Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo will boast these educational sessions on business concern management on November 3 , 2021 .
Meet the presentersAmanda Thomsen is a plantsman , garden designer , keynote speaker , freelance author , backyard consultant , and source go in suburban Chicago . Amanda want to aid the world live more sustainably ( but without a load of effort and twice the fun ) . Amanda has been working in gardens , garden centers , and landscaping for the last 20 geezerhood . Her direction is bringing rule - breaking fun , a little kitsch , and a lot of humor into an industry that is often think of as fogyish and full of rule . Amanda address and give classes at all - sized events throughout the United States .
Gerson “ Gary ” Cortes ' 36 years of Lean Flow Manufacturing
experience includes actual implementations in factories where he influence as well as guiding Lean Flow implementations in companies around the domain . In 1998 Gary , with three other mate founded FlowVision , LLC , - The Lean Business & Supply Chain Consulting Group . He has enforce in companies that produce as few as 1 mathematical product a mean solar day in the semiconductor capital equipment manufacture to as many as 20 billion coins a twelvemonth at the US Mint . Gary ’s experience ranges from high tech , in high spirits volume to machine intensive , low volume , make - to - fiat industries .
Sue Adams is frailty - chair of Adams Greenhouses , a five - acre operation in Poughkeepsie , NY . Their largest score is the family ’s four garden centers which they supply with over four million garden plant . Sue works intimately with Adams ' marketing department , create special promotions , brochures , and website information . She is an award - winning container house decorator , graduate of Cornell University , serves on the New England Floriculture Board and is president of New York State Flower Industries . She is speak for her company’smerchandises who love verbalise to customers but are too timid to speak in front of a group .
Dan Snyder is the Recruiting and Training Coordinator for a family - owned business of over 1300 employees , Adams Fairacre Farms . He earned his unmarried man ’s point in Business Economics from SUNY Oneonta while working at Adams throughout his college didactics . When Dan graduated , he accepted an IT place with Adam to lead off his professional career . After a year of work in IT , Dan transplant to HR as the Training Coordinator , eventually guide on Recruitment and has been doing so for the preceding six years .
John Kennedy introduce to the gullible industriousness at a local , province , interior and outside level on all aspects of job — Customer Experience , Strategic & Succession Planning , Team Alignment , Productivity & Profitability , and Creating a Culture of Measurement & Metrics . His consulting employment has him in high need among reform-minded companies and associations in North America , Australia , and the Caribbean , along with gobs of associations , garden centers , growers , and landscapers in the immature industry . Visit John on - line atwww.johnkennedyconsulting.comto get a closer smell at his topics , videos , and client .
The biennial Northeast Greenhouse Conference & Expo is co - shop by New England Floriculture , Inc. - a radical of grower congresswoman from the Northeast , augment by University and Cooperative Extension staff in each Department of State who specialise in greenhouse crop and direction .
