

Opportunities are everywhere right now in the home service industry.
So is the competition. So are the obstacles. So are the struggles.
The stakes have never been higher for anyone running a company in the trades right now.
Which is why this might be the most important message you read this year.
Let me ask you something…
not revenue...
not vanity numbers...
but actual take-home money…
Because if you’re like most home service owners…
You don’t actually have a revenue problem. More revenue only magnifies your current issues.
You have a profit problem.
I was recently in a room with over 60 home service owners, and during the panel Q&A session, one owner shared his current struggles. Despite revenue of $12M, he was struggling to make payroll and was under constant cash-flow pressure.
Hardly living the dream.
Another owner couldn't step out of the firefighting, even though he knew it was killing his business. And one owner shared that she couldn't even step away for an afternoon at her daughter's school without worrying if things were falling apart, because every decision relied on her.
What's the point of building a business if it traps you in the process?
I'll say it again...you don't have a revenue problem...you have a profit problem.
And a lack of profit is what's preventing real growth in your business.
Most of us have been told lies about what it takes to grow a home service business.
Only if your business relies on you as the system.
What actually creates growth are:
Clear priorities
Defined roles
Decisions that get made once instead of daily
Processes that remove you from the bottleneck
The owners who grow well don’t work more.
They work on higher-value decisions and stop being needed everywhere at once.
Growth doesn’t require more of you. It requires better structure.
It requires high-quality hours, not high-volume hours.
Unstructured growth creates stress.
Intentional growth reduces it.
Stress usually comes from:
Firefighting and micromanaging
Unclear expectations and poor follow-up
Constant second-guessing and overthinking
Decisions being delayed or avoided
When you improve the quality of your thinking and decision-making, stress drops.
Not because the business got easier, but because you got clearer.
Clarity and quality thinking are stress reducers.
For most home service businesses, more leads coming into their broken systems and bad processes would only result in more lost revenue, bad customer experience, and damaged reputation.
Most businesses don’t need more leads to grow.
They need:
Better follow-up
Better conversion
Better pricing
Better capacity planning
Better use of the customers they already have
Growth often comes from tightening what’s already leaking, not pouring more money in.
Better decisions beat bigger budgets every day.
Chaos isn’t a growth problem. It’s a systems problem.
Chaos is friction, and friction stops growth in its tracks.
Chaos shows up when:
Processes live in people’s heads
Standards aren’t documented
Expectations change daily
Leaders solve the same problems over and over
When SOPs, scoreboards, and rhythms are installed, growth becomes repeatable instead of exhausting.
Structure doesn’t slow growth.
It protects it.
Here’s the truth most contractors never get told:
You don’t scale by pushing harder…
You scale by building better systems.
And profit doesn’t magically appear when sales go up…
Profit appears when:
Structure improves
Leadership improves
Decision-making improves
Operations improve
And Clarity improves
That brings us to a powerful question…
Let's talk about that.
If you own an HVAC, roofing, plumbing, landscaping, electrical, cleaning, pest control —
or any home service business…
...and you’re tired of always being:
🍾 The bottleneck
🧯 The firefighter
🛟 The safety net
If you’re working 60, 70, even 80 hours a week…
and it still feels fragile…
If money comes in but you’re not sure where it actually goes…
Then listen closely.
This is for home service business owners who are done with:
Burnout
Stress
Financial anxiety
And building a job that shackles instead of a lifestyle of freedom.
You didn’t start your business to feel trapped. And you’re not crazy for wanting more.
You’re the type of owner who wants:




The kind of company you could pass down, or simply enjoy without being chained to it.
Running a home service business is HARD.
It can have a significant impact on your family, marriage, health, and overall peace of mind.
When the stress fades…
When the chaos stops…
When the owner finally exhales…
The business becomes what it was supposed to be all along:
An asset.
A source of freedom.
A platform for impact.

