Engagements
Clear decisions. Work your company can own and run.
Start with public research to examine the issue. Choose an individually priced playbook when your team needs a structured resource. Bring Touch Stone Publishers into a company engagement when leaders need to clarify a decision, test governance under pressure, or learn to build and operate an agreed workflow.
Briefing clarifies the question. Playbooks support decision rights and operating evidence. The Governance Lab tests the decision under pressure. In a client-led executive residency, Touch Stone Publishers teaches and guides while your team builds, runs and verifies the agreed workflow.
The scope defines the decision owners, deliverables and completion boundary before work begins.
Primary inquiry: Discuss a company engagement
Start with the work already available
Public research
Use released whitepapers to examine the leadership issue and develop the questions your company needs to answer. Public research is a starting point; it does not establish whether a recommendation fits your particular situation.
Individually priced playbooks
Choose a playbook when your team wants a structured resource to support its own decision-making and governance work. Review the individual product listing for its contents, price and permitted use.
Your company decides how to apply the material and retains implementation, maintenance and operations. A playbook purchase does not include company-specific facilitation or a client-led residency; those require a separately scoped engagement.
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Choose the engagement that fits the decision
Executive Briefing
When it fits: Leaders need to clarify a consequential question before committing to a larger piece of work.
A briefing focuses the conversation on the decision, the people responsible for it and the evidence needed to move forward. The existing offer includes issue framing, board-level discussion prompts and a follow-up summary. The inquiry establishes the audience and question; the written scope confirms the format, duration, materials and investment.
Touch Stone Publishers prepares and guides the agreed briefing. Your company supplies the relevant context, brings the authorized decision owners into the conversation and retains responsibility for its decisions and subsequent action.
The briefing ends when the agreed session and any specified materials have been delivered. Further analysis or delivery requires a separate scope.
Organization Governance Lab
When it fits: A leadership cohort needs to test how it makes a defined decision and examine the governance evidence that supports it.
Investment: $25,000–$75,000.
The Lab works with the agreed leadership cohort on a scoped decision and defined governance artifacts. Participants examine decision rights, operating evidence and how the decision holds up under pressure.
Scope, participants, delivery format and deliverables are confirmed before agreement and invoice. The range is not a set of preset packages, and the engagement has no cart checkout.
Touch Stone Publishers guides the agreed Lab work. Your company provides the necessary context and authorized participants, makes its decisions and retains implementation and operations.
Completion is defined by the agreed Lab work and specified artifacts. Delivery of those artifacts does not establish that a wider implementation is complete. Where the scope also includes a client-led residency, its build, verification and acceptance requirements are stated separately.
Discuss the Governance Lab · Read the Lab overview
Client-led Executive Residency
When it fits: Your company wants its own team to learn, build and demonstrate that it can operate an agreed workflow.
Touch Stone Publishers teaches and guides; your company builds, owns and runs the work. The authorized sponsor establishes requirements and decision rights. Your team builds the agreed workflow and runs normal and exception cases.
The scope identifies the supported tools, prerequisites, deliverables, pause rules, fallback, maintenance ownership and closeout requirements. Your company supplies the authorized people, access and working context needed to complete its part.
Independent QA reviews the evidence and any repairs before client acceptance. Completion requires an unassisted client run, agreed acceptance and a durable handover. That handover names the operator, maintenance owner and revalidation triggers.
Your company retains implementation, maintenance and operations. Any optional follow-up is separately bounded in scope.
Discuss a client-led residency
Enterprise Advisory Engagement
When it fits: A company's question reaches across its operating model, leadership capacity, governance architecture or enterprise risk.
The existing advisory offer covers discovery and diagnostic review, executive interviews, board-level briefing materials, an implementation roadmap and advisory support. The written scope identifies which of these elements the engagement includes, the outputs to be delivered and the boundary of the advisory work.
Touch Stone Publishers provides the agreed analysis and advice. Your company supplies the relevant evidence and authorized participants, owns the decisions and retains implementation, maintenance and operations.
Completion occurs when the agreed outputs have been delivered and the specified review is complete. A roadmap does not mean implementation has been performed. Any further advisory work or follow-up requires a separately bounded scope. Investment is confirmed for the agreed engagement.
Discuss an advisory engagement
Bring a decision or business process
Tell us what your company needs to decide or improve, who owns it, what evidence or working material already exists, and any constraints that affect the work.
The inquiry helps identify the appropriate starting point. Before an engagement begins, the written scope confirms responsibilities, deliverables, investment and the completion boundary.
Any scenarios or examples discussed during an inquiry are illustrative. Only deliverables included in the agreed scope form part of the engagement.
Existing customer commitments and agreed benefits continue under their existing terms. Existing member sign-in