landscaping business coaching
What are the fastest growing landscaping companies doing.. that you’re not?
Systemize your landscaping business for growth through prebuilt processes, credentialed coaches and a community of high-performing peers.
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After 12 months in the program the average Breakthrough Academy Member sees...
Internal data analysis from over 1900 companies coached for an average of 29 months in the program.
Is growing your landscaping business exhausting you?
When you run a landscaping business, and you’re great at what you do, work floods in, and operations spin out of control.
Clients badger you with never-ending questions
Your crews call you 100 times a day, forcing you to work IN your business (not ON it)
And a shrinking labor pool makes building the dream team feel like an uphill battle
All the while, fly-by-nighters are constantly underbidding you
That’s why we created Breakthrough Academy.
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Business networking on steroids.
Crowdsourced solutions, healthy competition, and endless inspiration all await you inside Breakthrough Academy’s one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial ecosystem.
As a medium sized company we found a great fit with BTA and the community, structure and guidance it has provided. Our business coach has been a tremendous asset to our team and has aided in our growth over the last 12 months tremendously. 5 Star review for a 5 star company
Breakthrough Academy has been instrumental in helping me grow my company and be more profitable. Their team and processes are top-notch.
Coming from a small business owner of a growing Landscape Management company the guidance and support of the team at Breakthrough Academy has been instrumental to the success and growth of our business. We look forward to continued success and partnership with the support of the entire BTA team.
Proof and results
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Nik Palladino
Ryan Lermitte
Van City Electric
Chris O'Donohue
Brad Gordon
Mike Van Capelle
Nik and Sam started painting houses to pay their way through college. Growth brought along serious challenges, though. Their business had matured, and headcount had grown, but their systems hadn't. After a few years of turning away work they couldn't get to, they realized they needed to overhaul their systems—badly.
By implementing a Strategic Plan, Goal Setting and Review (GSR) meetings, and an effective tech stack, Ryan was able to automate and delegate his way to a more strategic role in the company.
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing.
Uncover how Chris O'Donohue of Great Canadian Landscaping grew his profits and got his time back.
With the help of Breakthrough Academy, Brad has implemented high-impact business systems, including an organizational chart, employment agreements, and ideal candidate profiles to improve hiring.
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge.
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Mike Van Capelle
Ian Price
Jason Hoke
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge. A few years later, though, he was pulling his hair out.
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jason Hoke
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Ian Price
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jon Drew
Jon Drew always wanted to work for himself, and when he started Refined Exteriors with a long-time friend, he knew he'd made the right choice. But, the growth of the company led to new challenges.
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Cory Byron
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing and the work kept coming, but without understanding the ins and outs of budgeting, job costing or financial controls, Cory found himself doing side jobs outside the business just to make ends meet.
Hashtag Plumbing
Brent and Chloë Mooney
From the outside, Hashtag Plumbing owners Brent and Chloë Mooney were running a successful 6-figure plumbing business. On the inside, things felt a lot more hectic. Brent wore every hat in the business. One time, he worked 68 hours in a 3 day period. When they found themselves with $1MM in revenue and no money in the bank, Brent and Chloë knew it was time to ask for help.
Frequently asked questions about Breakthrough Academy.
A landscaping business coach helps you see your own business clearly, then holds you to fixing what you find. Most owners are too deep in the season to get that view on their own. You can feel the profit leaking somewhere, but between crews, weather and a phone that doesn't stop, there's never a week quiet enough to work out where. Landscape business coaching gives you the outside opinion and the accountability to do something about it. The answers are usually already in the business, but somebody has to be looking while you're busy running it.
Because a full schedule and a profitable schedule aren't the same thing. Landscaping company profit gets eaten by things that never appear as a line item: bids priced on perfect-weather production rates, hours lost to drive time and reloads, material waste nobody tracks and low-margin work quietly taking capacity from the jobs that actually pay. Landscape business profit is mostly decided by what you measured last season, not by how hard the crews work this one.
The landscaping business systems that matter first are the ones that decide whether a job makes money: an annual budget with targets by service line, estimating built on real production rates, job costing on every crew every week and material controls. Then the people side. Defined roles, employment agreements and crew lead training, so growth doesn't rest on you knowing everyone's job better than they do. Scaling without those landscaping company systems buys more equipment and more payroll, and leaves the margin exactly where it was.
You grow a landscaping business without working more hours by building a day your crews can run without you steering it. That starts with a budget broken out by service line, so you know which work is actually worth taking. Then estimating built on measured production rates, job costing by crew and crew leads trained and accountable for the site. Landscaping company growth has a ceiling and the ceiling is you. More trucks on the road just means more people who need an answer from the same phone.
Crews call because the plan wasn't finished when they left the shop. Landscaping crew management works when the site plan, the scope, the material list and the target for the day are in the truck before it pulls out, and the crew lead has been trained to make the small calls without checking first. Landscaping business systems are just decisions made once, in advance, instead of forty times a day at highway speed.
Yes, and arguably more than for a year-round contractor. A seasonal landscaping business has to earn a year of money in a compressed window, which means the planning has to happen when nothing is on fire. Landscaping business coaching puts the budget, hiring plan, service mix and cash flow work in the off-season, where it belongs. The goal isn't a quieter busy season. It's a busy season that doesn't get to make every decision for you.
You’ve built something great. Let’s make it amazing.
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We’ve helped over 1,900 contractors just like you
You don’t need to build it by yourself.
The time is now.
Over 1,900 Contractors have built businesses they’re proud of with Breakthrough Academy.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
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