Don't take my word for it...
hear from Steven for yourself.
Revenue: ~$2.5M
Profit: Negative
Reality on the ground:
Busy… but not profitable
Constant chaos and firefighting
No clear systems or processes
No financial clarity
Skeptical of coaching
The business depended entirely on him
“On paper, it looked like we were a real company, but it wasn’t paying like one.”
Revenue: Nearly $4M
Net Profit: ~$250,000
New reality:
Clear processes and structure
Financial scorecards with real visibility
A General Manager running day-to-day operations
Heavy investment in marketing without chaos
A business that scales without burning out the owners
Steven and Brad didn’t grow by working harder.
They grew by installing structure, clarity, and leadership.

Team: 2 owner-operators
Business reality:
Owners did everything
Growth depended entirely on them
No hiring structure
No onboarding system
No clear path to scale
Business was a job, not an asset
“If we stepped away, everything stopped.”
Team: Built for scale
New reality:
Clear job roles and hiring strategy
Structured interviews and onboarding process
Reduced turnover and better hires
A differentiated maintenance program
A real roadmap for multi-market growth
Daniel didn’t need motivation.
He needed a system to scale without being the bottleneck.

Revenue: ~$2M
Business reality:
Profitable, but capped by the owner
Owner was the bottleneck for decisions
Growth required his constant involvement
No clear hiring structure
Lacked a true thinking partner
“The business works… but only if I am always here.”
Trajectory: On pace to exceed $3.5M
New reality:
Clear strategy focused on ROI
Structured hiring and interview process
First strategic hires completed
Leadership team in place
Record-breaking off-season months
A trusted partner for real-time decisions
Jeremy didn’t need more best practices.
He needed leverage, clarity, and a system that removes him as the bottleneck.
You may have seen part of your struggle and story in the examples above.
You probably started this business because you loved the work. You wanted freedom, ownership, control, and a better life.
But the business you built to give you freedom…now owns you.
Do you ever find yourself worrying if maybe...you're the problem?
And at night? You quietly wonder…
“Why does this feel so hard?”
“Why does growth feel heavier, not easier?”
“Why do I feel dumb when it comes to my numbers?”
Most owners try to fix this the same way…by working harder, spending more…or hoping it’ll just “click” someday.
It won’t.
And even though you’re dealing with these challenges…
Let me say something important:
You were trained to sell, install, manage jobs, put out fires, and get the work done.
You probably weren't trained to architect a company.
Here’s the danger: there’s a lot of terrible advice out there.
Let's explore some of the terrible advice being peddled to home service owners in the marketplace...
Why This is Bad Advice:
But that system fits:
- Their personality
- Their market
- Their skillset
- Their leadership style — not yours.
Trying to copy-paste someone else’s business…
Is how you end up frustrated and failing.
Why This is Bad Advice:
Look, books are great. Podcasts are great.
But information alone doesn’t create change. It just makes noise.
You don’t need more insight…
You need better thinking.
More content won’t save you.
Clarity will. Awareness will.
Why This is Bad Advice:
If your systems are broken…
If your leadership is broken…
New technology, powerful AI, and more marketing won’t fix it.
They'll magnify it.
And this doesn't get fixed by a guru, a course, new tech, or pouring more money into your marketing. If this gets fixed, it will be because you fixed it.
And that brings us to a hard truth…
The problem isn’t your effort.
The problem is your thinking.
That’s not an insult. It’s reality.
Nobody taught you how to build a company.
And my mission is simple:
To help home service owners evolve from Technician Thinking into CEO Thinking.
Here's a piece of timeless wisdom that I learned from one of my mentors. He said, "The quality of your business will never exceed the quality of your thinking."
Information doesn’t transform a business. Implementation does.
Raising awareness…
Improving decision-making…
And installing real structure…
That’s what creates real, lasting change.
It doesn't come from another seminar or another binder.
Transformation also doesn’t come from knowing more…
It comes from thinking better.
That’s why I don’t look at your business in pieces.
We fix it as a system.
We work on:
Leadership
Financials
Operations
Sales
Marketing
Not in isolation, but as one operating system. That’s where lasting change happens.
And I don’t just help you build a business…
I help you build a life.
A life that allows you to be a better parent, partner, leader, and example. And this allows you to show up as the best version of yourself.
Not just for your family, but to your employees and their families too!
I’m Peter Leckemby, and like many contractors, I didn’t set out to become a business owner and coach. I’ve spent more than two decades inside real businesses — leading teams, managing complex operations, and watching hard-working owners slowly become trapped by the companies they built to create freedom. Seeing that pattern, over and over again, is what pulled me into this work.
Over the last 25+ years, I’ve led and managed across diverse industries, responsible for more than $60 million in annual revenue and 200+ employees.
I’ve also coached business owners, C-level executives, and leadership teams at the seven-, eight-, and nine-figure level. I’ve worked across leadership, operations, finance, sales, people, and strategy — not from theory, but from lived experience.
Most "coaches" working with home service owners have little or no training in actually coaching someone. They rely on past experiences or slick marketing.
If they do have any formal training, they probably just hung the certificate on the wall and never looked back.
My confidence comes from my training and practice. I have invested multiple 5-figure sums in world-class professional coaching training and experience.
I've been trained to the highest standards of the professional coaching industry through The Conscious Coaching Academy, an EMCC-accredited program.
Every week, I invest multiple hours in continuous learning and practice to ensure my skills and abilities remain at the highest level.
I’ve sat with owners, met spouses and kids, and seen what stress, chaos, and financial uncertainty do to families. I’ve also seen the moment things shift, when clarity replaces confusion, and the business finally starts working.
Today, I help home service business owners step out of technician thinking and into CEO thinking. Through my Profit Accelerator Operating System, I work directly with contractors in HVAC, roofing, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, cleaning, and other trades to create predictable profit, reduce chaos, and build businesses that support the life they actually want to live.
If you’re serious about building a company that runs without consuming you, you’re in the right place.

