Doric (MBA, PhD) has 30 years experience working as an executive for large corporations, creating small companies, and launching new service concepts. He holds a PhD in Public Affairs, with a focus on Urban Planning from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he lectures on Economics of health care. He currently working in economic development and Place-building, focusing on entrepreneurship, through the creating of an incubator for entrepreneurs in the Fair Park Area of Dallas (The District).

Working as a strategic planner and economic developer with Forward Planning, he helps clients: individuals, corporations, and municipalities, maximize their innate strengths as well as develop and achieve long and short term goals. He works with Dallas Admissions Consulting as a PhD and Graduate School Adviser and works with clients to create Personal Strategic Plans, focusing on and aligning skills and goals of education and commerce.

Forward Planning’s CEO, DR. Earle also collaborates on the eradication of poverty through the application of technology, with SMU Hunt Institute where he is a Data Fellow. Additionally, Forward Planning through its collaboration with Zip Code Connection, Frazier Revitalization, Get Healthy Dallas, Grow North Texas, Poitiere Farms, Wise Catering and Restorative Farms has created a food and agriculture financial and business planning practice. This practice includes but is not limited to:

• Ideation - business outcomes, visioning

• Arg-business Canvas - an adaption of the popular Business Model Canvas

• Customer & Go To Market - market analysis & customer attraction planning

• Operational Planning - how to sustain your agri- or food business

• Scaling & implementation mentoring