electricaL BUSINESS COACHING
What are the fastest growing electrical companies doing.. that you’re not?
Systemize your electrical business for growth through prebuilt processes, credentialed coaches, and a community of high-performing peers.
No BS. All results.
After 12 months in the program the average Breakthrough Academy Member sees...
Internal data analysis from over 3,299 companies coached for an average of 29 months in the program.
Is growing your electrical business exhausting you?
When you’re an electrical contractor, and you’re great at what you do, work floods in, and operations spin out of control.
Clients and GC’s badger you with never-ending questions
Your techs call you 100 times a day, forcing you to work IN your business (not ON it)
And a lack of skilled tradespeople makes building the dream team feel like an uphill battel
All the while, fly-by-nighters are constantly underbidding you
That’s why we created Breakthrough Academy.
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Business networking on steroids.
Crowdsourced solutions, healthy competition, and endless inspiration all await you inside Breakthrough Academy’s one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial ecosystem.
BTA opened our eyes to what owning and running a trades business should be. We didn't know what we didn't know before BTA. The coaching and interaction with other like minded owners is amazing. The atmosphere is positive and encouraging, and your coach takes an active interest in your personal and professional well being. We've been with BTA for 3 years, but I can't remember what running our business was like before them.
As my electrical business is grew, I knew I needed to get professional help to grow it in the right direction. Working with BTA has been a game changer! Everyone at BTA is beyond helpful and a pleasure to work with. The community they have built with business-minded entrepreneurs is invaluable. Choosing to work with Breakthrough Academy has been one of my best business decisions yet!
All I can say is I wish I found BTA and my coach about 10 years ago.
Proof and results
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Nik Palladino
Ryan Lermitte
Van City Electric
Chris O'Donohue
Brad Gordon
Mike Van Capelle
Nik and Sam started painting houses to pay their way through college. Growth brought along serious challenges, though. Their business had matured, and headcount had grown, but their systems hadn't. After a few years of turning away work they couldn't get to, they realized they needed to overhaul their systems—badly.
By implementing a Strategic Plan, Goal Setting and Review (GSR) meetings, and an effective tech stack, Ryan was able to automate and delegate his way to a more strategic role in the company.
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing.
Uncover how Chris O'Donohue of Great Canadian Landscaping grew his profits and got his time back.
With the help of Breakthrough Academy, Brad has implemented high-impact business systems, including an organizational chart, employment agreements, and ideal candidate profiles to improve hiring.
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Mike Van Capelle
Ian Price
Jason Hoke
Like most builders, Mike Van Capelle started his entrepreneurial journey with a passion for quality construction and the guts to take the plunge. A few years later, though, he was pulling his hair out.
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jason Hoke
Scraping together every dollar to his name (and then some) Jason acquired A Cut Above Landscape from his previous employer. To say his first few years were a "grind" would be a gross understatement.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Ian Price
Forest Street Builders’ first few years were rocky. Ian was the classic "One-Man Band," estimating, selling, project managing, forming, framing, finishing—he was doing ALL THE THINGS.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Jon Drew
Jon Drew always wanted to work for himself, and when he started Refined Exteriors with a long-time friend, he knew he'd made the right choice. But, the growth of the company led to new challenges.
Don’t take our word for it, hear what our Members have to say.
Cory Byron
When VanCity Electric owner Cory Byron first joined Breakthrough Academy, he was struggling to make his business profitable. The company was growing and the work kept coming, but without understanding the ins and outs of budgeting, job costing or financial controls, Cory found himself doing side jobs outside the business just to make ends meet.
Hashtag Plumbing
Brent and Chloë Mooney
From the outside, Hashtag Plumbing owners Brent and Chloë Mooney were running a successful 6-figure plumbing business. On the inside, things felt a lot more hectic. Brent wore every hat in the business. One time, he worked 68 hours in a 3 day period. When they found themselves with $1MM in revenue and no money in the bank, Brent and Chloë knew it was time to ask for help.
Frequently asked questions about Breakthrough Academy.
An electrical contractor business coach helps you build systems by giving you an outside opinion and someone to hold you to it. You got good at the trade. Electrical business coaching is how the business behind it gets held to the same standard.
Usually because the price was set by what the customer might pay rather than the margin the job actually needed. From there electrical company profit leaks in three more places: change orders nobody captured, material costs that moved between the bid and the buy and labor hours nobody compared to the estimate until the job was already closed. Electrical business profit isn't found in more work. It's found in knowing, while you're still on the job, whether the one you're on is winning or losing.
The electrical business systems that make a new electrician profitable rather than just busy. Before you hire: an estimating process with a required margin, written scope and change order standards, labor tracked against the estimate and a foreman who knows exactly what they're accountable for. Add defined roles and employment agreements before the headcount, not after. More electricians don't fix weak electrical company systems. They just run them on more jobs at the same time.
You grow an electrical business without working more by making sure the answer already exists before someone calls you to ask. Scope boundaries and exclusions in writing, a change order rule your foremen can apply without calling you and labor tracked against the estimate weekly. Electrical company growth stops the moment the owner is the only decision maker in the company.
By treating electrical change orders as a process instead of a scramble at the end of the job. Define the original scope. Write the exclusions. Give the field one rule that doesn't need interpreting: out-of-scope work gets flagged, priced and approved before it happens. Added pot lights, fixture swaps and a layout change the homeowner mentioned on Tuesday aren't favors. Electrical contractor systems exist so nobody on your crew has to make that call standing in a customer's kitchen.
Yes. Breakthrough Academy's electrical business coaching works with residential, commercial, service and project-based electrical contractors, alongside contractors across other trades. We work with hungry, humble, smart contractors who are ready to implement. What matters is the pattern, not the panel schedule: margins you can't explain, change orders that go uncaptured and a field that still waits on you to make the call.
You’ve built something great. Let’s make it amazing.
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You have all the right pieces of the puzzle.
We’ve helped over 1,900 contractors just like you
You don’t need to build it by yourself.
The time is now.
Over 1,900 Contractors have built businesses they’re proud of with Breakthrough Academy.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
Systemizing your business is a lot of work. NOT doing it is even more.
If you’ve read this far, it's safe to say you’ve already tried a bunch of stuff.
