Gigi Schweikert | Source | Chief Executive Officer and Parenting Expert at Lightbridge Academy
Gigi Schweikert
Gigi Schweikert, CEO of Lightbrigde Academy, has over 30+ years of experience in educational child care. Having started her career as a teacher, Gigi was inspired to create lasting change for students and made the decision to go from the classroom to the boardroom starting her career as the Director of the United Nations Child Care Centre. Gigi serves as the President of the Lightbridge Foundation, a non-profit 501-c3 providing over $500,000 in grants and scholarships to support the health, education and well-being of children and their families. In addition, Gigi’s expertise includes creating innovation to ensure the delivery of high-quality early education and care programs. Her advocacy work extends both nationally and internationally and includes serving as an advisory board member for Marco Polo World School and Seton Hall University. But most importantly, Gigi is also a mother to four beautiful children who have only strengthened her passion for educational childcare.
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Lightbridge Academy
Chief Executive Officer and Parenting Expert
started Jun 2021
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Gigi is available to share unbiased expert insight including (but not limited to):
* The current child care shortage crisis the nation is facing
* Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for sleep routines, potty training, etc.
* What parents should be looking for in early educational child care for their children.
* Why kindergarten readiness is important for children’s ongoing academic success.
* The importance of the whole child approach (physical, academic, social) to education
* Technology innovations within educational child care.Gigi is especially passionate about:
*Helping parents navigate child care waitlists
*Determining when first-time parents should begin their child care search (i.e. before or after conception)
*Pros/Cons to parenting trends like benign parenting, sharenting, inchstones, etc.
*Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for working mothers
