We started with a simple belief: the best business advice comes from people who are still doing the work.
It wasn't always this way. In the early days, Marty Grunder was just a teenager running a landscaping company out of his parents' Dayton, Ohio home. He wasn't thinking about coaching or education; he was focused on building a business, one client at a time. But as Grunder Landscaping Co. grew and faced the same challenges every landscape professional knows (finding good team members, managing cash flow, scaling operations without losing quality), Marty realized something important:
The solutions that worked weren't always the ones you'd think.
Today, nearly four decades later, that teenage entrepreneur leads one of the most successful landscaping companies in the Midwest. But somewhere along the way, something else happened. Other landscape professionals started asking questions:
"How do you keep your crews motivated?"
"What's your approach to pricing?"
"How did you grow without burning out?"
"What do you do when a team member isn't working out?"
Those conversations became The Grow Group.
What Makes Us Different
We don't just share theories and ideas. We share tactics we used at our own landscaping company this week that we know still work. When we teach you about morning rollouts, it's because we watched ours this morning. When we talk about handling upset clients, it's because we just had that conversation with our sales team.
Grunder Landscaping Co. serves as our "living laboratory." Every system we recommend, every process we teach, and every strategy we share gets tested there first. If it doesn't work for us, we won't teach it to you.
Our Team
Today, The Grow Group combines landscape professionals who are still running companies with specialists in marketing, operations, and business development. We share the same commitment: helping landscape professionals build the businesses they've always dreamed of.
Our executive coaches bring more than 95 years of combined experience in the field. Whether you're trying to grow your landscaping business or get better control over it, they'll get you where you want to go.
Where We're Headed
We believe the landscaping industry is filled with some of the hardest-working, most dedicated professionals in the world. You deserve education and coaching that respects that dedication by giving you strategies that actually work.
Through our ACE Peer Groups, GLC Field Trips, annual GROW! Conference, and weekly Great Ideas, we're building a community of landscape professionals who aren't just surviving – they're thriving.
Ready to join them?
Ready. Set. Grow!
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