Summer Growth Summit - 2025

JEFFREY SCOTT'S 8TH ANNUAL SUMMER GROWTH SUMMIT

NEW PRE-EVENT – "BUILD A WINNING TEAM”

Aug 19 - Tuesday - 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM:

Build a winning team: with expert guidance on lean management, gamification, creating a winning culture, high-impact team-building, constructing a year-round workforce, and more. See below for the exciting details. Includes breakfast, lunch, and a networking reception.

(Reception-only tickets available for spouses.)

SUMMER GROWTH SUMMIT:

Aug 20 - Wednesday - 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM: Tour two Schill Grounds Management locations: Their original headquarters and a second branch. Includes 10 Schill learning stations, breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception.

Aug 21 - Thursday - 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Jeffrey Scott and Schill’s executive leadership team will take the stage. There will also be other presentations and a Q/A with Jerry Schill. Includes breakfast, lunch, and our famous dark chocolate.

Email Meredith at Meredith@jeffreyscott.biz for our group discounts.

FULL AGENDA DETAILS

PRE-EVENT - "BUILD A WINNING TEAM."

Tuesday Aug 19

This is a full-day focused on empowering your team and stretching their potential. Attendees will sit at tables based on their title/role to network with their peers!

Presentations include:

• The Growth Habit by Jeffrey Scott, Founder, Jeffrey Scott Consulting.
• “Lean Thinking, Lean Operations, Streamlined Growth by Jerry Schill, Founder, Schill Grounds Management, OH
• Gamification & Winning Cultures by Jono Fries, VP of Operations, Schill Grounds Management, OH.
• Expanding Capacity by Building a Kick-Ass Team in Five Easy Steps by Dave Leff, Director, TLC Landscape, ON / Schill, OH.
• What's Your Score - Maximizing the Value of Your Business by Mitch Katz, Director of Operations, Jeffrey Scott Consulting.
• Becoming A Destination Company: Building A Year Round Workforce by Providing Full Time Careers, by Ivan Katz, Founder, Great Lakes Landscape Design, MI.
• Finding Your Personal Mission at Work. by Craig Attkisson, Green Side Up, Richmond, VA
• Maximize work-flow efficiency and client satisfaction where sales and production intersect, Jose Genel, GM, Landscape Renovations, MN.

This day will include many "steal-able” tools, concrete systems, and new mindsets. It will be inspiring for everyone who attends.

We will ensure there is ample networking and break time to discuss and digest what you are learning.

Ends with an Evening Reception

SUMMER GROWTH SUMMIT

Wed/Thur - Aug 20 & 21 till 2:00 PM

This year's Summer Growth Summit provides a behind-the-scenes view of one of the industry's top landscape firms: Schill Grounds Management.

Wednesday, August 20:

All-day tour of two Schill facilities (Original HQ and Branch). Visit 10 learning stations, where 15 managers and leaders will show how they run and grow their departments:

1. Business Development Driven Growth - Building and managing a high-impact sales team
2. Maintenance Operations: the core of building value
3. Snow - regardless of your mix, getting it right
4. Design-Build and Commercial Install
5. Account Management & Enhancements - a system for success
6. Branch Management: a weekly repeatable process for smooth operations
7. Recruiting, front line and middle management
8. Fleet Management: understanding how to manage and finance it.
9. Marketing & Brand Management: Getting it right.
10. Regional Management - being CEO of your area of the business.

Plus Evening Reception.

Thursday, August 21:

Spend time with the executives of Schill to learn how they steer the organization.

Schill leadership will share:

• Keeping the score with KPIs by Jerry Schill, CEO
• Winning the War on Talent by Director of People at Schill
• Hard on Process, Soft on People by COO at Schill
• Acquisitions Deconstructed by CFO at Schill

Included on Thursday is also

• Inspirational Leadership Can Be Taught, by Sean Baxter, Executive Coach, Jeffrey Scott Consulting.
• Empowering Your Hispanic Workforce (15 min power talk) by Jose Genel, GM, Landscape Renovations, MN.
• Presenting "Mighty Oak" award winners
• Open Q&A with Jerry Schill and Jeffrey Scott

Email Meredith at Meredith@jeffreyscott.biz for our group discounts.

Bring your team and get them excited about the future in our industry. Each attendee will sit at a table and network with their peers. They'll leave with actionable ideas and a clear view of the growth potential of their career, your company, and the industry at large.

About Schill Grounds Management (SGM): Founder-lead 25-branch landscape firm across the US and now in Canada. They balance organic growth and acquisitions to grow their firm. They are primarily commercial landscape maintenance, but they implement many best practices that every landscape company, large and small, can learn from.

Event Hotel Details

The Westin Cleveland Downtown

Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE)

Hotel distance: 13 miles

Parking on site -
$15 for day parking (up to 8 hours)
$35 for overnight parking

Jeffrey Scott, MBA, is the leading authority on growth and profit maximization in the landscape industry. He is the inventor of Green Light Selling (a profit-driven sales approach), and founder of the Destination Company® culture program, both of which have been adopted by hundreds of landscape firms across the continent. He has helped full service companies reach 20% net profit margin, and will show you how to run a more successful enterprise that you can scale, and still enjoy the life you deserve.

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