Workshops
Learn live with Tonia through practical teaching, real-world examples, implementation materials, and time for questions.
Explore workshopsAI-Forward Business Strategy & Legal Education Programming
Build With Others. Own It Clearly.Structure What Comes Next.
Business strategy and legal education for collaborators, creators, producers, community founders, and small businesses building shared ideas, with clearer ownership, stronger agreements, and more intentional structure.
Information that helps you act
The Business Is Working. The Decisions Beneath It Matter More Now.
You have already built expertise, served clients or customers, created original work, established professional relationships, and developed something worth protecting.
Now more people are becoming involved. A collaboration, show, event, product, program, community, license, or expansion opportunity is taking shape. AI is helping you move faster. The questions around ownership, contracts, brand protection, responsibilities, and future use are becoming more consequential.
Tonia translates complex business and legal-awareness issues into live workshops, immersive business experiences, private audio, on-demand trainings, practical decision tools, and structured reviews that help you understand what applies and determine the appropriate next action.
This is built to help you take action.
It is practical support for the business you have built and the opportunities it is creating.
You will find clear explanations, real-world scenarios, guided decision-making, and tools designed to help you use what you learn in the context of an operating business.
Explore How to Work With Tonia
Choose the Kind of Support That Fits the Situation.
Join Tonia live, enter the District for a self-directed business mission, strengthen your AI practice, or request a closer review of an existing business situation.
The District
Enter an immersive metropolitan business environment for a focused mission built from short trainings, realistic business scenarios, microapps, selected resources, and guided decision-making.
Explore the DistrictAIxCEO™
Use AI to move faster on real business tasks, see how Tonia uses it herself, and understand where AI use meets your legal rights.
Explore AIxCEO™Structured Audits
For when general information is not enough: a defined review that helps you understand where the business stands and what deserves attention first.
Learn about structured auditsSignature Experience
The District at TMF COLLECTIVE™
Enter an immersive metropolitan business district where short trainings, realistic business scenarios, microapps, guided activities, and selected practical resources come together around a focused business mission. The scenarios reflect situations that regularly arise in operating businesses, helping you see how decisions unfold and work through what action to take.
Move through the experience at your own pace and leave with something useful, such as a decision record, ownership inventory, action plan, or defined next step. The District is where selected TMF COLLECTIVE resources come to life. It is not a warehouse of every product Tonia creates.
Follow the Featured Mission
Begin with a defined business question, opportunity, or decision and enter the spaces activated for that access day.
Learn, Decide, and Apply
Use short classes, audio, realistic business scenarios, microapps, selected resources, and guided activities to examine the issue in context.
Complete a Practical Takeaway
Finish with a decision record, inventory, action plan, or next step that can continue working for you after you leave the District.
Prefer another format? Private audio trainings, limited-time on-demand classes, individual tools, live workshops, and structured audits remain available throughout TMF COLLECTIVE.
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The Foundations Workshop Series
A practical series for established owners who want a stronger understanding of the ownership, contract, intellectual property, collaboration, and brand-protection questions beneath a growing business.
Foundations Workshop
Intellectual Property and Contracts Foundations
Review the protection beneath the business you have already built.
Examine the names, content, programs, contractor relationships, collaborations, recordings, and other business assets that may have developed without the ownership and contract structure evolving alongside them.
Foundations Workshop
Before You Build It Together
Clarify the business, ownership, and brand-protection questions beneath a collaboration.
Map what each person is bringing, building, owning, and expecting before valuable brands, audiences, content, money, or creative assets are combined.
Explore by business situation
Start With What Is Happening in the Business.
Begin with the decision or opportunity in front of you, then choose the experience, resource, or closer review that fits it.
I am preparing to collaborate.
Clarify contributions, ownership, authority, money, responsibilities, future use, and what should be documented.
Explore options for this situationI need to protect what the business created.
Review brands, content, contractor-created work, permissions, licensing, and gaps that may have accumulated over time.
Explore options for this situationI am producing a show, event, or shared experience.
Think through contributors, recordings, sponsorships, audiences, brands, reuse, and the structure beneath the production.
Explore options for this situationI am building or expanding a community.
Address guest experts, member-created material, recordings, programming, brand architecture, and recurring collaborations.
Explore options for this situationI work with contractors and creative partners.
Review agreements, ownership of delivered work, permissions, and the gaps that build up as your circle of collaborators grows.
Explore options for this situationI want to use AI without losing legal ground.
Use AI to move faster on real business tasks while understanding what you own, what you are licensing, and where your brand protection is at stake.
Explore AIxCEO™I need a closer review of an existing situation.
Use a structured audit to organize the facts, examine the relevant materials, identify priorities, and determine next steps.
Explore auditsAIxCEO™
Use AI to Build. Know Your Rights While You Do It.
AIxCEO™ is where practical AI use meets brand protection. You will see how Tonia actually uses AI inside her own business, learn how to use it to move faster on the tasks already in front of you, and get straight answers to the questions that come up constantly: what AI-assisted work you actually own, what you are licensing when you use or create a given tool, and how your AI use intersects with your trademarks, copyrights, and client agreements. That includes creating internal tools, automations, and simple client-facing digital tools as AI becomes part of how your business operates.
How this works in practice
Implement. Practical ways to use AI for the tasks already on your plate, including business workflows and digital tool creation.
Model. A real look at how Tonia uses AI inside her own business.
Protect. Where AI use meets your trademarks, copyrights, and client agreements.
Structured Audits
Take a Closer Look at What the Business Needs Now.
A structured audit provides a focused way to examine an existing business situation, organize the relevant facts and materials, identify gaps, and determine what deserves attention first.
Each audit is clearly scoped around collaboration and ownership or business and brand protection, with organized findings and a focused debrief.
- A Defined ScopeOne existing business area is selected so the review stays focused, useful, and tied to a real decision.
- Organized FindingsRelevant materials, patterns, gaps, and pressure points are reviewed and translated into a clear set of findings.
- Focused Next StepsYou leave with priorities, recommended actions, and a stronger understanding of what should happen next.
For organizations
Bring Practical Business Strategy and Brand Protection Guidance to the People You Serve.
Tonia provides live workshops and group training for organizations serving established entrepreneurs, creators, producers, artists, independent professionals, community founders, and small-business owners.
Programs may include live instruction, participant materials, facilitated implementation exercises, audience-specific examples, and optional follow-up resources.
- Women's business organizations
- Black business organizations
- Arts, film, and media communities
- Professional associations
- Small-business development programs
- Libraries, colleges, and incubators
- Community development organizations
- Creator and membership communities
About Tonia
Business Strategy, Brand Protection, Legal Awareness, and Practical Use of AI.
Tonia M. Fisher is a business strategist, intellectual property attorney, former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney, and enthusiastic AI practitioner.
She creates practical workshops, immersive and on-demand experiences, private audio, decision tools, and structured reviews for established women navigating the more complicated stage of business, when the brand has value, opportunities are expanding, collaborators are arriving, original assets are accumulating, and the decisions beneath the business deserve greater attention.
- Business strategist
- Intellectual property attorney
- Former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney
- Creator of AIxCEO™
Tonia's work combines business strategy, brand protection, real-world legal awareness, and practical use of AI. She helps business owners understand what applies, ask stronger questions, make clearer decisions, and take the appropriate next action without burying them in unnecessary complexity.
