Douglas J. Beck is a nationally recognized speaker, entrepreneur, and business growth strategist. After nearly a decade leading technology and
procurement teams at Johnson & Johnson, Douglas made the leap to entrepreneurship and built JDL Ventures into a national real estate investment
and advisory firm. He has completed hundreds of transactions and facilitated over $120M in private lending deals. Douglas is the author of Scale with
Purpose: The Service Entrepreneur's Guide to Intentional Growth, which provides a data-driven framework for scaling service businesses beyond the
common 8–12 employee bottleneck. Through The Growth Collective, he coaches entrepreneurs and investors across the country on deal-making,
capital strategy, and sustainable growth.