RICHARD WEISSMAN
CO-FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN & CEO, THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE, DEERFIELD BEACH
The Learning Experience has more than 270 franchised child-care centers nationwide and a location in the U.K. The firm employs 600 at its headquarters and operates 30 locations in Florida. Weissman is a former investment banker who also develops commercial real estate projects. He is chairman of Make-A-Wish Southern Florida.
EDUCATION
| I left college early to pursue a career.
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CIVIC EFFORT
| Staying committed to providing a valuable service to workers during the pandemic. We’re doing everything possible to make sure that parents could have child-care support so they could work — especially the frontline workers who have been so crucial throughout the pandemic.
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WORRIES ABOUT
| The safety and security of our people and the children we serve
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READING
| Think Again, by Adam Grant; Great by Choice, by Jim C. Collins
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