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 company, with offices in Kansas City, Missouri U.S.A. and Doha, Qatar in the Middle East, has worked for over 370 clients in North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.  Projects the company has produced have won many first place awards. Randy personally oversees the work on all the company’s projects and is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on feasibility, brand development, design and production of family and children’s entertainment, eatertainment, edutainment 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 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 90 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
  • Journal of Leisure Property
  • Intercross - Japan
  • Vending Times
  • The Informal Learning Review
• Childhood Education and Play
  • Early Childhood News
  • Sproutage
  • Intercross - Japan
  • The Child's Right to Play: A Global Approach (article) - book in publication by IPA (International Play Association)
  • PlayRights - IPA (International Play Association)
  • IPA/USA Newsletter - American Association for the Child's Right to Play (IPA/USA)

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

www.whitehutchinson.com/leisure/articles/index.shtml

and

www.whitehutchinson.com/children/articles/

Randy also authors White Hutchinson’s bi-monthly Leisure eNewsletter.

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 NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), IAAPA (International Association for Amusements, Attractions and Parks), 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), Kansas Recreation & Parks Association (KRPA) and TiLE (Trends in Leisure Entertainment).  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 and is presently a co-Regent and presenter at Foundations Entertainment University.

Randy is a also an active partner of Eatertainment Venues 4.0.