Find Your Edge. Scale for Wealth.
Live in-person workshops and playbooks for contractors serious about scaling!
Scaling Your HVAC Business For Wealth
One Day Event in Vegas | February 11th 2026

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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Interested in The Contracting Edge? Fill out the form below with your questions about workshops or how we can help your service business thrive. Join us in reshaping industry learning and networking!
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 accountability 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 one of the most respected voices in the residential HVAC industry when it comes to building, scaling, and selling high-performance companies.
As a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Power of Consistency and the *Amazon #1 bestseller Consistency Selling, Weldon has spent more than two decades traveling the nation, teaching these proven principles to thousands of HVAC owners, service technicians, and sales teams—helping them transform into confident, disciplined, revenue-producing champions.
Weldon’s expertise is not theoretical—it’s forged in real-world execution.
In 2009, his HVAC company was recognized by INC. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing small businesses in America. A decade later, in 2019, Weldon did it again—starting an HVAC company from scratch and growing it to over $42 million in revenue in just five years, before selling it for a record-breaking multiple.
Today, Weldon remains deeply involved in the industry. Alongside his partner Gary Elekes, he currently owns seven HVAC companies across the country and works in the trenches every day, applying the same systems, processes, and mindset principles he teaches.
At the core of Weldon’s philosophy is a simple belief: Think Better. Sell Better. His proven methodology blends mindset mastery, structured communication, and ethical selling into a repeatable system that delivers measurable results.
Weldon Long doesn’t just teach success—he builds it.



