Experienced Leader, Educator and Business Owner
Kia ora, ko Leisa Rossi tōku ingoa.
Running an early childhood service is complex. You are balancing compliance, staff capability, documentation, parent expectations and business performance — often all at once.
One of the biggest challenges is ensuring your team clearly understands what’s expected of them, and that systems are consistent across your service, or services.
That’s where ECE Insights comes in.
With a background in senior learning and development roles in some of New Zealand’s largest organisations, alongside hands-on experience owning and operating a successful childcare centre, I understand both structured systems and the realities of daily ECE life.
I have led large-scale systems training, compliance programmes, leadership development and technical upskilling across complex organisations. I later applied those structured approaches in my own centre — where, like many smaller services, I had solid processes in place but limited time to fully develop systemised training and compliance frameworks.
ECE Insights exists to help centre owners and managers:
• Standardise compliance and documentation
• Systemise induction and staff training
• Make delegation easy
• Build capable, confident teams
When you have clear training and systems your team knows what they need to do. When your team knows their role, you are free to lead.
For new centres, setting up strong systems from the beginning makes all the difference.
If you work with ECE Insights early, we can ensure your compliance framework, induction processes and staff training systems are structured correctly from day one — giving you clarity, confidence and consistency as you grow.
ECE Insights provides practical, ready-to-use tools and structured learning modules designed specifically for New Zealand early childhood services.
Our procedures, tools and training modules simplify complex requirements and make expectations clear for kaiako.
The result? Clear expectations. Delegated responsibility. Consistent practice.
Leisa Rossi | Founder
ECE Insights Consulting
Mob: 021 745 611
B.A. Grad Dip Teaching. PG Dip Business. Grad Dip ECE.