Doug and Polly White
Doug and Polly White are consultants, nationally recognized small business experts, columnists for Entrepreneur.com and partners in everything they do. Together, they have helped thousands of business owners to scale their organizations, improve their profitability and culture, and figure out how to take their business to the next level.
Their passion is teaching entrepreneurs the keys to success. They have a talent for making the complex simple and easy to implement. They have worked in countless industries including manufacturing, advertising and marketing, healthcare, construction, real estate, the trades, professional services, non-profits, social media, public relations, and financial services. While they have spoken to groups from CarMax, Genworth, Altria, The Federal Reserve Bank, and Bon Secure Hospital Systems they prefer to work with associations and organizations that support small business and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Doug and Polly own all or part of a dozen businesses, including Gather, Richmond's premier coworking spaces that provide more than 250 small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs a community in which to grow. Recently, they have expanded their business endeavors into real estate development and currently own, with partners, several residential, commercial and mixed-use building in Richmond.
In addition to their speaking engagements, Doug and Polly share their knowledge in the weekly columns they write for the Richmond Times-Dispatch/Richmond.com and Entrepreneur.com. They have also written for CFO Magazine, the Huffington Post, Fox Business News, CNN Money and many others.
Together they have also written two books. Let Go to Grow: Why Some Businesses Thrive and Others Fail to Reach Their Potential was named best business book of 2011 by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), and Guaranteed Access: How to Get Clients without Selling was published in 2015.
Their blog on DougandPolly.com finds itself listed as a top small business blog by numerous organizations. In 2016, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism named Doug and Polly a Top 10 Small Business Resource for Journalists. Later that same year, Dun & Bradstreet featured them in an interview for Small Business Saturday. This year, in celebration of small business week, Doug and Polly were part of an elite group of writers for Entrepreneur and LinkedIn developing a series of articles entitled Masters of Scale.
Doug and Polly White are consultants, nationally recognized small business experts, columnists for Entrepreneur.com and partners in everything they do. Together, they have helped thousands of business owners to scale their organizations, improve their profitability and culture, and figure out how to take their business to the next level.
Their passion is teaching entrepreneurs the keys to success. They have a talent for making the complex simple and easy to implement. They have worked in countless industries including manufacturing, advertising and marketing, healthcare, construction, real estate, the trades, professional services, non-profits, social media, public relations, and financial services. While they have spoken to groups from CarMax, Genworth, Altria, The Federal Reserve Bank, and Bon Secure Hospital Systems they prefer to work with associations and organizations that support small business and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Doug and Polly own all or part of a dozen businesses, including Gather, Richmond's premier coworking spaces that provide more than 250 small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs a community in which to grow. Recently, they have expanded their business endeavors into real estate development and currently own, with partners, several residential, commercial and mixed-use building in Richmond.
In addition to their speaking engagements, Doug and Polly share their knowledge in the weekly columns they write for the Richmond Times-Dispatch/Richmond.com and Entrepreneur.com. They have also written for CFO Magazine, the Huffington Post, Fox Business News, CNN Money and many others.
Together they have also written two books. Let Go to Grow: Why Some Businesses Thrive and Others Fail to Reach Their Potential was named best business book of 2011 by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), and Guaranteed Access: How to Get Clients without Selling was published in 2015.
Their blog on DougandPolly.com finds itself listed as a top small business blog by numerous organizations. In 2016, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism named Doug and Polly a Top 10 Small Business Resource for Journalists. Later that same year, Dun & Bradstreet featured them in an interview for Small Business Saturday. This year, in celebration of small business week, Doug and Polly were part of an elite group of writers for Entrepreneur and LinkedIn developing a series of articles entitled Masters of Scale.
Let Go to Grow – Why Some Businesses Thrive and Others Fail to Reach their Potential
Based on their award-winning book, Doug and Polly White take their audience on a journey, exploring how the role of the owner must change as a business grows from a one-person start-up to a multimillion-dollar enterprise. This speech has been the turning point for countless small business owners who experienced the "Ah Ha" moment - realizing what they must do to succeed and take their business to the next level! Many speakers focus on how to start a business, how to grow sales, or how to...
The Three Essentials to Scale Your Business
Summary: Most small organizations want to grow, but few succeed in scaling. The challenges can seem overwhelming. Think about it. The needs of a business with $500,000 in revenue and four employees are very different from those of a business with $10 million or $100 million in revenue and hundreds of employees. Regardless of the industry, all businesses will encounter most of the same trials as they transition from a micro business to a small business to one that is must larger. In...
