Ryan Malone is the Director of Maintenance at Malone’s Landscape Management, a company recognized twice on the INC. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Ryan works alongside his family to provide exceptional landscape maintenance services, focusing on company culture and helping others grow. Outside of work, he’s achieved personal milestones like summiting Mount Rainier multiple times, completing a full Ironman, and finishing a 100-mile ultramarathon. Ryan’s dedication to hard work, growth, and excellence is at the core of both his professional and personal life.

SHOW SUMMARY 

In this episode of Disruptive Successor, host Jonathan Goldhill welcomes Ryan Malone, the director of maintenance at Malone's Landscape, soon to be the COO. They discuss the challenges and strategies behind scaling a family business, especially the remarkable growth of their maintenance division. Ryan shares his journey from collegiate athlete to business leader, emphasizing the crossover between extreme endurance sports and business resilience. 

The episode provides insights into succession planning, team culture, and the importance of discipline and vision in achieving business goals. Plus, Ryan talks about balancing personal extreme endurance challenges with professional demands, underscoring how setting big goals and breaking them into manageable steps can lead to success both in business and personal endeavors.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Scaling a Family Business: Ryan shares strategies for growing a family business, focusing on the significant expansion of their maintenance division.
• Endurance Sports and Business Resilience: Drawing parallels between extreme endurance sports and business leadership, Ryan emphasizes how both require discipline, perseverance, and resilience.
• Succession Planning & Team Culture: Insights into preparing for leadership transitions and fostering a strong, family-like company culture that supports growth and success.
• Balancing Personal and Professional Goals: Ryan discusses how setting big, manageable goals in both personal endurance challenges and business ventures can lead to long-term success.

QUOTES

• "It's incredibly difficult. It’s not easy. It’s going to test you in every way possible. But really think about the life that company has helped you live."
• "Success sort of brings with it a sense of complacency. And so having the discipline and the drive, it's enough to do it in business or maybe in family life or in sports... but to combine those two seems unattainable."
• "It was almost like a warning that that wasn’t a good route... which I think ultimately gave me some fuel in the fire, to really make this thing work."
• "The family business is a great opportunity financially... It gives you much more job security than you're going to get in a non-family business."
• "I’ve been disciplined in different areas, but never had to put it all together at one time... it taught me a wealth of discipline."
• "When you change your life, you change your business as well.

Connect and learn more about Ryan Malone.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-malone-asm-55002499/

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