Trade Advantage Consulting Group
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Private Strategic Advisory

Better decisions.
Stronger leaders.
A business you control.

For established Plumbing, Electrical and HVAC business owners who want an experienced strategic advisor closely involved in the numbers, priorities, leadership and direction of the business.

What Private Advisory Is

A strategic partner for the decisions that matter.

As a business grows, the owner needs fewer generic ideas and more clarity around what is actually happening, what matters most and who is accountable for changing it.

TAC works alongside the owner and leadership team to turn financial and operational information into practical priorities. The focus is not adding more activity. It is making better decisions, developing stronger managers and consistently executing the few things that move the business forward.

The TAC Role

Challenge the thinking. Clarify the numbers. Keep the priorities visible.

Bruce brings an outside perspective without losing sight of the realities of running a trade business. The relationship is direct, practical and built around the owner’s goals.

Clarity before activity.
Accountability before excuses.
Execution before the next idea.

Where We Focus

The whole business - not one isolated problem.

Private Advisory is built around the issues that are most important to the owner and the business at that stage of growth.

1

Strategy & Planning

Annual direction, 90-day priorities, growth choices, new locations, service lines and where the owner should focus.

2

Financial Performance

Revenue, gross profit, operating profit, cash, budgets, department performance and the economics beneath the headline number.

3

Leadership & Management

Manager expectations, development, meeting cadence, decision rights and creating leaders who can carry more of the business.

4

KPI Accountability

Scorecards, technician productivity, conversion, average sale, labour, materials, marketing return and clear ownership of results.

5

Growth & Structure

Organisational design, capacity, hiring ahead of growth, business-unit performance and scaling without losing control.

6

Owner Priorities

Building a company that creates more choices around time, wealth, family, succession and the owner’s long-term role.

How The Relationship Works

Regular rhythm. Clear priorities.
No disappearing between meetings.

Step 1

Understand

Get clear on the numbers, current constraints, leadership capability and the owner’s objectives.

Step 2

Prioritise

Reduce the noise to a small number of business priorities with defined owners and measurable outcomes.
Step 3

Execute

Work with the owner and leadership team through a regular strategic cadence, scorecards and direct accountability.

Step 4

Review

Measure what changed, diagnose what did not and reset the next priorities before momentum is lost.

What Good Looks Like

Over time, the business should need less of the owner — not more.

Clearer Numbers

You know what is driving performance and where attention is required.

Stronger Managers

Leadership becomes more capable of making decisions and owning outcomes.

Better Execution

Priorities survive beyond the planning meeting and are actually completed.

More Choice

The owner has greater freedom around growth, time, investment and what comes next.

Who It Is For

Best suited to established owners who want to keep building.

Private Advisory is intentionally limited. Fit matters more than volume.

Established trade-services business
Typically $5m+ annual revenue
Owner willing to share real numbers
Management team to develop
Serious about accountability
Wants profitable, sustainable growth

Experience Across The Growth Journey

Long-term client growth
$1.4m → $25m
Business transformation
$1.2m → $10.4m

Start With A Conversation

Is TAC the right strategic partner for the next stage of your business?

The first conversation is about where the business is today, where you want to take it and whether a private advisory relationship is the right fit.