Find Your Edge. Scale for Wealth.
Live workshops and playbooks for contractors who want sharper systems, stronger margins, and real wealth.
Countdown till the industries best live in-person workshops begin!
Welcome to The Contracting Edge, the new standard in contractor training and business growth. Founded by industry veterans Gary Elekes and Weldon Long, The Contracting Edge is built to help service contractors sharpen their operations, accelerate profitability, and gain the competitive advantage needed in today’s fast-changing marketplace. Through live workshops, events, and practical tools, we deliver the knowledge and strategies contractors need to thrive.
Live Events
In-room training that sharpens strategy and drives profit fast.
- Hands-on playbooks
- Small room / big outcomes
- Dates start Jan 1
Workshops & Bootcamps
20 focused sessions on service, pricing, ops, and leadership.
- Step-by-step agendas
- Tools & templates included
- Team-ready
Speaking
High-energy talks that move teams to execute.
- Weldon now
- Gary post-Jan
- Service Management Sales, Culture
Coaching & Consulting
Custom engagements to fix margins, systems, and scale.
- Financial modeling
- Operational playbooks
- Leadership cadence
Wealth Club
Scale, exit, or partner—explore buy/roll-up options.
- Qualification required
- Confidential
- Strategy first
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Meet the Experts behind The Contracting Edge: Gary Elekes and Weldon Long
Gary Elekes | Co-Founder
Gary Elekes has been in the trades since 1983, over 4 decades, and is well known for developing, building, and implementing processes to scale and build wealth in contracting.
After 17 years with Lennox, Gary spent 3 years helping the public version of Service Experts refine the best practices with Contracting Success Group, and Service Experts 245 operating centers across the United States and Canada. Upon the sale of Service Experts to Lennox Retail, Gary began acquiring and building his own unique firms design to scale and eventually transact, as well as best practice coaching and training.
The current Wealth Building initiative is "The Contracting Edge" and includes 7 operating firms across multiple states, with intentions to add 12-20 additional firms who have what it takes to thrive and prosper! The culture is a tightly planned, aggressive, growth oriented culture driving accountabilty and to build a business to create wealth not the rights to a job.
Gary is joined by Weldon Long to link all the best practices and sales process together in one dynamic, exciting, fun, and focused development system - where you HAVE the playbook, and you have the TRAINING to execute the playbook - live and in person along with best in class coaching.
Weldon Long | Co-Founder
Weldon Long is a successful entrepreneur, sales expert and author of the NY Times Bestseller, The Power of Consistency - Prosperity Mindset Training for Sales and Business Professionals. In 2009, his business was selected by Inc Magazine as one of America’s fastest growing privately held companies.
Today, Weldon Long is one of the nation's most powerful speakers and a driven motivator who teaches the Sales and Prosperity Mindset philosophies that catapulted him from desperation and poverty to a life of wealth and prosperity.
Weldon is honored to have served some of America’s finest companies, including Comcast, The Franklin Covey Organization, The Home Depot, Fed Ex, Tom Hopkins International, Wells Fargo Bank, Owens Corning and Farmers Insurance.
