Graduating from Lehigh in 2011, with an Industrial Engineering degree, Jarrett started his career in the manufacturing industry, deploying lean manufacturing concepts across manufacturing sites in China, Germany, and the US. This idea of process improvement and standard work has been an ongoing theme of his career, applying an engineering mindset to problem solving in a wide range of business settings.

Having grown up around the industry, Jarrett was exposed to the landscaping world early on, starting with Brickman during college and then ultimately joining what is now Brightview in Northern California, as a member of their operations excellence team. He’s always had a strong passion for bringing the world of technology into blue collar work and is eager to be a driving force around bringing the green industry into the 21st century, through embracing new technologies. The opportunity to do this around autonomous technologies has been accelerated recently, following the achievements of the self driving car industry, hence the opportunity he finds himself in with ESR.

Outside of his professional life, Jarrett is an avid triathlete, golfer, and skier and calls Marin county home, just north of San Francisco, where he recently bought a home with his wife, Nina and golden retriever, Gunner.

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That unique career trajectory and skill set have enabled her to gather a wealth of knowledge around process improvement, branding, resource optimization, and personnel management, all of which she now applies to aiding OneSource's continued growth in the crowded, Phoenix Metro B2B market while navigating the economic and emotional roadblocks brought on by global pandemic.

When she's not tweaking the details of a marketing campaign or testing new software integrations, Mazeratie spends her time working in her garden with her husband and their three pugs.

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She has served in volunteer leadership roles for more than 20 years, including Past President of Lake Washington Human Resources Association (LWHRA) and Past-Chair of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN). Currently, she is a Board member of Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) and WTIA-HRBI. Shannon is also a member of Entrepreneur Organization (EO), Past President of EO-Seattle and currently serves as an Area Director on EO’s US West Regional Council.

Outside of work, Shannon loves continuously creating her life on Lake Joy with her husband Mike, their daughter Alison, their dog, Pauli-Girl and their cat, Emmy.

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In 1985, while still attending classes, Miles started Kuperus Family Landscaping, which grew to become Farmside Landscape & Design a few years later. Farmside has grown from a small, owner-operated business to what it is today – a full service landscape and design firm with over 300 clients and some 25+ professional landscape employees thanks to the values of what Miles refers to as The Farmside Way: Keep Promises (personal and professional integrity); Exceed Expectations (drive for excellence); and Own the Outcome (accountability that builds trust). His focus on ongoing education and career development for his staff has resulted in a 95% employee retention rate.

A Landscape Industry Certified Manager, Miles is very active in the NALP (National Association of Landscape Professionals), an organization that aligns with his commitment to professional excellence within the landscape industry. He has served on the Board of Directors for the NALP and as Board President for the NALP Foundation, which focuses its support on the education and career development of landscape industry professionals. Additionally, Miles has been a member of the NALP Safety Committee, R&R Committee, Accreditation Committee and the Industry Growth Initiative (IGI).

He is currently serving on the NALP Professional Development and Standards Advisory Council, is a Member of the Sussex County Economic Development Board, and serves on the Sussex Christian School Finance Committee.  

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Speeches, Webinars, Workshops, and Retreats:

• Strategy is Not What “You” Think? It’s What “Others” Think.
• It’s not about the Beer: Why do customers buy, stay, and tell others and what you can do about it.
• Cash Is King: Find more cash in your business right now, in the next 90 days, and in the next year.
• Leadership 1, 2, 3: Master the Three Giant Steps to Leading Others Successfully
• Just One Season: Leadership Lessons from my one season coaching track in Southwest Detroit.

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David saw leadership at the highest levels while traveling the world working for two United States Presidents, served as a senior staffer on two presidential-appointed commissions and working and for a United States Congressman. He’s served on numerous community-based boards of directors and is currently on the global board of directors of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). David has been married to his wife Debbie for 23 years and has two sons.

