Client Case Study
Alpine Nurseries
Operating for over 40 years, Alpine Nurseries is a multi-award-winning business, supplying retail, residential and commercial customers including landscape architects, designers and local government.
Alpine is part of the largest wholesale production nursery group in Australia, offering consistent quality, service, scale and variety of green life to the landscape industry.
With three sites and a growing area of over 150 acres, Alpine continues to expand and increase growing capacity and prides itself on year-round availability of the broadest range and volume of quality plants on the east coast of Australia.
Alpine’s General Manager, Dan Ewings, is not only passionate about growing and distributing high quality plants and delivering exceptional service, he’s also a zealot for growing highly capable and professional people across the business. As a young leader and aspiring manager, he took the opportunity to participate in a frontline Leadership Development course with Leadership management Australia (LMA). His experience and the successes he achieved as a result lead to a longer-term relationship with LMA. Fast forward to today and Alpine has invested in a wide range of LMA experiences for team members at different stages of their careers.
“The most rewarding part of giving people the opportunity to be part of an LMA program comes when they not only successfully complete it, but also when they return to work after each workshop brimming with ideas and tools, eager to try new things and drive improvement and results – to make the place better, more productive and profitable and most importantly, more sustainable for us all”, says Dan.
Matching the right course to the individual is the starting point and Dan delights in the regular conversations he has with his trusted key LMA contact, Steve Rowland. “Over the years, we’ve seen how providing the right learning opportunity delivers exceptional outcomes – whether it be a significant improvement in productivity, a solid uplift in sales outcomes, or enhanced customer service experiences – it’s all positive when we get it right – which is most of the time thanks to Steve and the LMA team.”
Clearly when team members are on the courses that match their job roles and expectations, the sky’s the limit on what can be achieved. Dan cites a few notable examples of incredible transformations flowing from an LMA experience:
- Andrew Hayes – completed the COL with Alpine Nurseries and is now working with sister company, Andreasens Green.
- Ryan Welsh – completed the COL with Alpine Nurseries and is now Operations Manager.