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A compassionate coach
UAC member wins Lawn & Landscape's Employee of the Year award
Sean Blair’s affinity for fitness lets him lead crews through back-breaking work with expertise and empathy. Tommy Bursi, owner of Buford, UAC member Georgia-based Legendary Landscaping, admits that Sean Blair was “pretty green” when he brought him into the green industry back in 2018. Nowadays, Blair is Bursi’s go-to guy and second in command, serving as the company’s senior project manager. Bursi says its Blair’s dependability and driven nature that make him such a standout and a shoo-in for this award.
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“Sean is always going to do the right thing. Sean is going to be reliable and trustworthy and all those great character traits that we all aspire to have.” ~ Tommy Bursi
Formative fitness
What led Bursi and Blair to begin working together was one of Blair’s passions — fitness, specifically CrossFit, powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting.
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“I’ve known Sean Blair for a long time,” Bursi says. “We did CrossFit together and I met him at a CrossFit gym where he was a coach…. our paths just kept crossing over the years, and we built a friendship together. And I came to the realization one night that he’d be a great person to invest time into training and I felt like it wouldn’t be wasted.” Blair says fitness has been a fundamental part of his life for a long time. “I’ve competed and coached in Olympic weightlifting for 15 years and I still compete now in powerlifting and bodybuilding,” he says. “I still live the fitness lifestyle. I eat my six meal-prepped meals every day, I hydrate, and I still compete, so I am still very much into it. And I still coach on the side.” In fact, Blair says it’s his background in fitness that allows him to effectively lead Legendary’s crews each and every day. “It’s given me the ability to work with people better,” he says. “That experience of having to explain things and look at them from different points of view to have
