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Safer Landscapes, Smarter Growth Kathleen Hallal
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Vendor Partnerships Drive Growth Judy Guido
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Scaling Through Partnership and People Justin Martin & Derek Stutts
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Work Less, Profit More Scott Hutcheon
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Kathleen Hallal is Vice President of Landcare & Municipalities for FireHawk Bioherbicide, where she works with municipalities, universities, schools, landscape professionals, and other organizations seeking effective approaches to more sustainable […]
Where is your company headed?
Judith Guido is the Chairwoman and Founder of Guido & Associates, a firm dedicated to helping organizations profitably grow their people, profits, and valuation. Today, she also serves as the […]
How to become better leaders in your company.
Justin Martin is the CEO of Granite Hills Group, a rapidly growing commercial landscape platform serving the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Since joining Granite Hills in 2020, he has helped lead […]
Brothers Kurt and Matt Bland grew up in an entrepreneurial household as the children of Tom and Nancy Bland in Apex, North Carolina. As founders of Bland Landscaping Company (ca. 1976), at an early age Tom and Nancy exposed Kurt and Matt to the successes and the challenges of running a family business. As young men, the boys worked in every aspect of the homegrown business from field work to estimating and financial planning. Through the late 1980’s, 1990’s and early 2000’s industry icons like Frank Ross, Kevin Kehoe, and Bruce Wilson were regular consultants for the Bland family. Exposure to these industry influencers afforded both Kurt and Matt the opportunity to explore new and forward-thinking ideas about the landscaping industry, at a time when industry maturity and consolidation was still spoken about in a future tense.
