About Us
Carolyn Whitehurst Director
A licensed real estate agent and consultant with over 20 years of experience across commercial & residential real estate, trust accounting, compliance, and small business operations — from set-up through to scale. Licensed in WA, Victoria, and Queensland, she brings the kind of steady, senior expertise that quietly makes everything work. As Director of WhiteGates Consultancy, Carolyn is the trusted partner principals and business owners turn to when the stakes are high and the details matter.
Susan Riddle Consulting Partner - Operations
An operations professional with 20+ years of experience across logistics, health, aged care, finance, residential real estate & events. As Consulting Partner – Operations at WhiteGates Consultancy, she steps inside businesses, fixes what’s broken, and builds the systems and people capability to keep them performing.
WhiteGates Consultancy is a boutique consulting firm built on the belief that good businesses deserve expert support.
We partner with principals, owners, and leadership teams to bring order to complexity — strengthening operations, systems, compliance, and people capability so organisations can focus on what they do best.
With over 40 years of combined experience across multiple industries, we offer the kind of senior-level expertise that’s usually out of reach for small and growing businesses.
Calm under pressure, precise in execution, and genuinely invested in your success.