My mother has an associate degree from a community college in early childhood psychology, and was a kindergarten teacher for a couple decades. Eventually it got

My mother has an associate degree from a community college in early childhood psychology, and was a kindergarten teacher for a couple decades. Eventually it got physically tiring, so she left to take a grunt-level desk job at our local ISP. She immediately rocketed up the corporate ladder. Even as a middle-aged woman with zero relevant experience and no bachelor's degree, she was put in charge of ~100 people within a few short years. She said the same thing as you: many of her learnings about how to manage a classroom of young children also happened to apply to managing a team of full-grown adults. (She was also killer at speaking in front a group because she'd been doing it for decades in the front of a classroom.)