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Home service business owners and management teams, we built this event for you.
Gary Vee is going to kick things off with his lessons on leadership, then you’ll jump into 12 sessions focused on People, Profit, and Process featuring all the speakers below. Julie and Zach Ertz will close the day with their advice on building a resilient mindset. During the entire event, you can network live with other business leaders who get what you’re building.
If you missed out on the event, check out our video library for all the session recordings.
We have winners for our Jobber Professional Development Day prizes!
Attendees were automatically entered to win one of five prizes to help put their business-building learnings into action.
Classic Pools and Spas will be putting a set of team tablets to work
Oostanaula Outdoors will be checking Jobber on a new iPhone 12
Clutterguys Vancouver will be driving around town with a fresh truck wrap
Postech Screwpiles Muskoka will be sending out quotes on a new laptop
Mold Authority will be outfitting their team in brand new uniforms
Thank you to all our winners and all our event attendees for supporting #JobberPDday 2021!
Speakers
Gary Vaynerchuk
Serial entrepreneur and 5-time New York Times best selling author
Gary Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. VaynerX also includes Gallery Media Group, which houses women’s lifestyle brand PureWow and men’s lifestyle brand ONE37pm. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports, cannabis-focused branding and marketing agency Green Street and restaurant reservations app Resy. Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water. Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber. Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 100 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.
Zach Ertz
Zach Ertz, NFL Superstar, Super Bowl LII Champion, and Pro Bowler, scored the winning touchdown in the 2017-18 Super Bowl. Zach and his wife Julie Ertz, Olympian and two-time World Cup champion for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, met in college when Julie was at Santa Clara University, and Zach was at nearby Stanford. Married in 2017, they share a love for athletics and competition. Zach and Julie will share their advice for developing and strengthening the most important personal qualities both athletes and entrepreneurs at the top of their game need to succeed and power through challenges and setbacks.
Julie Ertz
Julie Ertz, a highly decorated midfielder for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, was a member of the 2015 and 2019 World Cup championship team, and the 2017 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year.Julie and her husband Zach Ertz, NFL Superstar, Super Bowl LII Champion, and Pro Bowler, met in college when Julie was at Santa Clara University, and Zach was at nearby Stanford. Married in 2017, they share a love for athletics and competition.In their session, Julie and Zach will share their advice for developing and strengthening the most important personal qualities both athletes and entrepreneurs at the top of their game need to succeed and power through challenges and setbacks.
Mike Michalowicz
Mike Michalowicz simplifies business. Mike has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful entrepreneurial strategies to you. By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz (pronounced mi-‘kal-o-wits) had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. He is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. And his latest, arguably most impactful discovery, is Fix This Next. In Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions). Fabled author, Simon Sinek deemed Mike Michalowicz “…the top contender for the patron saint of entrepreneurs.”
Sam Pillar
Throughout his 15-year career as a software developer, management consultant and founder, Sam has embodied the entrepreneurial spirit. While working alongside companies to understand their problems and build software solutions to help them move faster, he started to see a trend: a lot of inefficient, manual work was being done by small home service businesses, and it was slowing down an industry that everyone in the community needed. This led Sam to the idea that software could do more than fix a single process problem—it could modernize processes for the entire small home service business industry. Fast forward several years and Sam is the driving force behind Jobber, one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, leading the team as it builds products that transform the way small home service businesses operate.
Kristen Hadeed
Kristen Hadeed is the founder of Student Maid, a successful cleaning company that has employed thousands of students over the last decade and is known for building the next generation of leaders, and author of Permission to Screw Up, where she reflects on her biggest leadership mistakes and lessons. From her first leadership disaster, which resulted in three-quarters of her workforce quitting on the spot, to handing over day-to-day operations to a leadership team comprised of millennials, Kristen has learned what it takes to create a work environment that brings out the best in people of all ages. Student Maid is known for its culture of trust, accountability and empowerment. Many of the students who have worked with Student Maid have gone on to run their own businesses and receive highly sought-after positions in companies around the world. Kristen and Student Maid have been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX, Inc., NBC, TIME, and Forbes. Her first TED Talk has more than three million views on YouTube, and she has since joined Simon Sinek’s Optimist team.
