Jacki Hart, CLM, Consulting by Hart

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.

Brian Martin, CHRE, ACC Made to Measure

Brian 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.

Doug Thompson, Belgard Canada

Doug 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.

Chris Knight, Site One Landscape Supply

Chris 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. 

Wesley Hooper, LifeSpace Gardens

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.