Jim Paluch has been a longtime friend of Landscape Ontario and many of its member companies. For over three decades Jim devoted his career to helping companies improve their businesses and individuals grow and excel as professionals. 

We have a special privilege as Jim has agreed to step out of retirement for a day and join forces with Jacki Hart to co-facilitate this employer/manager mental health awareness event .  Jim is very interested in sharing the day with you, focusing on dissolving the stigma around feelings such as stress, anxiety and depression and will introduce a strategy that helps you build resilience to these emotions that everyone faces sooner or later. 

With the release of his most recent book, The Depressed Motivational Speaker, in 2022 and the audible version in 2023 Jim is uniquely qualified and inspired to once again, share his energy and expertise. 

Participants in this event will receive a free copy of his book.

Jacki is a sought-after landscape business coach, teacher and speaker. She brings a career full of landscape business and team management experience – both as a landscape contractor and as a business coach. Just like many of you, her passion for landscapes and plants far outweighed her business management talent for many years. Fast forward 30 years, and she leverages both her hard-learned business acumen plus her passion for helping entrepreneurs and managers, in everything she does for the landscape profession. As a professional speaker, workshop facilitator, teacher and business coach, Jacki focuses on helping others grow their businesses, their managers, and their success.  Jacki has over 200 published magazine articles to her credit and is Employers of Choice instructor for the GROW program.  In her spare time whenever that is… Jacki enjoys being in her kayak, on her bike or  snowshoes exploring the rivers and forests near her Muskoka, Ontario home.