Blog Wide – The Commercial Landscaper Podcast

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How to better execute on your goals.

Luke Hansen

Luke Hansen June 16, 2021

Luke Hansen is the Founder and CEO of the construction industry software, CompanyCam. CompanyCam started in 2015 and now serves tens of thousands of contractors across the globe and has been used to document information in the field for over 5 million projects to date. Having been in the roofing business for over 15 years, Luke has been a contractor at his family’s roofing company far longer than he’s been a tech founder. Luke has worn nearly every hat at White Castle Roofing–a Top 100 Roofing Company–from installer to marketing director, and he’s no stranger to the hard work up […]

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Culture

How to improve your company culture.

Ed Gallagher

Ed Gallagher June 14, 2021

Ed has served in many different capacities over the past 35 years with various industry leaders, including ten years with the Davey Company from 1996 to 2006. During that time, Ed served as the project lead on the Red Roof Inn renovation project, National Project Developer and Midwest Operations Manager for our Commercial Grounds Management division. He was instrumental in the development of Davey Golf and the Davey Institute of Grounds Management, Water and Sustainable Initiatives. Ed was Manager of the year in 2001 for our Commercial Landscape Management Team and a member of the Presidents Council from 2001-2004. Ed […]

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Leadership

How to become better leaders in your company.

John Spence

John Spence June 9, 2021

John Spence is recognized as one of the top business thought leaders and leadership development experts in the world and was named by the American Management Association as one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. John was the owner or CEO of six companies and currently serves as a board member or adviser to several organizations and executives. He is a guest lecturer at more than 90 colleges and universities including MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Wharton School of Business, University of Auckland, Canterbury University, University of […]

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HR

How to overcome some of your HR challenges

Caitlin Clineff

Caitlin Clineff June 7, 2021

Caitlin Clineff has worked in the Green Industry for 7 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in Horticultural Science from NC State, and has worked in famous public gardens such as Duke Gardens and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as being a landscape designer, project manager, and consultant. She now works at Myatt Landscaping & Construction, where she handles recruitment, retention, employee engagement, public outreach, the website, and social media. Her goal is to help drive the industry workforce toward a more diverse, sustainable future.

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IT

Understand ways in which technology can improve efficiencies.

Mike Rorie

Mike Rorie June 3, 2021

Mike Rorie has been an active participant and leader in the green industry for four decades. Mike founded GroundMasters in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1979 and grew the company to a multi-city regional operation before selling to a national provider in 2006. He is now a partner of GroundSystems, and the CEO of GIS Dynamics, parent company of Go iLawn and Go iPave property measuring and estimating software.

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HR

How to overcome some of your HR challenges

Katrina Fehring

Katrina Fehring June 1, 2021

Katrina brings over 20 years of human resources and business management experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors, large and small businesses across a variety of industry sectors. Her passion is assisting business owners and executives by making available to small and mid-size businesses the integration of strategic HR management practices and process improvements which are customized to fit the size, goals, culture and nature of business operations which are unique to every organization. Katrina brings excellent knowledge of organizational development and human resources generalist experience with accomplishments in employee relations, leadership coaching, performance feedback, HRIS implementation and systems […]

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Sales

How to increase revenue in your company.

Marc Elliott

Marc Elliott May 25, 2021

Marc Elliott is the CEO and Co-founder of GoMaterials, the most efficient online marketplace to source plant materials for landscaping professionals. After owning a landscape construction business for over 10 years Marc understood that procurement in the landscape industry was a real problem. He had experienced first-hand the headaches related to poor quality materials arriving on the job site, last minute order changes, product availability shortages and late deliveries. GoMaterials was founded to help solve these headaches. Today, GoMaterials is used to source millions of dollars in annual landscape material volume and is operational in Canada and the USA. Website: […]

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Sales

How to increase revenue in your company.

Eric Partaker

Eric Partaker May 18, 2021

As a Peak Performance Expert, Eric Partaker helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders reach their full potential, become better leaders, and build better businesses. Within his approach he draws from his time advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey, his experience helping build up Skype’s multi-billion dollar success story, and his own entrepreneurial journeys – together with behavioral science from Stanford University, as well as techniques from the worlds of elite sports and the military, areas where peak performance is key. Eric has been named “CEO of the Year” at the 2019 UK Business Excellence Awards, one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs […]

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Sales

How to increase revenue in your company.

Utkarsh Sharma

Utkarsh Sharma May 11, 2021

Utkarsh Sharma is the Founder and CEO of SiteRecon. SiteRecon platform completely automates property measurements and requires no human intervention. This is his second venture at the interface of artificial intelligence and geospatial mapping. Having built multiple, continental-scale datasets of commercial properties in his first venture, Utkarsh realized that there is no plug and play solution that delivers ready-to-use information about exteriors of a property. Utkarsh started SiteRecon to fill that gap, believing that rapid access to the truth about our physical world is a fundamental right of every business.

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Sales

How to increase revenue in your company.

Chris Cloud

Chris Cloud May 4, 2021

Chris is a growth, sales, and strategy specialist. He’s also been an entrepreneur since the age of 10 when he picked and sold wild blackberries and apples from a stand in front of his house in Washington State. Serving in three fast-growing tech startups over the past 17 years, he’s seen firsthand the joys and struggles of rapid growth. Chris is the founder of ALIGN, a business growth consultancy, and CreativeSales, a sales training and coaching company. Through his courses, he helps sales pros and business owners think outside the “industry box” and develop a repeatable sales process that helps […]