Bob is a lifelong industry professional, with experience in all aspects of the HVAC industry. Bob grew up in the business working for the family heating and air company at a young age. He since held management and sales positions with several major manufacturers and distributors, focusing on growing sales by growing his customers businesses. He has also owned two HVAC contracting businesses, selling one to a fortune 100 company.
Bob has worked and consulted with literally thousands of HVAC contractors and has a drive to help contractors grow their business and achieve their goals.
Alumnus of the University of Georgia and holds a non-restricted conditioned air license in the state of Georgia.
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Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers
In this masterclass, we’ll unpack each of the predictable stages of HVAC business growth – from solo tech with a truck to a confident, visionary leader with a team that runs the day-to-day. Whether you’re just getting traction or preparing to scale beyond $10M, this roadmap helps you identify where you are, where you’re headed, and what to prioritize next. Walk away with clarity, confidence, and tools to take the next step in building a business that works with or without you.
Attendees will learn how to overcome the top traps that most contractors struggle with in each of these stages:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers
Every great business owner has key performance indicators they monitor to manage their business. It’s one of the essential ingredients to achieving the time and money freedom most entrepreneurs dream about when they decide to open their own company. But the challenge often times is determining what those KPIs should be. Choosing the wrong KPIs, or not establishing them at all, could have a disastrous effect on your business. Join us as we identify and review the top 10 critical KPIs that every HVAC business should be monitoring so that you can sleep easy at night knowing you’ve got the right structure in place to effectively monitor your company’s overall health and performance.
By the end of this masterclass, you’ll be able to determine:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers
One of the biggest mistakes contractors make is not pricing their service labor rate correctly. If you are not priced correctly, bad things are going to happen. What you might not know is that there is a proven formula for properly setting your service labor rate to ensure profitability and long term sustainability.
The formula involves 5 main components:
Join us as we walk step-by-step through the entire process for accurately setting your service labor rate, factoring in all of the necessary components so that your company has the best opportunity for long term success and profitability.


Who Should Attend: Call Center/Dispatch Managers
Service agreements have been around for many decades, and consistently companies may struggle to create value for homeowners and transact to the metrics we all desire to maximize profitability and client experience. If we think of service agreements as a marketing process, that lens allows a clearer picture about the lifetime value of a customer, and additional referrals and sales. Most would agree it’s generally easier to transact with an existing customer, and becomes even more profitable when we understand how to build a larger database of club clients, to the optimum 1,500 service agreements per million dollars of revenue. It is then we can market less expensively, and unlock the profitability and ultimately company value.
During this presentation, you will:


Who Should Attend: Call Center/Dispatch Managers
As summer winds down, contractors have a critical opportunity to build momentum heading into the fall and winter seasons. In this session, we’ll explore the strategies and action steps needed to maximize the opportunities already in your business and ensure your team is prepared to hit the ground running.
Contractors will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers
The best service calls don’t happen by accident. In this session, contractors will walk through the complete service call process—from preparation and communication to diagnosis, presenting options, documentation, and follow-up. Participants will learn how each step contributes to a better customer experience while driving higher average tickets, improved conversion rates, and greater technician consistency.
Participants will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers, Install Managers, Accounting Managers, Call Center/Dispatch Managers
Great years don’t happen by accident—they are designed. In this session, contractors will learn how to build a strategic plan and budget for next year that provides a clear roadmap for achieving their goals and turning their vision into measurable results.
Contractors will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Human Resources Managers, Service Managers, Sales Managers, Install Managers, Call Center/Dispatch Managers
Struggling to find great people? The challenge may not be recruiting—it may be retention. In this session, contractors will learn how to determine whether they have a recruiting problem, a retention problem, or both. We’ll explore how to position your company as THE place to work and create a recruiting strategy that attracts the right people while building a culture that keeps them.
Contractors will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Sales Managers, Call Center/Dispatch Managers
Your company has already invested in generating leads and creating opportunities. The question is: How much of that opportunity are you leaving behind?
In this session, contractors will discover how a consistent, strategic follow-up process can turn missed opportunities into revenue. We’ll explore what to follow up on, when to follow up, how to follow up, and how to create a culture of proactive outreach that ensures valuable opportunities don’t slip through the cracks.
Participants will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Service Managers, Sales Managers
When customers say, “Your price is too high,” the answer isn’t always a lower price—it’s a better presentation of value. In this session, contractors will learn how to differentiate their company, overcome price objections, and create a buying experience that helps homeowners make confident decisions without relying on discounts and price alone.
Contractors will learn:


