Half-day workshops are sessions that run for three hours. These sessions are interactive and designed to bring value to strengthen your skills or workplace practices.
Check out the sessions scheduled below!
Half-day workshops are sessions that run for three hours. These sessions are interactive and designed to bring value to strengthen your skills or workplace practices.
Check out the sessions scheduled below!
Jacki is a sought-after landscape business coach, teacher, and speaker. She brings a career full of landscape business and team management experience – both as a landscape contractor and as a business coach. Just like many of you, her passion for landscapes and plants far outweighed her business management talent for many years. Fast forward 30 years, and she leverages both her hard-learned business acumen plus her passion for helping entrepreneurs and managers, in everything she does for the landscape profession. As a professional speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, and business coach, Jacki focuses on helping others grow their businesses, their managers, and their success.
Jacki has over 200 published magazine articles to her credit and is a skilled entrepreneurial educator.
In her spare time (whenever that is) Jacki enjoys being in her kayak, on her bike or snowshoes exploring the rivers and forests near her Muskoka, Ontario home.
In this 3-hour workshop, join Jacki Hart, an industry-specific consultant, on a journey through solutions for the challenges of attracting and retaining staff. Learn a new approach to solving the root causes of low employee attendance and retention rates. Watch as Jacki reveals cutting-edge leadership thinking, directed specifically at employers who struggle with staffing and retention.
There will be four key concepts will be covered, which will include specific examples on ‘how’ to adapt to the current workforce market:
Who Should Attend?
(In other words, anyone who either hires, fires, onboards or manages people daily.)
9:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday September 13, 2022
Member Early Bird: $150.00
Non Member Early Bird: $175.00
Member Regular: $175.00
Non Member Regular: $190.00
Early bird seminar rates will available until Friday, September 2nd.
Buy TicketsBrian Martin, CHRE, ACC is a certified business coach. His career is dedicated to helping employees, leaders, teams, and organizations realize their full potential. A change agent, organizations benefit from his unique perspective on company culture, performance, and engagement. His diverse background includes operations and human resource executive positions for well-known Canadian and U.S. retail brands. Most recently he was the Vice President of Organizational Development for Indigo & Chapters. Previously he was the Vice President, Global Talent Development for the TJX Companies (Winners, HomeSense, Marshalls, and TJ Maxx), a Fortune 100 company based in Boston, MA.
Brian recently returned to the Fraser Valley from Toronto and operates Made to Measure, a full circle consulting and coaching firm. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Toronto Children’s Chorus. An advocate for childhood literacy, his company is proud to have brought Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to the Fraser Valley.
Leading with Vision
In today’s competitive environment, Leading with Vision is essential to creating and sustaining high performance organizations that inspire employees and engage customers. Explore the building blocks and processes successful organizations use that enable leaders to think and act strategically, while fostering high levels of employee commitment and engagement.
1:00pm - 4:00pm, Tuesday September 13, 2022
Member Early Bird: $150.00
Non Member Early Bird: $175.00
Member Regular: $175.00
Non Member Regular: $190.00
Early bird seminar rates will available until Friday, September 2nd.
Buy TicketsDoug Thompson has over 15 years of experience in the industry, with extensive experience in all facets of hardscaping including installing, training, repair, and selling. Doug is well respected among the dealer, design, and contractor communities. His previous work experience includes Techniseal, Landscape Centre and Abbotsford Concrete Products. Doug is a Certified Techniseal Trainer and AquaPave Instructor.
Join Doug Thomson for a hands-on half-day workshop exploring BELGARD Pavers & Hardscapes. This workshop is a great way to get newer installers trained in industry best practices and more seasoned participants up to speed on the current hardscape possibilities. If you are installing hardscapes or thinking of taking on the responsibility, you want to take part in this workshop.
9:00am - 12:00pm, Wednesday September 14, 2022
Member Early Bird: $150.00
Non Member Early Bird: $175.00
Member Regular: $175.00
Non Member Regular: $190.00
Early bird seminar rates will available until Friday, September 2nd.
Buy TicketsChris has a wide array of experience in the landscaping industry. He has owned and operated his own installation company for 15 years. He has worked as a technical Sales Representative for a local hardscape manufacturer and is currently a Business Development Manager with SiteOne Landscape Supply. He has been an NCMA certified retaining wall instructor as well as an installer, an ICPI Certified installation instructor and installer, and a BCLNA Certified Landscape Technician.
There was a time when we could just run our sprinklers all day, any day to water our lawns and gardens. However, water has become a very scarce and sacred commodity in periods of drought. It is a resource that needs protecting and municipal regulations have restricted how much and how often we can run our sprinklers. Conversely, with new terms like “Atmospheric River” we are seeing wetter winters with peak rainfalls that overwhelm our municipal stormwater systems. There is a way to combine these two issues and collect and store water on site to use either domestically, or release back into the system after peak flooding. In this hands-on workshop, we will look at alternate ways to collect, store and use water in our gardens and landscapes using hardscape products.
9:00am - 12:00pm, Thursday September 15, 2022
Member Early Bird: $150.00
Non Member Early Bird: $175.00
Member Regular: $175.00
Non Member Regular: $190.00
Early bird seminar rates will available until Friday, September 2nd.
Wesley Hooper is the co-founder of LifeSpace Gardens. Over the last 10 years he has built, planned, or been a part of the construction of over 3000 urban veggie gardens. With a dedicated focus on local food, water sustainability, and food security; he specializes in helping people balance their modern lifestyles with the challenge of growing food in urban environments. His LifeSpace Gardens can be found on yards, rooftops, balconies, and public spaces across Southwestern BC, Canada, and abroad. He actively works with architects, builders, landscapers, schools, and municipalities to help integrate veggie gardens into everyday urban infrastructure to drive engagement and connect people with their food and how it grows. Wesley is the inventor and patent holder of an innovative self-watering system that combines the best of hydroponic principles with traditional organic growing techniques, and is the proud recipient of the 2016 North Vancouver Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Some of his most notable projects include: The Balcony Garden Exhibit for Science World, The Shipyards Garden District for the Lower Lonsdale BIA, The Food Eco District for the City of Victoria, and the Open Streets Project for the City of North Vancouver. When not in the garden, he can often be found in the forests of the North Shore with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
Want to grow your own food, but droughts and water restrictions got you down? Have projects that require Urban Ag, and looking for best practices? Want to just save water and reduce maintenance for your planters, raised beds and future garden projects? This seminar is for you!
In this 3-part half day seminar, Wesley Hooper, Co-Founder of LifeSpace Gardens, will draw on his 10+ years of urban gardening experience to discuss strategies and best practices that have helped him, and his team utilize sub-irrigation to transform thousands of residential, commercial, and municipal spaces into thriving self-watering veggie gardens.
This seminar will be highly valuable for:
1:00pm - 4:00pm, Thursday September 15, 2022
Member Early Bird: $150.00
Non Member Early Bird: $175.00
Member Regular: $175.00
Non Member Regular: $190.00
Early bird seminar rates will available until Friday, September 2nd.