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Leading Teams Through AI Change Michael Bellows
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Scaling Through Shared Ownership Ryan Markewich
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Future-Proofing Landscaping with AI Luke Rykbost
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Building Quality Across Multiple Markets Joshua Canfield
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Michael Bellows is the Co-Founder and CEO of GoMaterials. A seasoned entrepreneur, he has built and led high-performing teams across Fortune 100 companies and his own ventures, driving growth at […]
Where is your company headed?
Ryan Markewich is a landscape entrepreneur and business advisor based in Kelowna, British Columbia. He founded Creative Roots Landscaping over 30 years ago and has since transitioned the company to […]
Luke Rykbost is a Commercial Project Manager at Natorp’s in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he oversees complex landscape installations with a focus on operational excellence and technical precision. A graduate of […]
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.
