VACEOs Presents McCabe Award to JJ White
The Virginia Council of CEOs (VACEOs), a non-profit association serving more than 200 small and mid-sized business owners and CEOs through peer roundtables and exclusive learning events, presented the Charles E. McCabe Leadership Award to JJ White on May 1, 2025 at the annual VACEOs Spring Retreat held at Kingsmill Resort.
The McCabe Leadership Award, presented by the VACEOs Board of Directors, recognizes members who make significant, long-term leadership contributions to the association. Chuck McCabe, Founding Chairman of the Council, was fittingly named as the first recipient of the award in 2017.
JJ White joined VACEOs in 2010. At the time, he was growing his Dale Carnegie franchise into one of the most successful in the nation.
It didn’t take long for JJ to get involved in leadership. In 2016, he chaired the Membership Committee and led the very first “One Great CEO” campaign. Some may recall that the initial One Great CEO message featured a realistic photo of the One Great CEO logo being tattooed on a man’s arm. The headline read, “You don’t have to get the tattoo, like JJ did …”. JJ went on to grow that campaign – and VACEOs – with it.
In 2017, JJ joined the VACEOs Board of Directors. He was soon elected vice-chairman and then chairman of the Board in 2019. Of course, he led his CEO Roundtable multiple times. But what everyone who knows JJ is sure of, is that he is a leader of leaders – and we are fortunate to have had him lead us.
David Ingram, the 2023 McCabe award recipient and a close friend of JJ’s, said while reading the award citation, “One of the core values of EOS is Help First. There’s no one that exemplifies that value better than JJ White.”
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