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Take time to evaluate your post closing transition plan Zech Strauser
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How to spend more time with employees and clients through automating workflows Shawn Prince
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Bringing Horticultural Expertise to properties Kasey Billingsley
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Scaling through investing in your employees and “Wowing” your Clients Mario and Diego Hernandez
Where is your company headed?
The habitat of Zech Strauser’s childhood were the farms and free-ranging open spaces of eastern Pennsylvania. During a time when most children’s lives move indoors, Zech was homeschooled by parents […]
Where is your company headed?
Meet Shawn Prince, President of Field Services at Attentive.ai. With over 17 years of experience in the field services industry, Shawn began his journey at Brickman/BrightView and has since played […]
Where is your company headed?
Kasey’s horticultural experience started at a young age on her family’s citrus farm in southwestern Arizona. This family influence helped her discover her passion for flora and fauna and their […]
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.
