iKids U is America's One-Stop Out-of-School Time Shop. IKids U Franchise, LLC is now seeking ambitious, prospective business partners, who have a passion for providing high-quality children's program services to families, available in select communities and locations around the USA. With our local business owners, we partner with schools, parents, and other organizations to provide exceptional, safe, and convenient after-school care, camp, learning pod, and enrichment programs, that fulfill the educational, creative, and recreational interests of any child!Not just an enrichment service, but a well-rounded complete afterschool solution!As an essential service, we are a recession-proof business model, that is home-based, and we provide not just a full service for the families we serve, but also a complete business education to our business partners. You do not need to have a background in education to be successful with our system. We train you! Our unique selection process helps ensure our system onboards excellent people like you to make a difference in our industry, and our franchise provides the support you need to see you through to your success. Your success is our success, too! And our success is our people! If this is you, do you want to learn more?Connect with me today to set up a confidential consultation to learn how we can be a great fit for your next chapter in life. We can't wait to make a positive impact on kids in your community together!

International Programs and Products DirectorOn assignment in France, Panama, IrelandWorking with the CEO of a new Intercultural Educational Tourism Company to build a unique online marketplace to connect specialty tour operators with successful STEM businesses, as well as high school and university students and their teachers. Crosspolination's mission is to open young people up to the idea of STEM career options around the world through cultural exchange, and how diverse a career path in STEM can be for their futures.

I was tasked with assisting the directors of the company to develop a growth marketing strategy for a boutique educational psychology service business specializing in training courses for educators, in order to ready it for international and domestic expansion. Eirim's sister company, www.educationelephant.ie. I recommended and installed a new e-commerce system, overhauling the ease for customers to do business with the training firm. We then went on to build a second product-focused platform and sister company to further boost the firm's foothold in the international marketplace and to promote a new, product that was in high demand amongst the existing client base. Sales increased by 20% in the original company which helped fuel a budget to launch the 2nd company and platform. After 6 months we had sold to 100 customers and school and partner clients across several international markets, plus secured 3 distributors to serve across Ireland, the UK, the EU and EMEA. The business continues to grow and digital and offline marketing systems and messaging have been streamlined to poise the company for the growth desired.

Worked with the Executive Team to kick start then head up the continued expansion project for this fabulous software for children's activity business providers. ClassForKids is a modern classroom management and online registration system, which professionalizes the experience for children's activity providers and businesses. It is especially excellent for franchisors who need a way to get accurate data and sales reports and empower their franchisees to grow their businesses together. Already the #1 SaaS of its kind in the UK, we are now available in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. I first worked with Nikki and his team to open up the software to the Irish market and help them test and deploy the software for class providers around Ireland. We worked as partners while I was running our children's directory business, Kids Guide Ireland. After the first sales event I set up in Dublin to present to prospects, we were able to bring in just under 10 new accounts and one of their largest accounts still to date. After 2 years of steadily growing the Irish accounts, Nikki and his investment team approached me to help them research opening up in the US market. We ended up bringing on a handful of new pilot clients but most importantly discovering the places the system needed to be readied and updated in order to justify spending money to open the US office in earnest. This research expansion pilot ended up saving millions for Class4Kids by ensuring them that their product needed specific changes to be made first before launching in the US, which could have been done prematurely without this research in place.

Co-founded, built and sold Kids Guide Ireland to new team in 4 years. Kids Guide is the premiere online guide to all the best that Ireland has to offer for children's services and products. My partner and I founded Kids Guide Ireland to address a hole in the market for a clean and clear listing service for high-quality Irish educational programmes for children. We changed the way small business providers of high-quality children's services could market to their targeted audiences: parents of young children. We used an innovative multi-media approach incorporating marketing, events, and SaaS cloud-based business intelligence tools to help our partners make more sales and grow.At Kids Guide we also founded and produced 4 successful years of growth initiating with the first annual Kids Guide Summer Camp Fair in Spring 2016, and went on to hold the growing event each year in Dublin through 2019 to showcase the best summer camps and activities and services for kids around Ireland. We sold the business profitably in September 2019 to excellent new ownership and today they will carry on and expand Kids Guide and the Camp Event across additional locations all around Ireland.Visit the website today for more info and to plan some fun for your kids in Ireland!www.kidsguide.ie

culturebooster was designed as a curriculum and special crowdfunding platform for 4th-12th grade students to raise money for self-directed projects benefitting their school and community. Students designed and lead a 35-day crowdfunding campaign, while learning business fundamentals such as marketing, design, customer service, budgeting, team-building, and much more. Partnerships included Singularity University, Whole Planet Foundation, and Thrively.com among others. culturebooster served schools and instructors, who were passionate about supporting students on their path to discover and we leveraged their strengths as individuals and teams. We helped students to improve the world around them as they prepared for great careers that match their abilities and interests.Selected Achievements:• Established Partnerships with 10 schools and 6 non-profits in first year of operations to teach over 250 students and 25 adults how to run more effective fundraising efforts for school and work.• Created highly esteemed and effective, cross-curricular online fundraising program for teachers and students to complement and reinforce core subject learning in math, reading and writing. • Royito's Award Winner at the RISE conference. Awarded most innovative Start-up by GSD&M co-founder Roy Spence.

