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John Allin - has spoken about the snow and ice industry at industry trade shows all over the United States, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and Asia. Because of his extensive knowledge in the snow industry, combined with his vast experience, Allin is recognized as the foremost snow and ice industry consultant in the country today more... |
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Richard Arlington, CSP, LICM - Green Media has selected Rich Arlington to their list of Most Influential People in the Green Industry. He is a nationally recognized speaker with over 25 years of experience in the Landscape, Snow and Facility Maintenance industries who has delivered more than one hundred presentations, including keynotes and educational workshops, on a wide range of business and industry topics, such as contracts and the RFP process, leadership, operational efficiencies, sales and marketing, risk management, team motivation and more... | |
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Rodney L. Bailey - is a specialist in financial management, strategic planning, organization development, systems & controls, operations management, industrial engineering, and marketing & sales for the landscape industry. He has been a featured speaker to Green Industry groups for over 30 years, working with local, state, and national associations. more... | |
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Tony Bass - Tony Bass has delivered over 200 seminars to over 20,000 green industry professionals teaching the business side of landscaping. He founded Bass Custom Landscapes in 1987 and grew the business to a multi-million dollar sales volume with nearly 100 employees working from 3 locations in Central Georgia. more... |
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John Bartram - is considered the "father of American Botany". Portrayed by Kirk R. Brown, Bartram comes to life with amazing gallery of pictures and quotes adds to his electrifying and edifying performance more... | |
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Pamela Berstler - is a thought-leader on changing the BEAUTIFUL residential landscape paradigm from the water and resource-depleting gardens of today to the climate and place-appropriate mini watersheds of tomorrow. Pamela's super-charged, passionate talks and workshops will inspire you to get out, get dirty, more... | |
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Chuck Bowen - As the lead editor for Lawn & Landscape, Chuck speaks to what’s happening with contractors and suppliers at a national, regional and state level. He can also touch on broad best practices from contractors across the country on such topics as marketing, benchmarking, social media, hiring, interviewing and management. more... | |
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Kirk R. Brown - A recipient of the Pennsylvania Nursery and Landscape Association ”Green Achiever” Award for advancing horticulture in Pennsylvania, he serves as business manager of award-winning Joanne Kostecky Garden Design, Inc. His portrayal of John Bartham is nationally acclaimed more... | |
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Mark
Carlson - Consults with various landscape architects in
California on landscape lighting design. He is a certified outdoor
lighting design & low voltage technician and led a team in the
development of the Design Certification Program offered by the Association
of Outdoor Lighting Professionals (AOLP). more... |
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Barbara L. Collins, MS - presents seminars on a variety of horticultural topics. She earned her MS in Horticulture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Landscaping Herbs and Professional Interior Plantscaping, and has worked a number of years in the interior plantscaping industry more... | |
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Jason Cupp - A former CEO turned Kolbe Certified Growth Consultant, Team Building Expert, and Motivational Speaker, Jason's diverse knowledge and experience, combined with a relational and approachable style more... | |
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Melissa Daniels - CNLP, has been in the nursery and landscape business for 20 years. Melissa started and operated her own landscape design and maintenance firm in Westhampton Beach, NY. She worked as the sales and inventory manager for East Coast Nurseries where she helped take the company from $1M to $4M annual sales more... | |
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Owen
Dell, ASLA -
is an award-winning, internationally
admired landscape architect, author and educator. He is the principal of
Owen Dell & Associates in Santa Barbara, specializing in sustainable
landscape architectural services. Owen has been part of the landscaping
profession since 1971, and he has pioneered
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Beth Dockins - is the Director of Customer Service for Scotts LawnService in Marysville, Ohio. She is a well respected keynote speaker for customer service, green industry and call center events. Emerging areas of expertise are digital natives and interactive customer service. more... | |
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Ron Edmonds - An expert in green industry mergers and acquisitions. For buyers and sellers of landscape businesses, Ron assists in developing strategic plans for acquisitions, identifying targets, facilitating negotiations, structuring transactions and more... | |
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George Elvin, PhD, LEED AP - is a designer, author and international speaker sharing insights on next-generation green design, technologies and business with professionals and organizations worldwide. He has a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, is a LEED-accredited professional, and ran a successful design-build firm in Washington D.C. for ten years. more... | |
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Jenks Farmer - Horticulturist - is a plantsman and plant promoter. He designed and built Riverbanks Botanical Garden, Moore Farms Botanical Garden and two of his own plant based companies. He's lectured for the Smithsonian, Wave Hill, Northwest Flower Show and many other groups. more... | |
