Court Parker Recognized with Vistage Leadership Award

ATLANTA - Vistage announced Court Parker as the recipient of the Vistage Leadership Award. The Leadership Award celebrates a member’s enduring excellence in leadership, recognizing the discernible impact they’ve had on their business, Vistage group, and community.

Court Parker is the second-generation owner and CEO of Bug Busters, a full-service pest control company that has been serving the Southeast since October 1984. Since Parker took the helm 10+ years ago, Bug Busters has seen substantial growth, even in the face of great adversity.

In 2020 — during an unprecedented global pandemic — Bug Busters grew a whopping 19.78%. In the same year, Parker and his family decided to take advantage of the COVID-19 shutdowns and their newfound downtime by going on a 135-day roadtrip out west. During the trip, Parker conducted interviews with 15 different Pest Management Professionals — his industry peers. These interviews focused on how everyone was adapting in the face of the pandemic, and were chronicled, individually, on Pest Control Technology Magazine’s website in a series called “Cross Country PMP Conversations with Court.”

“I am both humbled and honored to receive the 2021 Leadership Award from Vistage—the organization that introduced me to key tools like Traction and the Entrepreneurial Operating System,” said Parker, “Being introduced to these tools, along with the help and incredible hard work of everyone at Bug Busters, has made my winning of this award possible.”

Vistage Master Chair Wade Bradley added, “In the era of COVID-19, it seems that leadership is so often defined by the ability to make lemonade from lemons — to succeed in the face of great adversity. Court Parker, CEO of Bug Busters, Inc., and 3+ year Vistage member, is the perfect example of this. In the face of an unprecedented global pandemic, he decided to do something different. While many merely maintained, Court defied the odds and refused to stagnate, taking what he learned in his tenure with Vistage and leveraging it to grow as a father, husband, executive, and leader.”