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HVAC Industry Pulse: Insights & Strategies from the 2025 Contractor Survey

Tuesday, April 8

11:00 AM-12:00 PM EASTERN
(8:00 AM-9:00 AM PACIFIC)

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Course Objective:

The HVAC industry is evolving and businesses are currently being affected by many variables such as shifting customer demographics, changing economic factors and a plethora of new business strategies being implemented throughout the marketplace. Are you keeping up with these changing dynamics that will be impacting your business?

Join EGIA Contractor University’s General Manager David Holt on April 8th for a free inside-look webinar to discover some of the key findings from our recent HVAC industry survey conducted with hundreds of HVAC business leaders across North America. You will learn about the important industry trends happening right now and discover how you can position your business for success in the years to come.

This webinar will share critical data collected around:

  • The future of the HVAC industry
  • Threats, opportunities and challenges for contractors
  • Trends around business operations, marketing, staffing, consumer financing and more

Questions:

Contact David Delgado

619-203-5692 | ddelgado@egia.org

Presenter

Speaker Holt

David Holt
General Manager, Contractor University

As General Manager of Contractor University, David oversees and leads the day-to-day activities and overall strategic direction for EGIA Contractor University, the industry’s leading business training platform for contracting businesses. David is responsible for identifying the training curriculum contractors need to make their business successful in today’s marketplace and managing the team of industry experts required to create it and deliver it to member contractors. Additionally, David plays a key role in cultivating, developing and maintaining strategic partner relationships with the HVAC industry’s preeminent equipment manufacturers, distributors and suppliers for EGIA.

Before joining EGIA, David spent nearly four decades serving the HVAC industry. He started out by sweeping floors and running parts at his grandfather’s HVAC business. After graduating from college, he founded a software company that developed one of the industry’s first DOS-based service management and dispatching programs. David also served as president of the family HVAC business and was elected to ACCA’s national board of directors. After the family business was sold in 1999, David transitioned to a career in HVAC training, coaching, and consulting, holding various roles with Comfort Institute, Profit Strategies, National Comfort Institute, and SilverBullet Price Page.

David graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Business Management, majoring in Management Information Systems.