Who Should Attend: Business Owners, Sales Managers, Service Managers, Call Center/Dispatch Managers
Small improvements can create BIG results. In this interactive masterclass, participants will discover how making strategic, incremental improvements in five key areas of their business can produce significant gains in growth, profitability, and operational performance.
Contractors will identify opportunities within their own businesses and develop a customized action plan focused on improving five critical KPIs. Rather than leaving with theory alone, participants will walk away with practical strategies they can implement immediately to create measurable results.
Participants will learn:



Running a contracting business can often be day-to-day, chaotic, and time-consuming with little visibility to the big picture. Key performance indicators (KPls) act as a guide for owners and managers to keep focused on the overall key measurements in the midst of chaos.
Key Points Covered:
Take-Aways:
This course will help the TM have educated conversations with their dealers on the overall important company operations that need to be measured. This will also allow the TM to discuss goals and how their dealers are progressing against those goals. TMs will also receive a copy of the presentation and supporting documents for this class.



This sales course for TMs is specific to real-life situations that contractors and TMs face each day. This class will help TMs position tough questions and conversations in a way that positions them as problem solvers and resource providers for their dealers. This course also incorporates light role-play discussions on how to practice these conversations.
Topics Covered:
Contractor/TM Relationships
Financial Motivators for Contractors
Creating a TM Brand
Take-Aways:
This course is designed to help TMs understand the challenges that dealers face and how to change their style to always put the dealer’s agenda first and create a situation where the dealer views their TM as a valuable asset that creates loyalty. TMs will also receive a copy of the presentation and supporting documents for this class.



Many contractors struggle with understanding their financial statements. Questions often arise around “How do I know if I am making money?” or “What departments are making money and which ones are not?” This course will help TMs understand the basics of what their dealers need to know in terms of how to have accurate financial statements and what they are telling them.
We will discuss the importance of departmentalization and the role that overhead plays in the contracting business. TMs will walk away with an understanding of how to coach dealers in setting up the proper chart of accounts and allocating overhead so that they can manage their business through key performance indicators (KPls). Understanding of the financial structure and KPls will give TMs insight on how to help their dealers understand which departments are performing or underperforming as well as providing the solutions to help them operationally to maximize profitability by department.
Key Points Covered:
Take-Aways:
This course is designed to help take away the mystery and fear of what goes on with a contractor’s financial statements. The class is also designed to help the TMs have conversations with their dealers around profitability and to do it with confidence. All financial statements and budgeting tools will be covered for the TMs to use on the Contractor University website. TMs will also receive a copy of the presentation and supporting documents for this class.



New business is crucial to a distributor's long-term sustainable growth. Business that goes away year over year is known as attrition. In this session, you will learn techniques that will help you create an organized system that will keep prospective dealers in your pipeline to overcome that attrition. This training covers every step along the journey. From the basics of identifying who the potential prospects are, through the conversion and onboarding stages, to maximizing the full potential of growth. This session will guide you in providing real-life techniques that will position you as a value-added resource professional.
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Take-Aways:
This training will help Territory Managers design a systematic approach to new business prospecting rather than leaving the process to chance. It will also help Territory Managers understand the value of getting other team members involved with new business planning, overcoming objections, conversion and onboarding. Once a Territory Manager completes this training, they should have a very high level of confidence and understanding of what it takes to be successful in adding new business accounts to their portfolio.