About
Built For The Trades is a community that helps trade businesses, such as plumbing, HVAC, and electrical businesses, grow through leadership development. The company provides customized coaching, training, and mastermind solutions to help business owners achieve their goals in business and life.
Built For The Trades’ mission is to serve customers by listening to their vision and providing solutions built around what they want to achieve. The company believes in being proud to be an American and a tradesman, providing quality work, serving over selling, living with integrity, keeping their word, always progressing, and building on a foundation of faith.
Dan Dowdy, Founder of Built for the Trades, meeting with clients
Built for the Trades offers a variety of services to help trade businesses grow
Leadership Development Tools
Including free tools to help find the next leader in a business, scorecards to make progress on goals, and a system to train up leaders.
A free tool to assess personality profiles and improve communication.
Mastermind Groups
For business owners who struggle with isolation, lack of accountability, and connecting with like-minded owners.
Group Coaching
To help teams with time management, accountability, and communication.
One-on-One Leadership Coaching
To help business owners develop their leadership skills, train leaders in their business, develop accountability, develop vision tools, and gain time-freedom from their business.
Training Courses
Designed to empower business owners to run effective training sessions and grow their businesses.
Podcast
Featuring interviews with tradesmen and women about their journey in the trades.
Weekly Roundup Email
A summary of content shared throughout the week, including information on upcoming training events, product launches, and podcast episodes.
Built For The Trades specializes in working with plumbing, HVAC, and electrical businesses that are looking to grow their leadership team and are between $1 million and $2 million in revenue size. They have served many clients and their clients have seen an average revenue increase during the time they have worked with Built For The Trades.
What makes Built For The Trades unique is their focus on faith, family, and business, in that order. The company is led by Dan Dowdy, a second-generation tradesman with over 20 years of experience leading multi-million dollar home service businesses. He is a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Speaker, and is certified in the Business Freedom Coaching System and “The Four Stages of Leadership”.
Built For The Trades is committed to helping trade businesses succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to develop strong leaders. The company’s focus on leadership development, community building, and giving back makes them a valuable resource for trade businesses of all sizes.
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Dan and his family
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