Jeremy Talboy

Jeremy started North Georgia Landscape Management the day after he graduated college, in the middle of a recession, with a pickup truck and a mower. He printed flyers, knocked on doors, and did every job himself — sales, books, repairs, and the actual work. Today he owns NGLM and serves as president of Georgian Landscape Design, running maintenance, enhancement, and design-build crews across metro Atlanta. The company has landed on the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s list of the largest commercial landscape firms in the market five years running — the goal he set for himself back in 2016.

He’s also candid about what it cost to get here. Jeremy will tell you that scaling without written standards was his most expensive mistake: hiring good people and handing them an objective worked fine when the company was small, and stopped working the moment there were more crews than he could stand on top of. He’s spent the last stretch building the SOPs and career paths he wishes he’d started at ten employees — so every role knows what’s expected, how to do it, and why. That’s the part of his story worth your 45 minutes.