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Barbara Geiger - As a professional speaker and landscape historian, Barbara Geiger engages her audiences with scholarly research presented with humor and the flow of good storytelling. Her presentations come alive no matter where she is speaking—in classrooms, auditoriums, offices, and even columbariums. more... | |
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Barry Glick - Horticulturist - lectures extensively both in the US and abroad on the subject of North American Native Plants. In 1995 he developed a hands-on propagation workshop called "The Joy of Propagation" or "Everything That You Wanted To Know About Propagation, But Were Afraid To Ask". The 4-hour workshop was first presented at the 5th annual Millersville Native Plant Symposium at Millersville University, Millersville Pennsylvania. more... | |
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Paul Gosselin - President Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals (AOLP) - As a long term resident of the beautiful central Texas hill country, President and Chief Designer, Paul R. Gosselin, Sr., has built NightScenes Corporation around the small town values of integrity and hard work. He is passionate about providing top quality service for a fair price and appreciates the value of relationships over making a fast buck. more... | |
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Brad Groff - Brad can help your participants get the most out your conference. As a business owner for over 20 years, he will show how businesses are made up of 4 main elements. This will help them focus on improving what matters most and not get burned out achieving nothing. This opening talk will be more... | |
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Phil Harwood - is a leading voice in the landscape and snow industries, Phil is the founder, president, and CEO of Pro-Motion Consulting with extensive business experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, executive manager, speaker, and writer for industry publications to share his message of organizational health and growth. more... | |
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Constance Haydock- ASLA, is a LEED accredited professional. Her programs focus on site planning and design and consultation for sustainable design, adaptive re-use, and projects seeking LEED certification. more... | |
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Chris Heiler - is the founder and president of Landscape Leadership, an inbound marketing agency that combines social media, content marketing, and search marketing into integrated and measurable campaigns for green industry clients ranging from landscape design/build firms and landscape management companies to garden centers, growers and specialty manufacturers. more... | |
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Tommy Herren - Tommy brings over 30 years of landscape contracting experience to the table when he talks about lighting a landscape. He is featured regularly on local cable television DIY Network and HGTV’s Yard Crashers, House Crashers, Turf War and more... | |
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David Hildreth - has held positions from Lawn Care Specialist to Regional Manager over his fifteen years with Chemlawn, ultimately having responsibility for the Chicago Region, consisting of ten locations, a training/telemarketing center, and 130,000 customers with approximately $24,000,000 in revenues. more... | |
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Shel Horowitz - as an environmental and social justice activist since 1972, Shel Horowitz has used his skills for a number of environmental and social change organizations—especially a group he founded called Save the Mountain, which mobilized thousands of people and rapidly beat back an “unstoppable” poorly-planned development on a mountain abutting a state park, more... | |
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Rachel
Hulan - developed
and taught courses in sustainable design at several state universities in
California. As a consultant and speaker, she shares her years of
experience and knowledge to help professionals in the green industry
successfully reach their sustainable design goals. more... |
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Marc Karell P.E., CEM, has over 25 years of experience in all areas of Sustainability, Energy, Air Quality, and Climate Change, working on environmental audits, emission inventories, testing, and technical and strategic air compliance and Climate Change projects for diverse industries across the U.S. more... | |
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Kevin Kehoe - Kevin's programs are designed to show landscape contractors successful ways to increase growth and profits, set sales and marketing strategies and plans, helping them grow by acquisition, and assisting in valuation and exit when it comes time to cash out. more... | |
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Robert Littlepage, APLD; RLA - Tutor of Irrigation Design and Installation is the Founder/Director of the California School of Garden Design and principal of Robert Littlepage Landscape Architecture in Applegate, California. With an emphasis on sustainability and water efficient irrigation, he brings 30+ years of practical hands-on experience to all of his presentations. more... | |
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Corbett Lunsford - is the founder of Green Dream Group's Building Performance Workshop (a BPI Testing Center) and hosts the Building Performance Podcast. He also serves as Executive Director of the Illinois Association of Energy Raters & Home Performance Professionals, and authored Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing. more... | |
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Kelle McMahon - is CEO of The Green Science Academy headquartered in Oakland California. She works closely with businesses and organizations to develop skills that will assist workers in developing and implementing a clear path of movement to a sustainable and healthy career. more... | |
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Mike Monji - is a Certified Arborist, QAL, Master Gardener, and a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. He is the host of the "Home and Garden Show" on KNZR radio, and has consulted and lectured at Bakersfield College, California State University Bakersfield. more... | |
