Strategic consulting for early education organizations building what comes next.
Operations, leadership, and growth advisory for founders, executives, and multi-site operators of childcare, early education, and non-profit organizations.
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Twenty years of leadership across early education, retail, and non-profit organizations. Doctoral candidate, Organizational Leadership · MBA, Summa Cum Laude · Based in New York · Serving operators nationwide.
You built a great organization. Now you have to build the business behind it.
The business depends on you. The systems that hold it together live in your head. Growth is exposing what was always going to be exposed.
Turnover is eroding your culture, your enrollment, and your margins. Your directors are doing their best — and you are doing theirs.
You're opening another location, considering franchise, or eyeing exit — and the gap between where you are and where the next chapter requires you to be is widening.
Most early education founders didn't sign up to be systems architects. The business you're now trying to build requires exactly that. Fields Consulting was built for this moment.
Three outcomes. One architecture.
01
Operational Clarity
Documented systems. Reliable processes. A business that runs the same on the day you arrive and the day you don’t.
02
Leadership Depth
A management bench that can lead, decide, and hold the line — without you in every meeting.
03
Structured Scale
Infrastructure that holds at one location, two locations, ten — without compounding the chaos.
How organizations work with Fields Consulting.
Strategic Consulting
Project-based and retained engagements for founders and executive teams navigating growth, expansion, restructuring, or transformation.
Leadership Development & Training
Custom programs that build directors, managers, and executive teams ready to lead through complexity.
Executive Coaching
Confidential one-on-one advisory for CEOs, founders, and executive directors. Customized cadence.
Keynote & Speaking
Industry talks rooted in two decades of operational work — financial health, staff management, growth strategy, and cultural dynamics.
Three ways to begin.
01
Discovery Call
A 30-minute conversation about your organization, your challenges, and whether Fields Consulting is the right fit. Complimentary.
Schedule the call →02
Strategy Session
A 90-minute paid working session focused on a specific decision, transition, or operational question. Pre-call intake. Written follow-up.
Book a session →03
Operational Diagnostic
A two-week structured assessment of your operations. Stakeholder interviews, document review, and a written diagnostic report with prioritized recommendations.
Request the diagnostic →Photography
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Laura Fields is the founder of Fields Consulting and a senior operations and leadership executive with twenty-plus years of experience inside growing education organizations. She has scaled early education startups to national footprints, redesigned operational systems for multi-state organizations, and built leadership programs that survive turnover, growth, and time.
She holds an MBA in Organizational Leadership (Summa Cum Laude) and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration. Her work is grounded, professional, and built for operators who are ready to do the real version of growth.
Read Laura's full story →Built in the field, not on a whiteboard.
7 STATES
Led the operational integration of educational institutions across seven states as Vice President of Integrations and Policy.
Millions in Revenue
Scaled startup early education organizations to national footprint with significant revenue and EBITDA growth.
20+ Years
Of frontline-to-executive leadership across early education, retail, and non-profit organizations — every level, every layer, every conversation.
Specific engagement outcomes available on request during the discovery process.
Fields Consulting is built for:
- Early education founders scaling beyond a single location
- Multi-site operators preparing for the next expansion
- Executive directors and CEOs who need operational structure
- Non-profit leaders driving organizational transformation
- Boards working through executive transition or strategic redesign
- Compliance-driven businesses entering new growth chapters
If you read that list and recognized your organization — that's not a coincidence.
A repeatable process. Tailored every time.
Step 01
Assess
Every engagement begins with a structured assessment of where the gaps actually are — operationally, organizationally, and financially. No guessing. No generic playbooks.
Step 02
Design
A custom architecture is built for your organization: systems, training infrastructure, leadership pipeline, and the documentation that holds it all together.
Step 03
Implement
Hands-on engagement through execution. We build alongside your team — not from a slide deck.
If your organization has outgrown how it's currently being run —
Fields Consulting is currently accepting a limited number of new engagements.