The Foundations Workshop Series | Signature Workshops for Organizations

The Foundations Workshop Series

The Business Has Grown. Make Sure the Ownership and Agreements Underneath It Kept Up.

Signature workshops for organizations, associations, professional groups, communities, accelerators, teams, and conferences that want to help established creators, collaborators, producers, community founders, and small-business owners strengthen the ownership, contract, intellectual property, collaboration, and brand-protection structure beneath the work they have already built.

Signature Workshops Established Core Curriculum Participant Implementation Materials Audience-Appropriate Adaptation Business & Legal-Awareness Education
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Each Foundations workshop has an established core curriculum. Examples, emphasis, and audience language may be appropriately adapted for the organization and participants while preserving the substance and learning objectives of the workshop. These workshops provide education, not individualized legal services or representation.

Signature organizational workshops

Choose the Workshop That Fits Your Audience

Organizations may select either Foundations workshop independently or bring both into a broader learning program. Each workshop retains its core curriculum while allowing appropriate adaptation of examples, emphasis, and audience language for the people in the room.

Foundations Workshop

Intellectual Property and Contracts Foundations

Review the ownership, agreements, and brand protection beneath the business you have already built.

Core Focus Ownership, Agreements & Brand Protection
Audience Established Business & Professional Communities
Materials Participant Implementation Guide
Delivery Live Facilitated Workshop

Best for your audience when

Participants have accumulated names, content, programs, recordings, contractor relationships, licenses, or other valuable business assets and are no longer certain that the ownership and agreements underneath them kept pace.

Participants will examine

  • The intellectual property and business assets their companies have created or use
  • Where ownership questions commonly arise with contractors, collaborators, content, and recordings
  • Which agreements and licensing terms may be missing or incomplete
  • Where trademark, copyright, and brand-protection basics are often overlooked
  • How to prioritize the gaps that deserve attention first
Participants will leave with

A prioritized working list of what to check, formalize, protect, or fix next.

  • Established core curriculum
  • Participant implementation guide
  • Practical examples and guided implementation
  • Time for general participant questions
  • Examples, emphasis, and audience language adapted appropriately for the host group
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Foundations Workshop

Before You Build It Together

Clarify the ownership, decision-making, money, and brand-protection questions beneath a collaboration.

Core Focus Collaboration, Ownership & Decision-Making
Audience Collaborators, Teams & Professional Communities
Materials Participant Implementation Guide
Delivery Live Facilitated Workshop

Best for your audience when

Participants are preparing to build something with another person or organization, or they are already inside a joint program, shared brand, co-hosted event, community, production, creative partnership, or other collaboration that needs clearer structure.

Participants will examine

  • What each collaborator is contributing to the project or venture
  • How ownership of the brand, content, audience, and resulting work should be addressed
  • How money, expenses, responsibilities, and decision-making authority should be clarified
  • What should happen when a collaborator leaves or the relationship changes
  • What belongs in writing before the collaboration goes further
Participants will leave with

A collaboration structure map and a clear list of what needs to be discussed, decided, and put in writing next.

  • Established core curriculum
  • Participant implementation guide
  • Practical examples and guided implementation
  • Time for general participant questions
  • Examples, emphasis, and audience language adapted appropriately for the host group
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Choose by audience need

Start With the Question Most Relevant to Your Group

Start With IP and Contracts

Choose Intellectual Property and Contracts Foundations when the broader need involves names, content, programs, recordings, contractors, licenses, agreements, and the protection structure beneath an established business.

Start With Collaboration

Choose Before You Build It Together when the immediate need involves creating, operating, owning, or earning money from something with another person or organization.

Bring Both

Organizations may request both workshops as separate learning sessions when the audience would benefit from strengthening existing business structure and thinking more deliberately about collaboration.

Built for the business they already have

Strengthen the Structure Behind What They've Built

The people in your audience did not necessarily start their businesses yesterday. They may already have customers or clients, a name people recognize, content they created, collaborators or contractors they work with, and a reputation they did not have a year ago. Much of that may have grown faster than the structure meant to support and protect it.