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Matthew Peterson, CRIS - Assists professional snow contractors in identifying, analyzing, controlling and monitoring operational risk. more... | |
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Bill Phagan - is a speaker, educator and financial and business operations consultant for all green industry professions as well as lawn care and pest control companies. He is a former IBM sales manager and trainer as well as a former owner/operator of a 45 person landscape management company. more... | |
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Gregory Pierceall - Professor Emeritus Landscape Architecture - Purdue University - has taught landscape architecture for thirty six years. His expertise is site scale design and presentations. Programs include; the ten minute design concept, and as individual and group design motivation. more... | |
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Elliott H. Schaffer - is one of the founding fathers of today's modern Tree & Shrub Care Industry. He has over 30 years experience and has conducted over 8,000 property evaluations and trained more horticulturists than just about anyone else in the Green Industry. His informative training programs are designed to get right to the point without a lot of unnecessary material. These training programs focus on the important details of the tree & shrub care industry from someone who has worked his way up the ladder from running a route to having the training responsibility for over 1,700 field personnel. more... | |
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Jody Shilan - President of the New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association, is a speaker and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the green industry. He has sold over $35 million dollars in installation work and help triple the sales of one company in just 4 years more... | |
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Mark
Simmons - Director of the Ecosystem Design Group at the Lady Bird
Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas. He lectures
widely on his Group's research and consulting projects which focus on
sustainable and regenerative landscapes, include green roofs, native
turfgrass, urban prairies, prescribed fire, invasive species control, and
urban green space restoration, more... |
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Lisa Smith - is the owner of The Tree Resource, a Southern California tree consulting firm providing all aspects of tree management and preservation. more... | |
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James
Solecki - owns and operates
three thriving lighting businesses in Muskoka, Ontario. He started INTEGRA
Bespoke Lighting in 1998 and has grown the business into one of Ontario's
leading outdoor lighting systems companies. Realizing
a need to vertically integrate, James expanded his operations by opening
JSLDesign, an interior lighting design firm, and ventured into the realm
of LED lamps, building the first successful complete line of LED lamps for
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Ken Thomas - During his 25 year career, Envisor founder Ken Thomas has owned three of Atlanta’s most successful landscape companies. Having started, managed, bought and sold a variety of successful landscape operations, he’s uniquely positioned to help others nourish and grow their businesses. An astute businessman who’s not shy about digging into the dirt, Ken knows the secrets and systems of thriving landscape operations. more... | |
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Diana Turner APLD has designed sustainable landscapes for more than fifteen years, and has been writing about nature and the environment for more than thirty. A Certified Landscape Designer now working directly with private and commercial clients, Diana has had extensive experience in landscape design/build, more... | |
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Suzanne Wainwright is an Ornamental Entomologist specializing in integrated pest management. Suzanne has been involved in the Green Industry for more than 18 years with a primary focus on biological control and using pesticides properly. Suzanne provides educational seminars and lectures on a variety of subjects from insect ID, Pest Management, Biological Control to Attracting Beneficial Insects and even IPM scouting training. more... | |
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Christy Webber - From what it takes to win a bid, to the skills and knowledge needed to follow through, Christy Webber provides insight on the pros and cons of working with a municipality- all while jugging existing residential and commercial clients. more... | |
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Bruce
R. Williams - CGCS -
Speaks on topics which focus on a variety of services to the golf industry
including; PGA Primer to Golf Course Operations, Tournament Preparation,
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Daniel Wilson - has been a featured seminar presenter at the Western Landscape National Expo the last four years in a row (2008-2011). Daniel was one of the Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) Educational Consultants to represent the District by teaching about landscape improvements with water conservation (2008-2010). more... | |
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Steve Windhager - Executive Director at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Steve directed the Sustainable Sites Initiative from 2006 to 2010, helping to establish the nations first rating system to evaluate landscape sustainability. He speaks on topics related to ecological restoration in the wilderness, green roofs and bioswales in urban areas more... | |
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Mark
Woolbright - patented a line of plantable,
"green" retaining modules nearly 20 years ago and has been
promoting that niche ever since. The retaining wall market has seen many
changes in that time and Woolbright has always believed that the living
wall "niche" could
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