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What's the biggest challenge you're facing right now? How valuable would it be to you to have a solution that you could implement immediately? Priceless -- right?

Here are a few people who are waiting to answer your questions and discuss your challenges in our discussion forums.

Julie Bartkus

Julie Bartkus

Julie Bartkus is the founder of the Leadership Connection and Motivate Teachers. Motivate Teachers is a company dedicated to helping child care professionals create dynamic, positive, and productive environments for working and learning. Check out videos of her raving fans at http://www.MotivateTeachers.com.

For over a decade Julie has been presenting customized professional development programs for child care programs and schools, helping them build constructive communication patterns and eliminate destructive ones such as workplace gossip. Julie offers private coaching sessions as well as on-site team retreats and public leadership retreats. Her programs have been referred to as "transformational" due to her proven track record of helping people who work together function as a dynamic, positive and productive team. To read more about why Julie started the Leadership Connection click on "our story."

Julie is the author of Break the Gossip Chain and has several other publications in process of being written for the child care industry. Most importantly, Julie understands the challenges that you face when it comes to attracting, motivating and retaining great staff through the thousands of interviews she has conducted with child care professionals.

Dianne Baker

Dianne Baker

Dianne is driven to help others create an exceptional environment that enhances the productivity of others, provides for increased program marketability, and results in an educational facility for children that is "Designed 2 Grow."

Dianne's 25 years of experience in early child development and child care ranges from building numerous preschools -- literally from the ground up and bringing them to full enrollment, to being the creative director for Carson-Dellosa Publishing, and then to the development of an educational curriculum for an international child care franchise operation.

Her extensive knowledge of the industry and ability to share her experiences and passion is made evident through certified training, consulting and product development. Her ability to assess schools, inspire enthusiasm, propose a plan of action and provide the tools necessary for a total transformation is unsurpassed in the industry.

Kris Murray

Kris Murray

Meet Kris here every Monday in our discussion forum for Marketing Mondays!

Kris is the CEO / Founder of Child Care Marketing Solutions. She is the author of "The Child Care Business Success System" & "The Daycare Success System". Her websites offer articles, information, coaching, and products related to child care marketing, start-up skills, and business management. Kris is a professional speaker and has conducted numerous interviews with leading experts in the child care field. To get a copy of Kris's free audio CD, "The 5 Secrets of Maximizing the Profits of Your Child Care Business", go to http://www.childcare-marketing.com.

Kris Murray is an expert in helping small businesses grow and become profitable. She has 20 years of experience in business management, profitability analysis, and marketing. Over the past two years, Kris has focused her talents on helping people start and run successful child care businesses, either in their home or in a center. She has helped hundreds of people get started in a way that increases their chance of success, through proven cutting-edge marketing techniques & a unique approach to the child care business.

"During my first few years of being a working mother, I realized that child care business owners were in desperate need of some of the unique, proven strategies I'd witnessed in other industries. I started providing owners & directors with marketing consulting & coaching services, in order to help them boost their enrollment and improve profits. Thanks to the worldwide growth of the Internet, I'm thrilled to be able to reach out to child care professionals on a global scale, and help them achieve their goals through my books, teleseminars, products, and speaking engagements", Kris says.

Cathy Abraham

Cathy Abraham

Cathy is an early childhood consultant and author of Learning Foundations Curriculum. Learning Foundations provides a creative, comprehensive and developmentally appropriate preschool curriculum designed to build skills and facilitate optimum learning experiences, while enhancing self-concept and preparing children for future educational success. We'll be posting a link where you can purchase 60 units of curriculum that Cathy has written in the very near future.

Cathy was featured on our Collecting Tuition Conference Call which received rave reviews from our members. Check it out: http://www.leadershipconnectionforchildcare.com/public/437.cfm

Carla Snuggs

Carla Snuggs

Carla is a freelance child care and parenting writer. She is the feature Daycare writer for Suite101.com where she writes a weekly column that focuses on early childhood education. Carla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Family and Consumer Science with an emphasis in Child Development. She also holds a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree, specializing in public librarianship and youth services.

Be on the lookout for Carl's articles and publications! http://daycare.suite101.com/