We’ve all been there — the cold metal folding chairs, the monotone instructor reading straight from a code book, the kind of environment that makes eight hours feel like eighty.
Nobody learns anything.
Nobody enjoys it.
It’s just another box to check so you can keep your license.
We knew the trades deserved better.
Contractors deserve real education, not torture.
So, we built something different — something we wished existed the first time we suffered through CE.
🎯 OUR STORY
The Fix-It Academy was created by contractors who lived the real field life. We’ve been in crawlspaces, attics, boiler rooms, and basements for decades. We’ve run companies, trained techs, dealt with customers, solved the impossible, and built businesses from the ground up.
After sitting through yet another miserable CE class — stiff chairs, no food, pointless reading — the idea hit:
“Why isn’t someone teaching this stuff in a way that actually HELPS contractors grow?”
That moment was the birth of The Fix-It Academy.
A place where:
- Contractors are respected
- The environment is comfortable
- The teaching is real
- And the experience is actually enjoyable
💡 OUR MISSION
To elevate Ohio’s trades by giving contractors the practical, real-world, business-growing education they never receive in traditional CE — and to do it in a fun, engaging, comfortable environment that actually makes them want to come back.
We help contractors:
- Communicate better
- Earn more
- Reduce stress
- Protect themselves
- Build stronger businesses
- Serve customers with confidence
- Stay compliant with state regulations
We don’t just check boxes.
We build better professionals.
🛠 OUR VALUES
✔ Real-World Experience Matters
Every lesson is taught by someone who has actually done the work — not by someone reading about it.
✔ Comfort Creates Better Learning
Good food, good seating, good energy.
When contractors are comfortable, they absorb more.
✔ Education Should Be Enjoyable
If you’re bored, you’re not learning.
We bring stories, humor, engagement, and real conversation.
✔ Business Skills Are Essential
Contractors need more than code updates — they need tools to compete, grow, and win.
✔ Respect for the Trades
We believe contractors are the backbone of every community.
We honor that with top-tier training.
✔ We Want You to Leave Wanting More
We measure success not by attendance… but by how many contractors say:
“That was actually AWESOME. When’s the next one?”
🔥 THE EXPERIENCE WE PROMISE
When contractors walk into a Fix-It Academy class, they feel it immediately:
This isn’t like any CE class they’ve been to before.
And when they walk out?
They leave with:
- Full CE credits
- New skills
- A better mindset
- Practical business tactics
- A sense of confidence
- A full stomach
- And a desire to come back next year