In his first book, Leadership is Not a Title, David breaks down leadership, which is sometimes presented as complicated, into simple concepts all can relate to

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As one of the Navy’s most highly decorated Landing Signals Officers (LSO), Jack was instrumental in incorporating using CRM to help pilots quickly improve while landing supersonic fighter jets on aircraft carriers.  He was responsible for over 21,000 mishap free carrier landings. Jack’s unique experience as both and LSO and as the Navy’s top CRM instructor, he saw an opportunity to relay the same skills of Brief-Execute-Debrief-Improve to the American workplace.  From healthcare groups, to manufacturing, construction, and insurance firms, Jack’s dynamic seminars have made a lasting impression.  Flying faster than the speed of sound, a zero-fail mentality is a must!  Jack’s programs teach simply how to reduce human error.  Within all seven regions of GE Power and Water alone, Jack’s program has reduced OSHA recordable mishaps over 60%.

Jack earned a BS in Political Science with emphasis on organizational leadership from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Currently he serves part time as an F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet instructor pilot in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Jack brings an unbridled passion for human performance to Flight Level Solutions through consulting, training seminars and keynote addresses. Let Jack’s entertaining and captivating style energize your organization today.

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Ami is the founder and chief executive officer of Multifunding LLC, a Philadelphia based consulting firm that specializes in helping business owners across the United States develop creative, cost-saving alternatives for their business debt needs and structure.

Thought-provoking, interactive and timely, Ami’s presentations address real-world cash flow problems entrepreneurs face on a daily basis. For over twenty years he has challenged people to think differently about their businesses and educated them on how to responsibly use leverage to create wealth.

As the “go-to” thought leader in business financing, Ami is frequently quoted in national media and is a sought-after speaker at business and industry events across the country. He writes a weekly column for Inc. Magazine and has advised the White House, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank.

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Brodie holds a key role in Weathermatic new product development including the award-winning SmartLink Network irrigation control system, a revolutionary cloud-based technology for remotely programming and monitoring irrigation systems. To apply the SmartLink technology in a water management services offering, Brodie was part of the team that originally developed the Sustainability Services division of Weathermatic, now responsible for managing outdoor water for leading Fortune 500 companies and major institutions. Brodie leads the Sustainability Services division comprised of U.S. and European teams of proposal, reporting, and monitoring analysts as well as field operations teams responsible for commissioning and inspections. Today, he incorporates knowledge from national accounts savings programs into the Premier Partner program designed for leading landscape service providers.

Brodie is a graduate of Baylor University where he studied Business Management and International Business. He is the author of Pathway to Profits and editor of the marketing and sales book titled, 21 Secrets. Both books are the official instruction manuals used by the International Irrigation Association. Bruner serves on the Board of Directors for Weathermatic and the Paper for Water charity.

Brodie resides just outside of Dallas, Texas near Southfork Ranch with his wife and three children, who share his passion for providing clean water to the thirsty with 6 water wells sponsored and counting in conjunction with their local school.

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Michel is a “digital tinkerer” at heart and is known for developing apps that drive personal and professional performance. Some of his more notable creations are “CommitTo3”, Michel’s personal daily coaching app “Mindset for Success,” and the recently released “Marshall Goldsmith Coaching” app.

In early 2018, Michel founded his 4th company, Extality, which focuses on high-end, enterprise solutions using VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). The company has delivered groundbreaking work for Magic Leap (a leading AR/MR hardware vendor) and CNN/Turner where they developed CNN’s first AR solution for network news delivery in mixed reality.

Michel found prior success with Presto Studios, a videogame development company that he co-founded and ran for 11 years. Presto Studios had numerous hits including “The Journeyman Project” series, “Myst 3: Exile” and many more. His first company, MOOV design, was founded in 1989 where he developed innovative interactive multimedia projects many years before these new technologies were mainstream. One stand-out project from the time was Verbum Interactive (the world’s first interactive, multimedia magazine).

Michel is extremely active in Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) where he currently serves as the Regional Chair for the US West Regional Council after many years of local chapter service. He has completed the 3-year EO Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT and EO’s Global Leadership Academy in Washington D.C.

