For growing businesses
Your contracts are outgrowing your spreadsheets.
Missed renewals, agreements no one can find, deadlines that slip. The bigger you get, the more it costs. TrailBlazer Learning Academy shows you exactly where your contract and records practices stand, and how to get ahead of it.
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TrailBlazer Learning Academy was founded by the leadership of TrailBlazer Consulting, LLC, and teaches the same methods TrailBlazer Consulting has refined in the field since 2013.
The TrailBlazer Consulting record behind it:
- 25+ years of practitioner experience in information governance, records management, and contract management
- 12 Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients, plus federal agency engagements
- Deep energy and utilities sector expertise
- Woman-owned business, WBE and WOSB certified
- 130+ episodes of the What Counts podcast
Enterprise-grade methods, made practical for growing businesses.
TrailBlazer Governance Accelerator™ is a trademark of TrailBlazer Consulting, LLC, used under license by TrailBlazer Learning Academy, Inc.
Four ways to move forward
Start with a free readiness check, work through a guided self-review, then build skills with our learning programs.
Need more than templates?
Is your data environment too complex for do-it-yourself templates?
If you operate in a highly regulated, asset-heavy industry, an off-the-shelf framework might only solve part of the puzzle. When the stakes are high and you need custom contract lifecycles, defensible disposition strategies, and complete implementation support, our consulting team steps in.
Renewal sneaking up on you?
TrailBlazer Tracker reads your contracts and puts every renewal, termination, and deadline straight into your calendar. Free to start.
TrailBlazer Governance Accelerator™
Seven components. One connected view.
A guided self-review in two packages, Contract and Information Governance. Each turns your answers into findings and a step-by-step plan.
Baseline Assessment
Map your contract environment: volumes, storage locations, workflows, technology and readiness. Start here; everything else builds on it.
Data Fitness
Check whether the data that describes your contracts, from IDs and dates to financial terms, counterparties and obligations, is complete and consistent.
Governance Foundation
Assess decision rights, ownership, template and clause standards, and how your teams work together.
Technology Evaluation
See how well your current tools support the contract lifecycle, and which platform direction fits you.
Configuration Readiness
Define the contract types, fields and value lists your platform will need, so the build starts from a clear blueprint.
Contract package onlyMigration Readiness
Inventory your contracts across repositories and check document condition and searchability, so the move is predictable.
Contract package onlyChange Management
Gauge your readiness to adopt a new platform: stakeholders, communications, training, AI readiness and support after go-live.
Start with the Baseline Assessment, then take the rest in the order that fits you. The Information Governance package includes five of these components; Configuration Readiness and Migration Readiness are part of the Contract package only.
Resources
Templates & playbooks
Practical artifacts to use this week.
Blog
From the trail
Field notes on information governance and CLM.
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