Industries · Home Services
Executive search for home services & restoration
GMs, operations leaders, and C-suite executives who can scale multi-location service businesses without losing the culture that made them worth building.
The challenge
The industry is scaling fast. Your leadership team has to keep up.
Home services is in the middle of the largest consolidation wave it has ever seen, PE firms rolling up HVAC, plumbing, pest control, roofing, and restoration at a pace that was unthinkable ten years ago. Every acquisition creates the same need: leadership. We're a retained firm that recruits inside this space; we understand the operational reality generalist recruiters don't.
- GMs and operations leaders who have run multi-location P&Ls in the field
- Executives who scale PE-backed platforms without breaking the founder's culture
- Successors who honor what a founder built while building what comes next
Roles we place
The seats that scale the company
The PE opportunity
The private-equity rollup opportunity
The industry is being reshaped by private equity, and the pace is accelerating. Every acquisition creates an immediate leadership need, and every month without the right leader is a month of eroded value against the investment thesis.
We work with PE operating and talent partners who need to move fast without sacrificing quality, 90-day leadership installation timelines, confidential searches, and multiple searches running in parallel across portfolio companies.
Founder succession
The founder succession opportunity
On the other side of the table, thousands of home-services founders are approaching retirement with no clear successor. They built the company from a truck and a phone and now run $20M to $100M operations with benches that grew up around them but may not be ready.
This is the silver tsunami in home services. It creates a specific need: a leader who can honor what the founder built while building what comes next. Get it right and the company thrives for another generation; get it wrong and the culture unravels in months.
EOS / Traction
The EOS / Traction connection
Many home-services companies run on EOS. If yours speaks the language of Visionary, Integrator, Rocks, and L10s, you already know that finding a true Integrator, the person who complements the Visionary and runs the day-to-day with discipline, is one of the hardest hires in the EOS world.
We've placed Integrators and operations leaders in EOS-driven companies. We understand how the Visionary/Integrator dynamic works, where it breaks down, and what to look for in someone who can earn the trust of a team that already has a rhythm.
How it works
A search built to stick
Most placements fail in the first 90 days. Our process is designed to prevent that.
STEP 01
The Bullseye Meeting
Every stakeholder in the room, role, comp, success criteria, cultural profile, and decision authority defined before we go to market.
STEP 02
Mapped search
We approach proven leaders directly, including the ones who aren't looking, not a job-board cast.
STEP 03
Mutual-fit assessment
Capability, character, and cultural fit vetted in person, on both sides of the table.
STEP 04
Onboard & follow through
We stay involved through the first 90 days to make the placement land.
FireSeeds has assisted us with several candidates at this juncture. They are thorough, vet candidates well, and perform their own testing to do a deeper dive than a resume or someone's best interview will tell you. They also understand who we are as a company and work to find candidates who align with our core values.
Servpro of Birmingham
Multiple placements
Ready to find your next leader?
Tell us about the seat you need to fill. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team to fill it.