As someone who has strived for and found success in work, personal and family life, Michel has decided that it is time to give back. He remains an active learner as his efforts are now transitioning to writing, coaching, teaching and lecturing.

mk@omapp.com | www.MichelKripalani.com (760) 715-5790 | Twitter @MKripalani | Intragram @michelkripalani | LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelkripalani/

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• 2 Years at Emerald Isle
• BS in Business Economics, UCSB
• Certified Public Accountant - 1993

Bachelors degree from UCSB, emphasis in Business Economics, CPA since 1993. 7 years of Public Accounting for various types of clients, primarily in tax practice, setting up computerized accounting systems, and applications programming. 25 years of experience in commercial construction mainly with specialty subcontractors, including 17 years of experience in the landscape industry. Facilitated dissolution and recapitalization of a partnership, and ownership transition in two businesses before coming to Emerald Isle.

Andrew is the former President of Heads Up Landscaping, Inc. in Albuquerque, NM. Along with former owner, Gary Mallory, Andrew helped build the company to over $30 Million in revenue. The company was sold in 2017. Andrew and his family moved to Denver in 2018 where he took over leadership of Emerald Isle. Andrew has a close relationship with Emerald Isle owners, the Lamberton family. The relationship was developed through previous peer group membership.

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Recently named to the Arizona State University Foundation’s Board of Directors, Lauren helps to oversee the nearly $1B endowment for this university, named the most innovative school in the U.S. for the fifth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020 college rankings. A proud ASU graduate, Lauren is also the first alumna to study under current ASU president Michael Crow to now serve alongside him at the Foundation. Lauren also sits on the Grand Canyon University Colangelo College of Business Advisory Board, and is a proud “big sister” with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona. Lauren previously completed a five-year term as a board member of Local First Arizona, is a former Steering Committee Member for Devour Phoenix, and a former board member of the Entrepreneurs Organization. Inducted into the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame as “Restaurateur of the Year”, Lauren has been honored as a “Food Pioneer” by the Arizona Restaurant Association, named by the Phoenix Business Journal as the “Outstanding Women in Business” and selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

Lauren was raised in the state of Indiana and has inhabited a fair amount of cities up and down the East Coast, including New York City and Nantucket. She attended Arizona State University, graduating in 2002 with dual degrees in Communication and Fine Art. In her spare time, Lauren travels the world, chases her 6-year-old, hunts for vintage treasures, creates art, cooks dinner for friends, and spends time with the most important people in her life.

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Jim moved into sales following on from his soccer career and having worked for global businesses such as Xerox and Hays, Jim joined the board of Docuserve as Sales & Marketing Director and laterally Managing Director. Jim led an MBO of the company which subsequently re-branded as Elevate in 2004. 

After creating and selling other small businesses, Jim launched Docs24 in 2013.  Docs24 work with some of the largest blue-chip companies across the globe, within financial services, home improvements, pharmaceutical, education and retail.

Jim hasn't totally hung up his soccer boots, and apart from playing for the Hearts Legends charity team, Jim is also the current captain of the Scottish National Team (over 38’s) and played in this year’s team against Australia, USA, Thailand, England and New Zealand in the Senior World Cup in Thailand, finishing third. The countries also raised a significant amount of money for displaced children within the Country.

Jim has been married for 27 years and has a son aged 25 and a daughter aged 22

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“I love that every day we get the opportunity to leave the world better than we found it.” ~Daniel Currin

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In 2011, Greg’s first book “Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits” shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth building engine. In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, “Scaling Up” on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, “Simple Numbers 2.0: Rules for Smart Scaling”. Greg is a frequent speaker to groups like EO, Scaling Up (Gazelles), Vistage and ACETECH and has presented in over 15 countries.

Greg also chairs the EO@Wharton Executive Education program for the last 5 years and will be launching a new Executive Education program for EO in 2020 called Functional Finance for Entrepreneurs that will teach any entrepreneur the basics to understand their financials and use the data to drive exceptional business performance and value.

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He has a wealth of experience in connecting individual and team performance to improved business results with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations. Dave started his career as a Consultant at Accenture, quickly moving to become the COO and then President of Predictable Success, a boutique consultancy focussed on helping complex businesses achieve scalability.