Crystal Washington
Crystal Washington works with organizations that want to leverage technology to increase profits and productivity!As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal takes complex social media, app, and web topics and makes them easy to understand and accessible for everyday people.Crystal’s clients comprise Fortune 500 companies including Google, Microsoft, and GE, and as a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe.As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she has appeared in numerous publications including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is regularly called on by major television networks as a tech expert. Crystal is the author of the books One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.
Keith Kalfas
Keith Kalfas is the social media world’s leading landscaping and window cleaning influencer and one of the most-watched and followed personal development coaches in his industry. His videos have been viewed 20 million times, 200,000 people see his posts each week online and 2,500-plus students have taken his online courses at the Keith Kalfas Academy. Because of these results, Keith has been featured in Turf Magazine, Window Cleaning Magazine UK, and has been invited to speak at The Huge Convention, the UAMCC, IGNITE, CSA and several other industry events. Keith also hosts his very own sold-out live event each year in Michigan called the ‘Marketing ROI.’ Keith has written and self-published two books including How to Start a Landscaping Business and The Window Cleaning Blueprint and is scheduled to release his new book on small business marketing soon. He is now a regularly requested speaker in the small business world and plans on giving many inspirational talks in the near future.
Jorge Ortega
As part of the Global Social Impact team at Visa, Jorge is responsible for setting the strategic direction and execution of programs with the goal of advancing digital equity/inclusion and economic growth to enable SMBs to grow and thrive. Those initiatives include financial education, business skills and payment solutions that enable participation and allows small business owners to benefit from digital commerce. Originally from Mexico and based in Miami, Jorge has also founded three small businesses in the US and Mexico. Before joining Visa, Jorge spent more than 10 years in consumer marketing in Mexico and Canada.
Melissa Maker
Melissa Maker is an accidental cleaning expert—because she hates to clean! In 2006, she launched Clean My Space, a cleaning service in her hometown of Toronto, Canada. In 2011, she decided to create digital content to help drive bookings by launching the Clean My Space YouTube channel. Since then, the channel has amassed over 230 million video views and over 1.6 million subscribers along with a healthy Instagram following and busy website. She also founded a microfiber cleaning tools company in 2016, called Maker's Clean. While Melissa has delivered her expert advice on cleaning products, tools, and DIY substitutes for over ten years, she wasn’t always a cleaning pro and understands that people are looking for practical, time-saving solutions to everyday problems. Melissa’s fans tune in on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest advice on their cleaning needs and follow Melissa’s life as an entrepreneur, foodie and mother of a toddler.
Kory Ballard
Kory Ballard is a lawn care industry leader with 30 years of experience between founding and running Perficut Site Management, and now focusing on Ballard Inc which influences and contributes to the industry in many ways including building new innovative products, representing great brands on its e-commerce platform, podcasting, consulting, motivating, and elevating the industry. From starting Perficut Site Management with a moped and a lawn mower to building it into a Top 125 national company with three locations, he has been through all of the struggles and challenges of growing a company. Today, Kory has stepped out of the day-to-day of Perficut Site Management and spends much of his time on the Ballard Inc e-commerce business selling accessories to the lawn and landscape industry.
Shawn Van Dyke
Shawn Van Dyke is a construction business coach, an international keynote speaker, and author of two books: Profit First for Contractors and The Paperwork Punch List. Most contractors are not profitable which makes them feel uncertain about what they need to do to grow their construction businesses. Shawn believes construction business owners should be as good at business as they are at their craft. That's why, after twenty plus years of owning and operating multiple construction businesses, Shawn became a construction business coach. He now works with construction business owners, executives, and managers all over the world and shows them how to stop losing profits and wasting time. Shawn helps contractors get their lives back. He is the founder of the Built to Build Academy™ which creates confident construction business owners through on demand training and coaching programs so you can make more money, stop worrying, and get your life back.
