SPM built five construction PM courses that take a project manager from field fundamentals through the decisions that determine whether a job makes money. Courses run from $397 to $1,297, are self-paced through Thinkific, and cover blueprint reading, contract literacy, schedule control, and the operational calls senior PMs and office leaders make that affect cash and margin.
Most construction companies hire a project manager and hope the field experience adds up to good financial judgment. It usually doesn't, because the decisions that protect margin are decisions no one ever taught the PM to make: when to bill, how to document a change order, which line an expense belongs on, how a contract clause changes who eats a delay. Josh Luebker built these five courses from the same operational diagnosis SPM runs with fractional CFO clients: the project manager is the first place job cost data gets created or lost. Foundations gets a new PM oriented to the job. Execution builds control over schedule and cost. Leadership readies senior PMs and office leaders for calls that affect cash, margin, and how much the owner has to stay involved in the field.
BY JOSH LUEBKERPublished: Jul 2026Updated: Jul 2026
WHAT'S INCLUDED
FIVE COURSES. ONE PATH.
Self-paced video training through Thinkific, no live cohort to schedule around
A progression from field fundamentals (Foundations) to senior-level decisions (Leadership)
Two standalone specialty courses on blueprint reading and contract literacy
Built by Josh Luebker from real PM and CFO engagements, not generic PM theory
Certificate of completion on each course
Content ties directly to the job costing and margin problems SPM diagnoses with fractional CFO clients
Fractional CFO work fixes the financial structure around a construction company. This training fixes something upstream of that: the field decisions a PM makes before a single number reaches the office. A PM who bills late, misses a change order deadline, or codes labor to the wrong job is the reason a CFO spends three days rebuilding a job cost report instead of reviewing one.
Without this layer, CFOS runs on data that arrives late or arrives wrong, and every downstream report inherits the error. With it, the job costing and WIP reporting inside the Job Profitability System starts from numbers a trained PM already got right in the field.
The Leadership course connects most directly to the Cash Control System: it trains the exact billing and collections decisions that keep a job's cash from falling behind its cost.
PRICING
ONE-TIME COURSE PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
Each course is a one-time purchase billed directly through Thinkific, separate from CFO advisory or bookkeeping fees. No bundling required.
Project managers, coordinators, and office leaders at commercial subcontractors and self-performing GCs. Foundations fits a new or early-career PM. Execution fits a PM already running jobs who needs tighter control. Leadership fits a senior PM or office leader whose decisions affect cash and margin, not just schedule.
Generic PM courses teach scheduling software and general leadership theory. These courses were built by a former commercial construction PM and master electrician who now runs fractional CFO work for subcontractors, so every module ties a field decision (billing timing, change order documentation, cost coding) directly to the number it changes on the job cost report.
No. The courses are open to any contractor and sold separately through Thinkific. They are not part of Core Financial, Executive Financial, or Strategic Financial engagements, and buying a course does not require signing up for CFO advisory or bookkeeping services.
Self-paced. Each course is video-based and hosted on Thinkific, so a PM can work through it around an active job instead of blocking out time for a live cohort. Each course ends in a certificate of completion.
No, and it is not meant to. It closes the specific training gap that field experience alone rarely fills: how PM decisions on billing, change orders, and contract language show up in the company's cash and margin. An experienced PM who takes Leadership will make faster, better-documented decisions; the course does not substitute for the years of field judgment behind those decisions.
Josh Luebker
Fractional CFO · The Construction CFO
Former commercial construction project manager and master electrician. Managed 150+ projects worth more than $2.1B combined, with individual jobs from $50,000 to $300M, including data centers, military bases, hospitals, and high-rises. Now fractional CFO for commercial subcontractors doing $1M–$12M through Sulphur Prairie Management.
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