The Ultimate Landscape CEO - Jeffrey Scott

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 command and we also discuss how it has allowed the owner, Bob Drost, to transform his own role and regain his free time. The post Episode 183 – Becoming A Second In Command with Dale Drier appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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 diversified with multiple branches spread between northern snow country states and southern full season mowing states. Jeffrey and Joshua talk LinkedIn strategies, politics, growth strategies, and so much more. The post Episode 182 – Building a Front-Line First Company with Joshua Gámez appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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. These two guests share unique strategies and techniques for managing a successful year; with ideas you can make use of immediately in your business. The post Episode 181 – Recruiting, Retaining and Making Money in a Tight Labor Market with 2 Special Guests appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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 and Krisjan discuss how he almost sold his business, how it has grown since he decided to keep it, how he has focused on work-life balance and how his company focuses on client density as its magic cause. He discusses his passions in life: children, family, and real estate and racing. The post Episode 180 – A Leadership Run Business with Krisjan Berzins appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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 on social media, his unique niche with water features and a retail outlet, how he really had to search to find his footing and his calling, even though he has been landscaping since he was fifteen years old. The post Episode 179 – Recruiting with Social Media with Matt Hiner appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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 Department of Horticultural Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hall has degrees in landscape design, economics and horticulture, and is the single most influential economist in our industry. In this episode, Jeffrey and Dr. Charlie Hall tackle 4 key economic drivers: the supply chain constraints, pricing & inflation pressures, spiking demand, and the tight labor outlook. The post Episode 178 – Four Economic Drivers Impacting the Landscape Industry with Economist Dr. Charlie Hall appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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.  Ms. Fiore was previously President of Fiore Landscape and Nursery Supply (FLNS), a century-old nursery company. During her sixteen-year tenure, she was responsible for identifying new business opportunities and in leading the company forward during the recession. FNLS significantly grew in revenue and expanded to multiple locations under her leadership.  Jeffrey and Lisa explore the history of the grower supply chain and where it is headed for the B2B consumer, and how she is leading the charge. The post Episode 177 – Reinventing the Green Goods Supply Chain with Lisa Fiore appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

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 flying and earn her commercial rating. After flying professionally, she joined her husband to grow his landscape maintenance company from 250K to 1M in two years before selling it to a local company. Heather joined Arbor Masters in 2017, became President three years later and now spends her time developing people and growing the business. Jeffrey and Heather discuss a large variety of topics including hiring from the military, how to grow a 35M business, how to manage branch managers, her varied career that led up to her current role as President, and her love for adrenaline. The post Episode #176 – From Military to President of Arbor Masters with Heather Dirksen appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

Mike Haynes founded The Loving Companies and has a unique niche in growing sod and landscaping for builder homes. He has 9 branches in the south east. Mike’s simple and humble start as a middle schooler with a dream and a push-mower in the early 2000’s has led to what has become one of the fastest growing and largest landscaping and sod farming organizations in the US. Jeffrey and Mike discuss what’s unique about super-fast-growing firms, his passion for giving back profits to his employees and communities, his “loose-tight” approach to building branches, and so much more. The post Episode #175 – 0-80M in 18 Years with Mike Haynes appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.

John Puryear, President of Puryear Farms, a commercial and residential landscape firm with over seventy full time employees servicing the Nashville Metropolitan Area since 1991. Their base is a 100-acre nursery located on the banks of the Cumberland River. Jeffrey and John discuss his courageous change of company culture from paternalistic to leadership team, and how it gave him much more profit and free time to travel and focus on rain making. Topics of discussion also include open book management, profit sharing, and managing a combined immigrant/non-immigrant culture. The post Episode # 174 – Transforming a Paternalistic Culture and Gaining Freedom with John Puryear appeared first on Jeffrey Scott.