Green Profit Academy

Christeen Era, co-founder of the Green Profit Academy, is an accounting and consulting professional who has helped hundreds of small and mid-sized businesses improve their cash flow, post higher profits, and achieve stronger growth. In Profit First for Lawn Care and Landscape Companies, she provides an industry-specific toolbox to help the owners of these businesses manage their expenses and increase their gross profit margins to as high as 65%. Passionate about helping her clients flourish and grow, she is a certified Profit First Professional, Pumpkin Plan Strategist, Fix This Next Advisor, and QuickBooks Pro Advisor.

Steve Bousquet, founder of American Landscape and Lawn Science and co-founder of the Green Profit Academy (GPA), calls himself a “blue-collar executive.” He is a certified nurseryman, Gallup Internationally Certified Clifton Strengths Coach, Certified Engagement Champion, and Disney landscape designer. To save his business from going under in 2001, he devoted himself to financial business management, team building, people development, and strategic growth. He has consulted with dozens of lawn care and landscape companies, helping them identify target markets and plan growth strategies and explaining how to avoid making the same mistakes that he made.