As a result of the reputation earned from my Abrakadoodle tenure, I was hired as a Franchise Business Consultant for a 10 week contract to turn an independent business, The Money Academy, and its flagship educational program for children, Moolah U, into a bonafide franchised business. The contract involved reviewing all of the company's existing business assets, to ensure it was ready to convert into a franchise, and the ideal mission the CEO tasked myself and my partner with was to ready all documents for her legal team to sign off on quickly. The goal was to put her in a position to be ready to sell the first franchise by the end of the 10 week contract. My partner and I delivered that and more.During our contract, on time and on budget, we generated:-- the required and correct FDD documents, -- an excellent Discovery Day Process to source and vet franchisee candidates,-- created a 500+ page detailed Operations Manual for franchisees and -- provided a specific and efficient 5-day Franchisee Training Outline. And, importantly, starting in week 4 to week 10 of our contract, we also simultaneously sourced a qualified candidate, then coached the CEO through the process of closing the new franchise's first franchise purchase! It was an extremely quick process and one we had to orchestrate very carefully due to legal disclosures for the franchisee etc, but the documents and processes were meticulously prepared in an effective manner. This process also saved the CEO literally 100s of hours and 1000s of dollars on legal fees. It also provided a rapid cash infusion for the new franchise through earning the first franchise fee by the end of the contract in week 10 or 11 when that money was earned.

Responsible for contributing to the Inaugural City Arts Master Plan for Cedar Park, TX with other board members and public input.

• #1 producing franchisee worldwide for 2007, 2008, 2009 in international franchise; #2 producing franchisee for 2011, 2012; and #4 producer for 2010.• Achieved profitability within the first 8 weeks of opening business and exceeded annual and quarterly revenue goals by at least 10% for 15 consecutive quarters. • Consistently achieved top 10% scores in annual independent customer satisfaction surveys of the Franchise system 6 years in a row, plus received the most Customer WOW!s.• Hired, trained, and mentored over 500 staff members. Empowered them to create and achieve relevant goals, while nurturing relationships with their contacts in the field to drive sales revenue and exceed customer service expectations.• Innovated and updated the franchisor’s original hiring and retention system to reduce high staff turn-over. Practices included adding group interviewing, peer-to-peer training, and performance reviews for each new hire’s first 90 days. Reduced turn-over in the Austin office by 100% the first season we implemented the new system, and 50% annually each year thereafter.• Profitable sale of company in 2012 to new ownership.

Handled new business and marketing for the company. Handled project management for new clients as appropriate. Responsible for introducing new accounts to our film, video and multimedia services including DVD, CD Rom, web site and web streaming/presentations for business to business customers. Customers include major global corporations, non-profits and private companies.Selected Achievements:• Generated 50% of gross revenue by 2004 through 16 new accounts for $1.5 million company by applying a full-cycle sales strategy of lead generation, cold-calling, pitching, and closing of new business contracts with Whole Foods Market, TX Guaranteed Student Loans, among others.• Overhauled the marketing plan and oversaw the redesign of the professional marketing kit.

Oversaw all sales, rentals, marketing, internal operations and budgetary details for the $3 million NYC branch office within a $25 million film and video services company headquartered in LA. Ran 24/7 customer technical support initiatives for branch. Supervised and trained 10 staff members to handle project and client services successfully for various accounts, including Citigroup, Fox News, George Eastman House, National Archives, NFL Films, MTV, A&E, Columbia Pictures. Maintained staff morale and sales numbers with existing accounts in very poor economic climate after September 11, 2001. Reorganized the A/R system and personnel to collect $600,000 in overdue billings within 6 months.

In this role I worked with a second AV Manager to pitch and win new and repeat business and oversee high profile to small meeting events happening throughout the Times Square Marriott Marquis hotel. We provided excellent and timely service to a huge range of VIP customers and groups who hired us to run and furnish tech and meeting needs throughout 45 floors of meeting rooms, 4 ballrooms and other specialty gala dinners in our additional special events spaces throughout the hotel. Guests included high profile groups and events such as the New York city mayor's regular press conferences to annual fundraising events for the NBA, benefit concerts for a variety of international charities with performers such as Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson among others. My job was to book the sale then project manage and oversee that each of my contracts ran flawlessly with regard to the technical, sound, light, and and audio-visual aspects for each client's event.