Staff Who Stay
Why business tools need to be translated for early childhood.
Watch Kate
Ideas that stick. Stories that connect. Tools people can use Monday morning.
Kate Woodward Young brings practical insight, honest humor, and real field experience to early childhood conferences, association events, workforce gatherings, and professional development audiences. Her sessions are designed for mixed audiences across the field — educators, family child care providers, out-of-school-time professionals, assistants, directors, owners, administrators, trainers, association members, workforce partners, and program teams.
Speaker Reel
See Kate in the room.
Kate's best work happens in the room: connecting ideas, naming the real challenges, and giving audiences language they can take back to their teams, classrooms, families, and programs.
Speaker Reel
Kate in the room
In the Room
Warmth, humor, clarity, and real field experience.
Kate's sessions are designed to feel real, useful, and connected to the actual work early childhood professionals carry every day.
Keynote Energy
Red suit, full stage, full room.
Audience Connection
Eye contact, real conversation, real questions.
Practical Teaching
Slides, tools, and language people can actually use.
Personality & Presence
Warmth, humor, and honest field experience.
Books & Tools in Action
More Than Tuition on the table, ideas in the room.
From the Seat
Not the sidelines — the real work of early childhood.
What Audiences Say
Honest words from real attendees.
"Kate creates an engaging atmosphere where learning feels natural, useful, and fun."
"Kate made business fundamentals feel simple, practical, and easy to understand."
"It felt like sitting around chatting and brainstorming with a friend, while still learning something useful."
"The session was filled with knowledge, laughter, and new learning."
"Very informative and interactive. Kate answered questions and made it a great training."
"An informative guide to managing and dealing with problems put onto you by other people."
Conference & Organization Highlights
Trusted by early childhood audiences.
Association for Early Learning Leaders
National Child Care Association
Texas Workforce Commission
Early Childhood Empowerment Conference
Born to Teach Conference
CTAEYC
FLAEYC
State Child Care Associations
Workforce Boards
Childcare Conversations
Popular Clips
Short ideas. Lasting language.
Where Are My Ducks?
Sorting responsibility, reducing overwhelm, releasing what is not yours to carry.
What Kate Brings to the Room
Direct. Practical. Human.
Practical Language
Audiences leave with words they can use in real conversations.
Field-Tested Perspective
Kate speaks from experience across classrooms, programs, associations, business, curriculum, and training.
Memorable Frameworks
Ideas like “Children Are Not Widgets” and “Where Are My Ducks?” give people language that sticks.
Respect for the Work
Kate challenges the room without minimizing the people doing the work.
Bring Kate to your next event.
Looking for a keynote or workshop that feels practical, memorable, and grounded in the real work of early childhood?