and it's why we doubled enrollment without breaking the curriculum.
We brought Marnie in for a feasibility study on a faith-based program. The deck she handed our council was the single most clarifying document we've seen on this campus.
Our staffing model was bleeding us. After Marnie's operations audit we restructured three campuses in 60 days. Margin recovered. People stayed.
She told us what was true. The location was wrong. The pro-forma was wrong. We re-sited and opened at 92% enrollment. Best $40K we ever spent.
Marnie keynoted our annual conference. Operators stayed for two hours after the talk. She's the rare keynote whose tactics are as good as her stories.
Three weeks into the consulting engagement we had a real launch plan, a real budget, and a real opening date. She moved us from dreaming to doing.
She built three campuses herself. So when she gives you advice it's not theory. It's a calendar of decisions you can actually run.
A podcast for
the parent who
still has questions.
Twenty-eight episodes on parenting, early-childhood disruption, mission-driven business, and how to raise kids who can build things. Hosted by Marnie, sometimes with co-host Sarah Sprinkel.
One talk.
Nearly a million minds.
Her TEDx talk planted a seed in nearly a million minds — now she's helping operators turn that philosophy into a business model.
Press.
Twenty-three press hits, one TEDx, one PBS, three Orlando Magazine recognitions.
Let's build the
next school, program,
or portfolio together.
A first call is free. A feasibility study takes 30 days. A full launch plan takes 90. The decision is yours.