Head Coach and Founder
Home Service Coaching Pros

Much like the operating system on your phone or computer ensures all the core functions, resources, and applications work properly, the Profit Accelerator Operating System™ ensures all of the key parts of your business work together to maximize performance, create smooth operations, and eliminate chaos.
This results in profit growth, team growth, and owner freedom.
The three distinct phases of the Profit Accelerator Operating System™ (PAOS) are designed to do exactly that...
Accelerate your profits. Not revenue (though that will also happen).
Let's dig into the three phases of the Profit Accelerator Operating System™
First, we diagnose. We never start with tactics. We start with clarity.
Because you don’t fix what you don’t understand.
We begin with a deep evaluation of:
Your numbers
Your operations
Your leadership
Your sales and marketing
Your team structure
Your key challenges and constraints
No guessing, no gut decisions...data first.
This first step tells me several things about the owner and the business. It reveals the owner's business acumen, the health of their business, and if they are coachable.
Then we build a custom roadmap.
No templates. Not someone else’s playbook.
Yes, this is an operating system. And much like the OS on your computer, the PAOS requires the appropriate context and customizations to fit the user (the owner), and deliver the best outcomes.
In the PAOS Evaluation Phase, the roadmap is designed around:
Your goals
Your market
Your team
Your strengths
Your weak spots
And your thinking. Specifically, elevating the quality of your thinking.
Because when the quality of your thinking improves, every other area of the business will soon follow. No matter the competition, no matter the economy.
The roadmap is designed so that everything you work on has a reason.
And everything moves in the right order.
The execution phase is where we implement the roadmap together.
Not “watch a video and good luck.” And not "we have a set curriculum that everyone will follow."
We work together.
Side by side.
On your priorities.
I’m not yelling from the sidelines.
I’m in the game with you.
Together, we will:
Elevate thinking quality
Raise performance
Create clarity
Eliminate chaos
Install systems
Build structure
One problem at a time.
And through it all…
We don’t just work “in” your business. We work “on” you.
Read that statement again. Because that is what separates elite business owners from the majority who achieve mediocrity.
The best owners in home services are open and willing to work on themselves first.
We upgrade your thinking, your leadership, your systems, and your decision-making.
This is intentional, and happens because better thinking creates:
Better priorities
Better decisions
Better results
After we dial in the execution, we scale correctly.
Not with chaos. Not with panic. Not with desperation.
We scale With structure.
And when you scale that way…
growth doesn’t crush you…
It serves you.
This is real coaching...and so much more.
It’s a business operating system.
One that upgrades the company and the owner.
Now the question becomes simple…