Marty Grunder

Marty Grunder

Marty Grunder is President and CEO of The Grow Group and of Grunder Landscaping Co., one of the most successful design-build operations of its kind in the Midwest. An unusual combination of full-time landscape professional and leading Green-Industry coach, Marty is uniquely positioned to deliver real-world, real-time guidance to Grow Group clients. His landscaping company has earned more than 50 local and national design awards and is a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau’s Eclipse Integrity Award, while Marty has himself been named Entrepreneur of the Year by both Ernst & Young and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The author of The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success, he has coached tens of hundreds of landscaping professionals and companies across the U.S. and Canada and delivered more than 550 talks, motivating audiences of all sizes and shapes—from a small gathering of 20 to a stadium of 9,000—to achieve success. 

The Grow Group and of Grunder Landscaping Co.

Bless the Broken Road: Mistakes and Lessons Learned over Nearly 40 Years in Landscaping

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As Grunder Landscaping Co. celebrates its 40th year in business, Marty Grunder has reflected on all of the mistakes they’ve made along the way. You may have heard him joke before that if we were to hold an event to talk about all of his failures, it would be a 3-year course.

The Keys to Success: Using Training and Incentives to Set Your Team Up for Success

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Getting your team to do what you want and need them to do starts with training them on how to do it. In this session, Marty Grunder will share how they train and motivate their team at Grunder Landscaping Co. to accomplish all jobs on time and under budget. This session is for owners who want to build a culture where everyone is working towards the same goals. 

Hunting for Enhancements: What Marty Looks for When He Walks a Maintenance Property

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Walk through Grunder Landscaping Co. properties with us in this session: We'll show you what we look for when we do site visits at both a commercial and residential property and will highlight the additional projects we would recommend to each client. You'll leave this session with tips for finding enhancement-type projects to drum up more work without expanding your client base.