As Director of Education & Coaching at EGIA, Denise Swafford spearheads the strategy for the organization’s education and coaching programs through Contractor University and HVAC Distributor University. She leads EGIA’s internal coaching team and also serves as a featured educator and speaker, presenting workshops, webinars, and keynote sessions for contractors and other industry partners across North America.
Denise has decades of leadership experience in the home services industry, beginning in her family’s HVAC business before helping lead the company through a successful acquisition. She has since held key leadership roles with some of the industry’s largest and most successful organizations. Throughout her career, she has coached thousands of contractors, developed innovative training programs and business systems, and helped home service companies improve operations, grow revenue, and build lasting success.
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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:



What if the biggest improvements in your business didn’t require spending another dollar on marketing?
In the Little Hinges Swing Big Doors Masterclass, you’ll discover the three hidden operational “hinges” that can increase your business performance simply by optimizing the opportunities you already have. Using our Optimization Tool, you’ll learn practical, proven strategies to improve call conversion, increase average ticket value, and maximize every replacement opportunity through better processes, coaching, accountability, and execution.
This hands-on workshop provides actionable steps you can implement immediately to help your office staff, service technicians, and managers generate more revenue from your existing call volume—without spending a penny more in your marketing budget.
Small improvements in the right areas create extraordinary results, the key is knowing which hinges to adjust. This masterclass will show you exactly where to focus.