The “Building Business Champions” Training Institute uses experience-based guidance, examples, and strategies to train child development leaders and others to build other own country-based networks of business champions for child development.

The first online institute will be held May 1-June 5, 2025, and will include weekly interactive virtual sessions with experts and guest speakers. Participants will access resource materials and learn from examples of successful partnerships, as well as receive individualized support and feedback. The program will also introduce participants to a global peer-support network, fostering intentional collaboration and ongoing learning in this field.

This online training institute is hosted by the Center for Business Champions at Childhood Education International.

 Topics will include: 

• The transformative potential of partnerships: Explore how strategic collaborations can drive meaningful change in both business and child development sectors. 

• Bridging Professional Cultures: Learn techniques to harmonize the differing cultures of business and child development professionals for effective collaboration. 

• Building and Sustaining Partnerships: Acquire practical skills and strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships.

• Overcoming Common Challenges: Identify and address typical obstacles in creating and sustaining business-child development partnerships. 

The comprehensive curriculum will draw on the CBC staff’s decades of experience in building effective and lasting business-child development partnerships in multiple countries. By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to design and develop a partnership tailored to their country’s or city’s specific context and goals.  Participants will also form valuable connections and receive follow-up support for their initiatives.

The May/June 2025 institute is filled to capacity. We hope to offer additional institutes in the future. Please sign up here to express your interest in learning about and attending future institutes.

We express our appreciation to ISSA and ARNEC for their collaboration on the first training institute and to sponsors Dorene Hurt, Brandi King, and Diane Whitehead for their support.