February 21, 2025
Peer to Peer Spring Summit 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 4 PM
Landscape Ontario | 7856 Fifth Line South, Milton
Save the date for this one-day conference hosted at the Landscape Ontario in Milton, Ont. Designed for landscape business owners and key managers, you'll leave inspired and armed with the knowledge and tools to take your business to the next level.
Registration:
$250 + tax per person
REGISTER
Agenda
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration and Networking |
| 8:30-10:30 | Introduction, Leveraging Apprenticeships and Lean Practices — Mark Bradley |
| 10:30-11:30 | Panel Discussion: How great policies, SUB, accommodation and lean practices support cost savings, employee retention, and increased productivity — facilitated by Joe Salemi |
| 11:30-12:30 | Networking Lunch |
| 12:30-2:00 | Breakout Session Round 1: (Choose 1 of 4 sessions)
• Great Policies and How to Create Them: Create an accommodations policy
— WSPS • Seasonal SUB Strategies: Learn how to prepare a SUB plan — Carla Bailey • Accommodating Great Talent: Create a core behaviour plan — Mike Pennington • Lean Practices Workshop: How they can boost retention and your bottom line — Mark Bradley |
| 2:00-3:30 | Networking |
| 3:30-5:00 | Breakout Session Round 2: (Choose 1 of 4 sessions)
• Great Policies and How to Create Them: Create an accommodations policy
— WSPS • Seasonal SUB Strategies: Learn how to prepare a SUB plan — Carla Bailey • Accommodating Great Talent: Create a core behaviour plan — Mike Pennington • Lean Practices Workshop: How they can boost retention and your bottom line — Mark Bradley |
| 5:00-6:00 | Reception |
Mark Bradley
Redefining leadership in landscaping
Some people get into landscaping because they need a job. Mark Bradley built a career, then an empire, then a movement.
It started at 18 years old, fresh out of high school, working as an apprentice in the nuclear industry. No business degree. No formal training, just an obsession with getting better, faster, smarter and more efficient.
By his mid-20s, Mark wasn’t just working in landscaping, he was running the crews. By age 30, he was building one of the largest, most profitable landscape companies in North America. What started as an owner-operator business scaled to a top 100 landscape company, pushing $50M+ in revenue — not through sheer hustle, but by building systems that made success repeatable, allowing other people to grow and scale the business with him.
Then came the next challenge. Mark wasn’t just frustrated by inefficiencies in his own business — he saw an entire industry struggling with the same problems. So, in 2009, he built LMN, the first landscape business management software designed by a contractor, for contractors. Over the next decade, thousands of businesses used LMN to master job costing, improve efficiency, and scale profitably.
But Mark doesn’t believe in maintaining what’s built. He believes in evolution.
Today, as the founder of LeanScaper, Mark is focused on the future of landscaping — beyond just numbers, beyond just growth. He’s helping owners go from operators to CEOs, from chaos to control, from revenue to real success, creating an industry that provides apprenticeships and fair wages for everyone involved.
35 years in the industry: Apprentice, operator, CEO, software founder, industry disruptor.
Mark Bradley doesn’t just talk about running a better business. He built one, rebuilt another, and is now transforming thousands.