What happens when business owners stop asking only adults for advice and invite children into the boardroom?

At Kids in the Boardroom, parents and caregivers will share real, age-appropriate challenges from their companies, workplaces, organizations, or creative projects. Then the kids become the consultants.

For each featured challenge:

  • The adult business owner will have up to two minutes to explain the company, its customers, and the problem.

  • Every child in attendance will consider the challenge and write down their proposed solution.

  • Children will be invited to present their feedback directly to the business owner, with up to one minute to speak.

  • Parents and caregivers are welcome to write down their own suggestions, which will also be given to the presenting adult, but speaking time will be reserved for the children.

Every featured business owner will leave with written feedback from our entire young advisory board, plus any additional written ideas contributed by the adults in attendance.

Children may explore questions such as:

  • How could this company attract or better serve its customers?

  • What new product, service, or experience could it offer?

  • How could it explain its work more clearly?

  • What would make the business more useful, fun, fair, or memorable?

  • What might adults be overlooking?

Children will practice listening, customer-focused thinking, creative problem-solving, communication, and pitching. Families will also explore how AI can support brainstorming and expand an idea, without replacing children’s imaginations or decisions.Every child will be asked to contribute to every challenge in writing and will have an opportunity to present at least one solution aloud during the event.

The evening will begin with approximately 30 minutes of food and relaxed parent-child networking, followed by one hour in our live young-consultants boardroom.

Want to submit a business challenge?

Parents may submit a real, age-appropriate business challenge during registration. Approximately six challenges will be selected for the live workshop. Because time is limited, submitting a challenge does not guarantee that it will be featured.

You do not need to own a company to attend or submit an idea. Challenges may also come from a workplace, nonprofit, community project, side project, or fictional business concept. Please do not share confidential, private, or legally sensitive information.

Who may attend?

  • Designed for children ages 6–14

  • Every child must attend with a parent or caregiver

  • One family ticket includes one child and one accompanying adult

  • Additional-child tickets may be available for siblings

  • No entrepreneurship or AI experience is necessary

  • Attendance is limited to 20 families

  • Lite snacks and workshop materials will be provided

Bring a problem. Meet our young advisory board. Leave with possibilities you may never have considered without a child in the room.Each ticket accounts for one adult and one child.