Randy White

Chief Executive Officer White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group

Randy White is CEO and co-founder of the White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group. The 22-year-old company, with offices in Kansas City, Missouri U.S.A. and Doha, Qatar in the Middle East, has worked for over 480 clients in 23 countries in North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Projects the company has produced have won sixteen 1st place awards. Randy personally oversees the work on all the company’s leisure projects and is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on feasibility, brand development, design and production of entertainment, eatertainment, edutainment, informal learning and leisure facilities.

Randy is a graduate of New York University. Prior to repositioning the company in 1989 to work exclusively in the leisure and learning industry, White Hutchinson was active in the retail/commercial real estate industry as a real estate consultancy specializing in workouts/turnarounds of commercial projects. In the late 1960s to early 1980s, Randy managed a diversified real estate development company that developed, owned and managed over 2.0 million square feet of shopping centers and mixed-use projects and 2,000 acres of residential subdivisions. Randy holds the designation CSM (Certified Shopping Center Manager) from the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).

Randy was featured on the Food Network’s Unwrapped television show as an eatertainment expert, quoted as a children’s entertainment/edutainment center expert in the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine and received recognition for family-friendly designs by Pizza Today magazine. One of the company’s projects was featured as an example of an edutainment project in the book The Experience Economy.

Randy is very involved in industry education. He has authored over 100 articles that have been published in leading entertainment/leisure and early childhood education industry magazines and journals including:

  • Real Estate Industry
    • Urban Land - Urban Land Institute
  • Leisure & Entertainment Industry
    • Family Entertainment Center - IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions)
    • Tourist Attractions & Parks
    • FunWorld - IAAPA
    • Behind the Themes (formerly Network) - TEA (Themed Entertainment Association)
    • Play Meter
    • RePlay
    • Splash - WWA (World Water Park Association)
    • Roller Skating Business - RSA (Roller Skating Association)
    • International Bowling Industry
    • Entertainment Management (formerly LBE/FEC Management) - IALEI (International Association of the Leisure & Entertainment Industry)
    • Athletic Business
    • Leisure Arabia
    • RIM Magazine
    • MWR Today – MWR (Navy Morale, Welfare & Recreation)
    • Journal of Leisure Property
    • Intercross – Japan
    • Vending Times
    • The Informal Learning Review
    • Blooloop.com
  • Childhood Education and Play
    • Early Childhood News
    • Sproutage
    • Intercross - Japan
    • The Child's Right to Play: A Global Approach (article in book) by IPA (International Play Association)
    • PlayRights - IPA (International Play Association)
    • IPA/USA Newsletter - American Association for the Child's Right to Play (IPA/USA)
    • Taproot – The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors

Most of these articles are available on the company’s website at:

www.whitehutchinson.com/leisure/articles/

and

www.whitehutchinson.com/children/articles/

Randy also authors White Hutchinson’s bi-monthly Leisure eNewsletter , tweets on Twitter and also publishes an occasional blog.

Randy’s articles have been cited in many publications and books including Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, Building for Life, Designing and Understanding The Human-Nature Connection by Stephen R. Kellert, and A Guide to Great Field Trips by Kathleen Carroll.

Randy has been a featured speaker and presenter at regional, national and international conferences including ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), IAAPA (International Association for Amusements, Attractions and Parks), DEAL (Dubai Entertainment, Amusement & Leisure Show), FunExpo, LeisureExpo, AMOA (Amusement and Music Operators Association), AYM (American Youth Museums), Latin American Amusement Parks, Middle East Theme Parks & Fun Centres Show, NCCCC (National Coalition for Campus Child Care), Council of Educational Facilities Planners International, ARVC (National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds), IPA (International Play Association), WWA (World Water Park Association), RSA (Roller Skating Association), NAFDMA (North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association), KRPA (Kansas Recreation & Parks Association), TiLE (Trends in Leisure Entertainment) and MAiZE.He served as a Regent and taught at the Oglebay Entertainment Management Institute and was previously Education Chair for IALEI and a member of the FunExpo Seminar Committee.

His company also owns and runs Foundations Entertainment University and the Institute on Creating Sustainable Environments for Young Children. Randy is also a partner in Eatertainment Venues 4.0, a company that is developing eatertainment venues, and The Optimus Group, a company that assesses opportunities for mixed entertainment, recreation, sports and leisure venues and then assists clients with planning, development and management.

Randy can be reached at: Randy@whitehutchinson.com, +816.931-1040, ext 100