The Foundations Workshop Series addresses that gap one defined area at a time. Participants learn what commonly gets missed as a business grows, what questions deserve attention, and how to decide what should happen next. They leave with practical implementation work, not a stack of theory.

This series is not an introduction to starting a business, and it is not legal representation. It is business and legal-awareness education designed to help participants recognize issues, ask better questions, make more informed decisions, and know when their situation may call for individualized professional advice.

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A Core Curriculum With Room for the Right Context

The substance of each Foundations workshop stays intact. The host context helps shape which examples receive emphasis and how the material is presented to the audience.

1

Choose the Workshop

Select the Foundations workshop that best matches the questions, decisions, or business situations your audience is facing.

2

Identify the Audience and Context

Share who the program is for, what kind of work they do, and which parts of the topic are most relevant to the group.

3

Adapt the Emphasis

Tonia may adapt examples, emphasis, and audience language as appropriate while preserving the workshop's established core curriculum and learning objectives.

4

Deliver and Apply

The workshop combines clear instruction, practical examples, guided implementation, participant materials, and bounded time for general participant questions.

Portrait of workshop facilitator Tonia M. Fisher

Your workshop facilitator

Tonia M. Fisher

Intellectual property attorney, former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney, business strategist, and educator.

Tonia helps creators, entrepreneurs, collaborators, small-business owners, and the organizations that serve them understand the ownership, agreement, and brand-protection structures beneath the work they create and commercialize.

In the Foundations Workshop Series, she translates legal and business concepts into practical questions, decisions, and implementation steps without treating a general education program as individualized legal representation.

Intellectual Property Attorney Former USPTO Trademark Examining Attorney Business Strategist Educator

Who these workshops are designed to serve

A Strong Fit for Established Business Audiences

A strong fit for audiences that

  • Already have customers, clients, an audience, content, programs, revenue, or a recognizable business identity.
  • Are formalizing or protecting business assets and relationships that grew before the structure underneath them was fully addressed.
  • Are preparing to combine brands, content, audiences, responsibilities, or money with another person or organization.
  • Want practical, plain-language education they can use to identify priorities and make better-informed decisions.

Another format may be better when participants

  • Are still deciding what to build and do not yet have a name, offer, content library, customer-facing program, collaboration, or business asset to evaluate.
  • Are in the middle of an active dispute, negotiation, or urgent legal problem and need an attorney representing them now.
  • Need someone to review a specific contract, application, dispute, or confidential set of facts as part of the program.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Can each Foundations workshop be requested independently?

Yes. Each workshop is a complete program and may be requested on its own. Organizations may also request both workshops as separate learning sessions when both topics fit the audience.

Can the workshop be adapted for our audience?

Yes. Each Foundations workshop has an established core curriculum. Examples, emphasis, and audience language may be appropriately adapted for the organization and participants while preserving the substance and learning objectives of the workshop.

Are participant materials included?

Yes. Foundations workshops include participant implementation materials designed to help attendees apply the concepts, identify priorities, and continue the work after the presentation.

Can participants ask questions?

Yes. Time may be included for general participant questions about the concepts taught and how they commonly arise in business. Confidential document review, individualized legal analysis, and legal advice concerning a participant's specific situation are not included.

Is this legal advice or a legal-services engagement?

No. These workshops provide general business and legal-awareness education. Nothing taught is legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by participating in a workshop. Individualized trademark and copyright legal services are provided separately through Tonia Fisher IP Law PLLC. Review the Disclaimer and Terms of Use for full details.

How do we request a Foundations workshop?

Visit the Programs for Organizations page to explore organizational programming and begin a workshop inquiry.

Bring Foundations to your group

Bring the Foundations Workshop Series to Your Organization

Choose the workshop that fits the people you serve. Each program brings an established core curriculum together with appropriate adaptation of examples, emphasis, and audience language for the group.

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