Danny Kerr
Danny is one of North America's top contracting thought-leaders, assisting hundreds of entrepreneurs every year to build kick-ass, profitable businesses.Coming from modest roots, Danny was fuelled with a desire to do better, be better. He started his own contracting business when he was just a teen and by the age of 20 he was leading a franchise company where in just one year he grew sales by 225%.It was then that Danny cultivated his vision: to help transform the world of contracting and assist other entrepreneurs to move past adversity and reach their full potential.For the next six years he focussed on scaling businesses before finally co-founding Breakthrough Academy (BTA), seeing it as a way to open horizons for other contracting entrepreneurs. Danny's philosophy to work hard, stay humble and push boundaries continues to drive him. That, and his no BS approach; He also loves the 'f' word: Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness, Financials that is, and in that order. Danny lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia, with his wife and three beautiful daughters. When he's not helping prospective BTA members, you will find him climbing more mountains, only this time in his Jeep. Breakthrough Academy works with over 300 contractors across the continent, managing over $1 billion worth of revenue, and was rated Canada’s 106th fastest growing company by The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business in 2020.
Chant Singvongsa
Chant Singvongsa is the owner of Singvongsa Landscaping based in Jackson, Minnesota. A serial entrepreneur, Chant started many of his businesses after he would have a problem, solve it, and then realize other people were probably facing the same problems. In addition to his landscaping business, a few of the businesses he’s started include Wishy Washy Laundromat, iMobile Solutions, Singvongsa Photography, and Chant’s Daily Hustle—his embroidery and media business. Chant started Singvongsa Landscaping in 2009, after overcoming his struggle with alcohol and drugs. He realized the hustle was in his blood, and he discovered his passion for sharing what he was learning about entrepreneurship along the way and started a YouTube channel—Chant’s Daily Hustle—where he connects with over 26k subscribers and shows them what it takes to start from nothing, build a successful business, and positively influence others.
Leslie Shiner
Leslie Shiner—author, speaker, and trainer—has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a financial and management consultant. She is the owner of The ShinerGroup, a consulting firm providing top-level financial and management consulting for the construction industry helping businesses maximize profits and gain financial control. She is the author of numerous publications including “A Simple Guide to Turning a Profit as a Contractor.” Ms. Shiner’s post-graduate education focused on Finance and Accounting culminating in an MBA from U.C. Berkeley. She is honored as a CPA Practice Advisor Top 25 Thought Leader and is a Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor and Sage Certified Consultant. She frequently speaks at industry conferences and continues to receive high praise for her ability to make financial management interesting, understandable, and even entertaining.
Phil Sarros
Phil Sarros brings over 20 years of landscaping and design experience and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Akron in Ohio. In addition to co-founding Steel Toe University, he is President of Sarros Landscaping, the author of the ‘18 Part Paver Installation Course,’ and has created over 200 courses and webinars covering topics in all areas of small business operations. Phil is actively involved in speaking, education and consultation to all trade industries serving residential clients. Phil's landscaping work has been featured multiple times on HGTV and he has trained thousands of small business contractors on how to run their businesses more efficiently and more profitably.
Katrina Teeple
Katrina has been transforming the way her clients' lives flow from their homes to their offices for more than 15 years. She refers to herself as a Life Optimizer±one part Organizational Coach and one part System Creator. She is Founder & CEO of two companies: Operation Organization, a professional organizing company and Styled For Order, an interior design firm which services clients in Los Angeles, Dallas and New Orleans. Her consulting client list includes: Cisco Systems, Keller Williams, Northwestern Mutual, Hatch Beauty and The LA Kings. She regularly works with high profile clients as well as Mompreneurs, executives and home owners that just want their house to stay beautifully organized! Katrina is a brand ambassador for The Container Store and her tips for organized living have been featured in publications such as Real Simple, Domino, Southern Living Magazine, The Knot, sheknows.com, food52.com, sabrinasoto.com, styleyoursenses.com, Ciao Bella, diynetwork.com, groknation.com and kveller.com
Kurt Stenberg
Kurt was a career first responder diagnosed with PTSD in 2017. Forced to find a new path that balanced mental health needs as well as provide a flexible schedule, Kurt became an arborist and an entrepreneur. Cochrane Tree Care Ltd grossed over $100 thousand in its first year with help from Kurt’s extremely supportive wife. They only serviced their small community and created a niche market that previously relied on big city crews to come into town. Kurt first built a brand through social media then applied his creativity towards collaborations and local advertising. He was able to secure sponsorships on Instagram through various companies to offset the cost of new equipment. He backed everything up with specific education and mentors to support his new found passion.
