Laurie Dhue is Managing Director of Family Health and Wellness at Family Office Growth Partners, a leading provider of services for affluent families, wealth management firms and professionals. Her team facilitates access to best-in-class expertise and practices to support and empower family health and well-being.

Dhue is the former Chief Brand Officer at RecoveryEducation.com, an online educational platform for parents and allies of teens and young adults struggling with substance use disorder. One of the nation’s leading recovery advocates, Laurie is in long-term recovery from alcoholism and substance abuse. She has worked closely with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) and the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD). Dhue has spoken on behalf of many national recovery organizations including the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and the Caron Foundation. She travels coast-to-coast giving speeches, emceeing events and moderating panel discussions, as well as offering commentary in national media. She is a member of the Board of Governors for the American Addiction Recovery Association (AARA).

Dhue has had the distinct honor of speaking at the White House in 2014 and 2017 on behalf of ONDCP. She was also a featured speaker at the inaugural UNITE to Face Addiction national rally in Washington, DC in 2015. Dhue appeared in the award-winning 2013 documentary “The Anonymous People” and the Emmy-nominated 2017 documentary “Reversing the Stigma”, produced in conjunction with OASAS (New York State’s Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse). She served as host of the podcast “One Day at a Time” which focuses on mental health and substance use services in the state of Alabama.

Prior to her work in the recovery field, Dhue enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning national news anchor who hosted shows on all three major cable news networks: CNN, MSNBC and FOX News Channel. Her 25 years in news has included interviews with numerous world leaders (including President Trump and President Biden), politicians, entertainers and prominent newsmakers as well as in-depth reporting from the Middle East during the War on Terror. Laurie also has extensive experience in news radio and voiceover work.

In addition to her speaking events at the White House, Laurie has moderated panel discussions on a wide variety of topics, both foreign and domestic, including a panel at the United Nations and a forum on behalf of the Horowitz Freedom Center. She has given speeches at various symposia and universities, including the University of Michigan, UNC-Chapel Hill, the University of Alabama and The Westminster Schools in Atlanta.

Laurie is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a letter-winning member of the women’s varsity swim team and an academic All-American. She also served on the UNC Alumni Board.