Shawn Van Dyke is a construction business coach and the author of two books: Profit First for Contractors and The Paperwork Punch List - 28 Days to Streamline Your Construction Business. Most contractors are not profitable which makes them feel uncertain about what they need to do to grow their construction businesses. Shawn believes construction business owners should be as good at business as they are at their craft. That's why, after twenty plus years of owning and operating multiple construction businesses, Shawn became a construction business coach. He now works with construction business owners, executives, and managers all over the world and shows them how to stop losing profits and wasting time. Shawn helps contractors get their lives back. He is also a keynote speaker and Fine Homebuilding Brand Ambassador. You can find him all over social media sharing his knowledge and experience. He doesn't mince words and gives practical advice to contractors so that he can accomplish his mission: to change the way the world view the trades. He believes the best way to accomplish this mission is to help contractors run world-class businesses so that they are seen for what they truly are - business professionals who provide an extraordinary service through their devotion to their craft, their customers, and their communities.

Ed was raised in a family of tradesmen, and basically grew up on construction job sites.  He is a Professional Engineer, Building Inspector and Master Plumber.  He worked as a designer for a Design/Build firm in New Berlin, a Plan Examiner for West Allis, an instructor at ITT Technical Institute, and now as the Director of Building Inspection and Neighborhood Services in West Allis.  He serves on many National, State and Local Building Code and Building Official Committees, and is passionate about strengthening building codes and promoting our industry.

David Lupberger draws on more than two decades of experience in the residential remodeling field to work with remodelers in developing proven business systems. Through his work in the remodeling industry, he hopes to redefine the way the remodeling industry operates so that the trust between quality Remodelers, their customers, suppliers, and trade contractors can be leveraged and improved.

Lupberger has been involved with custom home building and remodeling for over 20 years. After moving to the Washington DC area in 1988, he practiced high-end residential remodeling and focused on delivering the highest quality service to his clients. Over 90 percent of his work came from repeat and referral business, demonstrating the trust he developed with clients.

That experience in managing customer expectations led him to write a book called, Managing the Emotional Homeowner, which has become one of the bibles of the remodeling industry and helped hundreds of remodelers improve the level of service they provide clients.

Lupberger believes fervently that the best customer service only comes when a remodeler can deliver consistent results, which happens only with proven systems. He spent nearly 4 years writing the Remodelers Turnkey Program. This series of manuals is a basic how-to text on running a remodeling company. He recently authored the Home Asset Management Plan, a business system showing contractors how to implement a “client for life” program with their homeowner clients.

In 2004, Lupberger got to move back to Colorado, where he spent the first 30 years of his life. From his base in Colorado, he now consults with both Remodelers and industry manufacturers such as General Electric to maximize customer service relationships between all the industry partners. He travels extensively, speaking to thousands of remodelers across the country and is a regular on the seminar series at national trade shows. He also is a columnist for numerous industry trade magazines.

Tim Faller of Westerly, Rhode Island, founded his company, Field Training Services, in 1999. The company was committed to training production staff in good job-site management, debugging production systems, and to helping companies develop training programs for their field staff.

Based on his extensive experience as a lead carpenter, production manager, and homebuilder, Tim has conducted many successful training programs for lead carpenters, project managers, and production managers across the country.

His book, The Lead Carpenter Handbook: The Complete Hands-on Guide to Successful Job-Site Management was published in November 1998 and since has been revised twice. He has a new book Dear Remodeler which is a compilation of newsletter articles that covers a broad range of topics.

In April of 2017 Tim joined Remodelers Advantage as Senior Consultant and Master of Production. His focus with them is helping companies improve their production processes and systems.

D.P. Knudten is Chief Collaborator at his business COLLABORATOR Creative here in Madison, Wisconsin.

DP has worked on some of the biggest brands in the business, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Great Wolf Resorts, ClosetMaid, and Georgia-Pacific, and at agencies like DDB Needham/Chicago and McCann Erickson/Atlanta. A writer by trade, he enjoys playing in the intersection between the visual and the verbal, using his NonFiction Branding™ approach to move people—and product.

D.P. is also the co-author (with Spencer X. Smith) of the best-selling ROTOMA—The ROI of Social Media 'Top of Mind’, the creator/host of two popular podcasts (The ROTOMA Podcast, NONFICTION BRAND) and is a keynote speaker and clinician in the areas of branding, social media, creativity and culture for groups throughout the United States.

Terry Konell is the owner of T/C Risk Management Services who is devoted to keeping the persons who are the “backbone of America” safe in the work place. This was his ambition when his started is consulting firm in 2011. 

Beginning his career in the United States Navy a propulsion engineer and retiring in 2004 as Engineman Chief. During his tenure, he developed, implemented and managed operating procedures and safety and health programs that eliminated potential machinery failures and personnel exposures on various ships and industrial machinery systems.

After the Navy, Terry’s worked as a safety consultant for Thilman and Fillipinni in Chicago (T&F). Terry worked with many industries throughout United States. Terry also worked for United Heartland a Wisconsin based insurance carrier. As Corporate Safety Consultant enabled him to better understand the process of underwriting insurance.

Terry also spent about a year working for OSHA at their National Training Institute in Arlington Heights IL. His primary function as instructor was to train the field compliance officers who perform the inspections.

In April of 2011 Terry started his firm T/C Risk Management Services. T/C Risk serves all industries in training and consultation across the United States. Specializing in Electrical Safety, LOTO, Confined Space, and Fall Protections. We have helped many companies in dealing with OSHA inspections with very positive results. T/C Risk provides many other safety services as well to include First-aid CPR AED training, Industrial Hygiene testing, OSHA 10 & 30 hour classes, and leadership/accountability programs. Terry is a compassionate and competent leader with vast working knowledge in a wide variety of industries to include complex machinery systems.

Terry earned his bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health from Columbia Southern University. Additionally, Terry is a board Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and a Certified Electrical Safety Compliance Professional (CESCP) from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Terry is recognized for his diverse background in risk management and safety and environmental health. His expertise provides valuable and realistic cost effective solutions of reducing hazards and preventing injury that exceeds federal and industry guidelines.

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David W. Verbofsky (Dave) holds two degrees from West Virginia University.
Dave holds a Bachelor of Engineering and an MBA in Marketing.
Dave has over 37 of experience in the Building Products Industry.
Dave has worked for Ply Gem Siding Group, a Cornerstone Building Brands Company and Alcoa Corporation for 35 of those years.
Dave has worked in Marketing, Sales, Product Development, and the last 10 years as Manager of Product Training for the Siding Division.
Dave is significantly involved with the Vinyl Siding Institute (VSI) and its programs.
Dave is the current Chairperson for the Certified Installer Oversight Committee at the VSI and he is currently a VSI Certified Trainer for this program.
Dave also maintains the coveted Master Trainer designation with the VSI which allows him to be one of the few certified trainers who are approved by the BOD’s to Train incoming Certified Trainers for this program.
Dave was the first VSI Certified Installer in the program and over the past 10 years has certified over 2000 vinyl siding installers across North America.