Whilst at Predictable Success he also ran Inc. Consulting, a joint venture with Inc. Media which helped companies on, or aspiring to be on, the Inc. 5000. achieve consistent, scalable growth. As Founder and CEO of Outfield Leadership, Dave now speaks, coaches and trains on moving from execution to excellence. His goal is to help organizations build a culture of real, authentic but ultimately results-driven leadership.

He has shared his leadership strategies at the Inc. 500 and Growco conferences, Bank of America, for the British Government, Entrepreneur's Organization, Bamboo HR and countless others. And has worked with leaders at Spectrum Health, Renewal by Andersen, Akamai, NYSE and many smaller, fast-growing organizations.

Dave is the host of the podcast 'Lead Like you Give a Damn' and writes a weekly column for Inc.Com.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Dave now lives in Southern California with his wonderful wife, Paris and awesome Staffie, Maggie

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Dennis is also the author of The 8 Qualities of Drama Free Teams, The Power of Pursuit, Drama Free Teams in Healthcare, Drama Free Productivity, Drama Free Relationships.

He has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 27 years and together they have four children. Whenever he isn’t writing, traveling, or speaking, Dennis is an avid runner and enjoys training for races and watching soccer.

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Because Zech believes in inspiring from the top down but leading from the bottom up, employee engagement runs high, with an empowered organization that walks the talk on being a happy place to work, with work that is rigorously grounded in the betterment of nature through better education.

As Zech works with his team to build the SNH platform for 2020, he is focused not only on being a learning-driven executive, but also a cheerleader for SNH’s initiatives: to lead by example in all things sustainable, to inspire his region-wide team to be all they can be, to drive a vision that produces positive results, and to bring more innovation to opportunity.

Zech is a leading voice and advocate for bringing green practices to the landscape and snow management industries, and for creating value through all-season eco-friendly best practices. He sits on several community boards, is founding member and helps run a give back to nature program, and is an active member of SIMA, NALP, ASCA, Come Alive Outside, Ecological Landscape Alliance, CAI, BOMA, CBLP, and his CEO peer group.

Founded in 1998, Strauser’s Nature Helpers (SNH) serves commercial Class A and HOA properties throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York from its locations in East Stroudsburg, Lehigh Valley and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

CONTACT: Zech Strauser zs@strausernature.com www.strauserature.com 570-424-9434 x 305

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Ami is the founder and chief executive officer of Multifunding LLC, a Philadelphia based consulting firm that specializes in helping business owners across the United States develop creative, cost-saving alternatives for their business debt needs and structure.

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Often referred to as ‘inspirational’, Adiba Nelson wrote and self-published her first children’s book in 2013,  after not being able to find a children’s book that adequately and appropriately represented her daughter (African American, with special needs). Since then she has led numerous workshops/given keynote addresses around the country for parents, educators and education professionals/paraprofessionals, focusing on disability inclusion and empowerment. 

Adiba has also penned several articles for Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Lily, Ravishly, and Everyday Feminism, focusing on issues around race, parenting, disability and womanhood. In 2017she gave her first TEDx talk (Skating Downhill: The Art of Claiming Your Life), and joined the NPR affiliate Arizona Public Media as a regular contributor on Arizona Spotlight.

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Pam’s passion for the industry led her to a nursery management position in South Carolina for seven years and eventually back to Atlanta in 2003, where she went to the University of Georgia to work on her horticulture degree. She started Plants Creative in 2005, with a truck and lawn mower, and now has a growing team of 50 people who believe in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Pam attributes the growth of the business to working hard, learning to ask good questions, fostering relationships with smart people who share similar values and creating a strong brand. She enjoys weekends in the North Georgia mountains with her partner, spending summers on the lake and cooler seasons in front of warm fires.  

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“The truth is, it will be over. If we spend too much time dwelling on the uncertainty and not enough time planning for when the light turns green, we’ll squander our opportunity to emerge better, faster and stronger in an economy that’s going to welcome fresh thinking.”

An inspiration for generations of landscape entrepreneurs, Bruce takes listeners through his process for turning crisis into opportunity and how to implement big change. In this 20-minute podcast hosted by Robert Clinkenbeard and David Anderson, Bruce lists the rules for listening to your customer, the importance of morale, and why positivity is the name of the game.

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