Helping businesses make more money with less stress.  
Ian has helped start-ups survive those first challenging years and re-tuned older established businesses for an improved bottom line. He has been through family-transition challenges, strategic planning retreats, worked with architects and engineers, designed retail sites from the ground up, developed their budgets, and trained salespeople, managers and buyers.

All this in-the-trenches experience, working with some of the best independent retailers in the business has made him a sought after speaker throughout North America and Europe. Ian’s insights are also valuable to numerous suppliers and marketers trying to penetrate the garden category or improve their position, and he has been on retained by some of the most well-known brand names in the industry.

In 2011 Ian began working with National Gardening Association to analyze and write a report on the data collected in their annual National Gardening Survey. Ian’s writing and speaking on the consumer trends and behavioral changes in this excellent report have become a strong feature of his current work for the garden business.