The Formator Institute supports families, childcare professionals, and agencies through expert Nanny Training, clear system design, advanced professional development, and strong partnerships that lead to stable, high-quality care.
The Formator Institute supports families, childcare professionals, and agencies through expert Nanny Training, clear system design, advanced professional development, and strong partnerships that lead to stable, high-quality care.
Your care team is working hard. We make sure the system is working with them, alongside your household manager and family office.
You already do the work. We give it the frameworks, the language and a credential families and agencies recognize.
Hiring well is the starting point. We are the training and consulting partner that helps the candidates you place stay placed.
The Formator Institute™ trains, assesses, and manages the childcare team inside private homes. Most households that come to us are not in crisis. They are in complexity: several caregivers, more than one property, specialists who do not talk to each other, and a child whose development depends on all of it holding together.
Our Mission
Child development compounds, or it fragments. The system determines which.
We build the systems, develop the professionals, and partner with the agencies that make consistent childcare possible. Structure does not replace love. It creates the conditions for it. No child's development is the product of one person. It is the product of a well-constructed whole.
Formator
(fôr-mā-tər)
From the Latin formare: to shape, to form, to develop.
That is what you are here to do.
Integrity.
Integration.
Intentionality.
Integrity.
Integration.
Intentionality.
“I don't leave until every person in the room has a path forward.”
Founder & Lead Consultant
Fifteen-plus years inside private homes. A doctorate, a method, and a life governed by the same principles your household requires.
The pine marten is curious by nature, adaptable across environments, and fiercely devoted to those in its care. So are we. Marti represents what The Formator Institute stands for, and what we believe childcare professionals can become.
In their own words, with permission.
The Formator Institute is the only credentialed, systems-based institution purpose-built for private household childcare. We certify nannies, assess, train and manage household care teams, and partner with nanny agencies. Dr. Ginny Schwager founded it after fifteen-plus years inside private homes.
Families with several caregivers or residences, experienced nannies and private childcare professionals, and the agencies that place them.
No. We do not place nannies. We work alongside agencies and families on training, assessment and management, and our agency partnerships are built on referral and collaboration.
Choose your path above. Families book a complimentary consultation. Nannies start the free Introduction to Certified Formator™. Agencies fill in the partner sign-up form or book a complimentary consultation.
Tell us where you are. We will take it from there.
A quiet life has suited me since childhood. Gardening, long walks with my border collie, evenings by a wood fire, a village in the Alps I return to each year because it reminds me what unhurried feels like. I carried that temperament, attuned and drawn to order, into more than fifteen years of work inside private homes. Over those years I kept seeing the same pattern. Even with devoted caregivers, when the systems around a child fracture, children lose what they need most: calm, play, and consistency. That is rarely anyone’s failure. It is a gap no one owns. The Formator Institute exists because it does not have to be that way. We work with families on behalf of the child, the parents, and the family system as a whole.
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I speak and write for the private service industry. On the Easemakers Podcast I talked through reducing turnover and building support systems in high-net-worth households, and I have presented “The Evolution of Childcare Operations in Private Homes” to the childcare professional community.
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