Jeffrey Scott speaks with these two landscape entrepreneurs about their experiences hiring a Human Resource manager. Arnie Arsenault is managing partner of A. Arsenault and Sons, and Dustin Wolfe is owner of Artistic Grounds, both located in Massachusetts. Arnie and...
Blair Walton runs a large, fast-growing, technology-forward design-build maintain company in Wilmington, NC. He shares his experience as “the host" of a recent Leader’s Edge peer group run by Jeffrey Scott, where over a dozen landscape business owners descended on his...
Dale Drier is the General Manager for Drost Landscape (MI), a multi decade, multi division company where he started as a laborer, and grew into this position of GM to help grow and transform the company. Jeff and Dale talk about many the facets of being a second in...
Joshua Gámez is the founder of East Coast Facilities, based in Allentown, PA. It is merely 5+ years old, already 20 million and growing super fast. Joshua is turning the industry on its head by creating a front-line focused company. The business is uniquely...
Jeffrey Scott invites two of his clients and excellent landscape entrepreneurs, Chris Vedrani (Planted Earth Landscaping, MD) and Ted Lucia (Lucia Landscaping, MI) to share their experiences in fully staffing and growing their businesses in such a tight labor market....
Krisjan Berzins is CEO of Kingstowne Lawn & Landscape in Alexandria, VA. He runs an 8M fully residential business serving 3500 active clients. The business was started with another partner whom he bought out, and now is run by his leadership team fully. Jeffrey...
Matt Hiner is the “Chief Yardist” at Hiner Outdoor Living in Colorado Springs, CO. He runs a 3M+ residential design build and water feature business that he started 13 years ago. Jeffrey and Matt discuss what makes his business unique, namely his extraordinary success...
In this 2nd episode with Dr. Charlie Hall, you will learn more about the economics of landscaping, with both global and national issues impacting the industry. Dr. Hall grew up working on a nursery in Western North Carolina. He is currently is a professor in the...
Lisa Fiore is Founder & CEO of LandscapeHub, a B2B online marketplace she created and launched in July 2017. A fourth-generation nursery professional, Ms. Fiore realized there was an opportunity to digitize the entire procurement process for the green industry. ...
Heather Dirksen is President of the $35M Arbor Masters, with 9 branches in five states. Heather is driven, with many careers: First in the military, then as a civilian air traffic controller, then at the age of 29 she started a flight school to subsidize the cost of...
