Built for the business owner who's great at the work — and ready to get great at the business

Table Talk Consulting works exclusively with trades and home service businesses — including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, remodeling, exterior cleaning, and garage door companies. Our clients are owner-operators generating between $500K and $5M in annual revenue who have strong technical skills and are ready to build the strategic structure their business needs to grow profitably. TTC doesn't work across every industry — that focus is intentional, and it's what makes our coaching genuinely relevant rather than broadly generic.

The most common growth challenges in trades and home service businesses fall into five categories: unclear strategy and market positioning, inconsistent lead generation, low sales conversion rates, operational systems that haven't kept pace with revenue, and poor pricing discipline that limits profitability. Most of these challenges aren't isolated problems — they're symptoms of a business that has grown faster than its strategic structure. Table Talk Consulting's Business Growth Blueprint is built specifically to identify which of these five areas is the primary constraint and build a clear path forward.

Reducing owner dependency is one of the most important — and most overlooked — transitions in a growing trades business. It requires three things working together: operational systems that run consistently without the owner in the room, a team with clearly defined roles and real accountability, and a leadership structure that empowers others to make decisions. Most owners become the bottleneck not because they want to be, but because the business grew without building the infrastructure around them. Table Talk Consulting helps owners diagnose exactly where the dependencies live and build the systems to address them — so the business can perform at a high level with or without you present.

A general business coach works across industries and applies broad principles that may or may not translate to a trades or home service context. A trades-specific business coach understands the unique economics of field service businesses — technician productivity, flat-rate versus time-and-materials pricing, dispatch efficiency, seasonal cash flow, and the owner-operator leadership model. That industry fluency means the coaching is immediately applicable rather than requiring extensive context-setting. Table Talk Consulting works exclusively in the trades and home service space, which means every framework, question, and recommendation is built around the realities of running this type of business — not adapted from a generic model.

There are a few reliable indicators. If your revenue is growing but your profit isn't keeping pace, if your business feels more stressful than it did when it was smaller, if you're making important decisions without a clear strategic framework, or if growth has made you more indispensable rather than less — those are strong signals that strategic coaching could have a meaningful impact. You don't need to be in crisis to benefit. Many of TTC's strongest engagements are with owners whose businesses are doing well but who recognize they're leaving growth, profit, or freedom on the table. The free Business Assessment is the fastest way to find out where you stand — it evaluates your business across all five pillars of the Business Growth Blueprint and gives you a clear picture of where to focus first.