Two days. No phones buried in the truck, no fires to put out, no "I'll get to it Monday." Just owners in a room, working on the business instead of in it.
That was the Leadership Growth Summit, held August 27–28, 2026 at Fred F. Collis & Sons in Yorkville, New York. Freedom Builders University brought together HVAC, plumbing, and electrical business owners and managers for two straight days of working sessions, real talk, and a look inside a company that's been solving the exact problems most contractors are still stuck on.
If you were in the room, this is your recap. If you weren't, here's what you missed, and why you shouldn't miss what's coming next.
The Summit wasn't held in a hotel conference room. It was hosted inside a working shop: Fred F. Collis & Sons, founded in 1936 and now running under its fourth generation of family ownership. Attendees got a full tour of the operation, the systems, and the culture that have kept a home service company growing for nearly a century. No theory, no consultants selling a framework they've never run themselves. Just a real business, opened up.
Across two days, the agenda covered the problems that actually keep owners up at night: growth, leadership, money, and what happens after you build all of it.
Every session was built the same way: no sit-and-listen, no binder full of concepts you'll never open again. Owners left with something they could use Monday morning.
What made the Summit different wasn't the content. It was the room. Every attendee was a contractor, running the same kind of business, facing the same kind of problems. Nobody was there to sell theory. The conversations that happened over dinner and between sessions were as valuable as anything on the agenda, because the person next to you had already been where you are.
That's the same idea, taken further, in what's coming next.
The Leadership Growth Summit is two days of stepping back from your business. MasterMind is four.
Freedom Builders MasterMind runs January 25–29, 2027 in New Orleans, and it's built for owners and managers who are done with conferences that fade by the drive home. No keynote you'll forget by Friday. MasterMind runs on hot seat sessions: you bring your most pressing business problem into a small room of peers who run the same type of business, and the group works it with you until you leave with a concrete plan, not notes.
The framework is simple: Freedom = Money + Time + Impact. Every session is built to move one of the three, whether that's profit margins and OPEX control, getting out of the technician trap, or building something worth handing off.
Seats are intentionally limited to keep the group small enough that hot seats actually work. Registration is $5,000 per company and includes full MasterMind access, the welcome reception, daily lunches, a team activity, and the closing banquet, plus a guest pass for a +1.
If the Summit got you thinking about what's next for your business, MasterMind is where you actually build it.