Tamara Ard
Tamara Ard is the co-owner of My Amazing Maid, in Columbus, Georgia. Tamara and her husband and business partner, Royce Ard, are currently traveling the country as Nomad Entrepreneurs, using Jobber and other cloud based software systems to operate and manage their business remotely. My Amazing Maid is Tamara’s second home service business, her first being a handyman business she ran from 2006 until selling it in 2018. She founded My Amazing Maid in 2013, and their team of cleaners and team leads can reach nearly 20 people in size—a large workforce to maintain in an industry known for hard-to-find employees and high turnover. Tamara and Royce have developed career tracks and employee engagement programs to attract and retain team members which they’ll be speaking about in their workshop. Tamara has over 30 years of experience in training and development, as well as non-profit management. In addition to her Masters in Social Work, Tamara has received international certifications in Operations Management and Performance Assessment from Cities and Guilds, London England. She has managed and overseen training and development for the National Arthritis Foundation, The Georgia Academy, as well as the National Center for Professional Certification.
Royce Ard
Royce Ard is the co-owner of My Amazing Maid, in Columbus, Georgia. Royce and his wife and business partner, Tamara Ard, are currently traveling the country as Nomad Entrepreneurs, using Jobber and other cloud based software systems to operate and manage their business remotely. Royce joined the My Amazing Maid team in 2014, and their team of cleaners and team leads can reach nearly 20 people in size—a large workforce to maintain in an industry known for hard-to-find employees and high turnover. Tamara and Royce have developed career tracks and employee engagement programs to attract and retain team members which they’ll be speaking about in their workshop. Royce has a degree in Multinational Business and has over 25 years of experience working in hi-tech industries. Prior to joining his wife Tamara at My Amazing Maid, Royce was the vice president of marketing for Synapse Wireless, the creator of an operating system for companies producing products for the (IoT) Internet of Things marketplace. Before that, Royce spent 12 years working for a large regional cable TV and broadband provider, first as General Manager and also as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Christine Hodge
Christine Hodge is the CEO of Clearview Washing, LLC. She joined the team in 2017 to assist in office operations and quickly worked her way up. She is very passionate about processes and procedures in order to create efficiency, and since Christine joined the company it has grown over 300% in gross revenue. Prior to joining the Clearview Washing team, she spent 10 years specializing in legal operations in the pharmaceutical industry, and this focus on operations informs her work at Clearview Washing. From customer service, to hiring, to sales, to field operations, she has created and documented specific workflows in order to streamline employee processes and create opportunities for healthy company growth. Teamwork is her number one priority, and Clearview Washing’s success would not be possible without an outstanding team contributing their individual strengths. Working with founders Fred Hodge Jr and Fred Hodge Sr, they’ve implemented employee titles, progress reports, reporting structures, and more to support their thriving team.
Steven Knight
Steven Knight is a Partner at Mosaic Home Services Ltd., an Edmonton based incubator of home-improvement brands. Together the partners at Mosaic are on a mission to build Canada's largest home-improvement franchise network. Since 2016 Steven and his team have invested in 10 home-improvement brands, growing each by an average of 58% per year. Mosaic’s business model focuses on helping entrepreneurs in the home-improvement sector grow franchisable business models by building in recurring revenue models, regimented systems and processes, and infectious corporate cultures. Unlike venture capital funds, Mosaic’s partners work with their investments every single day, recognizing that building the model is only half the challenge; building the entrepreneur is paramount. Steven is an active member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, YEC, and The Global Shapers Communities. His thought leadership in the small and medium-sized enterprises and home-improvement industries has been featured internationally in Forbes, among other publications.
Nick Keyko
Nick is the host of season one of Built By You, Jobber’s podcast where business owners share how they stay focused when entrepreneurship gets real—find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Nick is also the Director of Marketing at Jobber, and is very excited for the first Jobber Professional Development Day, custom-built for home service businesses after years of the Jobber team hosting dozens of in-person and online events and having hundreds of conversations with home service professionals to understand what pain points and areas of growth we could cover in one dedicated day of learning.
Moly Milosovic
Moly is a member of Jobber’s Community team, working on initiatives like #JobberPDday, networking events, and the Jobber Entrepreneurship Group on Facebook that bring home service entrepreneurs together online and in person. The excitement our advocates have for Jobber and our community (see it for yourself at @jobber on Instagram) is proof that a shared passion for home service entrepreneurship is a powerful thing to build a community around.
