Mitigate Legal and Financial Risks with Practical Contract Management

 

 What are the biggest risks from a lack of systematic contract management? Financial loss and legal exposure. TrailBlazer Academy’s dynamic, self-paced learning and coaching environment helps organizations avoid costly mistakes and reduce exposure to these and other risks.

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1.

You can’t afford to miss contract obligations or lose track of scheduled deliveries or payments. Regulatory pressure isn’t easing up. Violations and missed deadlines can lead to increased fees, steep fines, legal exposure, and long-term damage to your reputation. For small to mid-sized organizations, the impact can be hard-hitting – even unrecoverable, undermining years of trust with clients and partners.

2.

Critical details get missed when contracts live in spreadsheets, inboxes, or file cabinets. Deadlines slip. Renewal terms go unnoticed, and costs escalate. Obligations fall through the cracks. This creates cost, risk, non-compliance, missed revenue, and inefficiencies that strain your team.

 

3.

If your company relies on email chains, chat threads, and phone calls to manage contracts, it is at risk every day. Point solutions make it nearly impossible to track performance, ensure compliance, or respond confidently when regulators, leadership, or clients want answers.

 

Challenges, such as missed deadlines, payment discrepancies, and contract breaches, all of which can lead to costly disputes and penalties, are a direct result of a lack of focused, systematic contract management.

A Smarter Path Forward: 

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

You don’t need full-scale software deployment to get started. You do need a proven framework to assess your current situation, build on your strengths, and make meaningful change. 

Traditional consulting takes months of in-person meetings and on-site work. Those costs add up and results take time. 

TrailBlazer Academy delivers the same level of expertise on your laptop – and lets you control the pace of change.

 Contract Lifecycle Management:

Lesson 1 – CLM Basics: An Introduction

$499 $299 (limited time offer) 
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 Our introductory lesson is more than training—it’s a launchpad to TrailBlazer Academy, where you have access to proven strategies for managing supplier, partner, and revenue contracts—strategies that drive real results by reducing cost, improving compliance, and unlocking revenue opportunities.  

TrailBlazer Academy is your all-in-one hub for mastering contract lifecycle management (CLM) with on-demand access to expert-led courses, best practices, and coaching tailored to help small businesses and growing enterprises reduce risk and stay compliant, without the enterprise-level price tag.

Software alone is not enough. 

You don’t need full-scale software deployment to get started. You need a proven framework to assess your current situation, build on your strengths, and make meaningful change. Get a framework that works - plus the tools and support to implement it.

You get…

  • Principles, methods, and approaches to make your contract data work for you!
  • Proven policies, processes, and programs that fit your business.
  • Tools and templates to leverage - no need to reinvent everything from scratch!
  • Expert engagement to ask the tricky questions and receive just-in-time advice! 

By taking the first step and enrolling in our Introductory Lesson now, you will be the first to know as each new lesson in CLM Module 1 – CLM Basics becomes available. As an early-bird subscriber, you are also eligible for a reduced rate on the full CLM Basics Module and future modules in the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Course (limited time offer).

Do you have new employees just starting out in Contract Management or Legal Operations? Are you a small to mid-scale organization navigating a high volume of complex, multi-layered contracts? TrailBlazer Academy’s Contract Lifecycle Management Course is for you.

Start with

An Introduction to Contract Lifecycle Management

CLM Module 1 - Basics Lesson 1: An Introduction starts with the foundation.

  • What CLM is and what it isn’t
  • Key definitions and components of CLM
  • Benefits of CLM
  • Why an integrated approach works better than piecemeal fixes
  • How to identify the gaps in your current process—and what to do about them

Our proven Research, Pilot, and Practice framework helps you build understanding and momentum without overwhelming your team. The Introduction sets the stage for you to assess your contract management program (Lessons 2 and 3); make changes - small or large; and improve visibility and control over your contracts (future lessons and upcoming modules).

BONUS

Get 10% Off

When you enroll in the introductory lesson for $299, you’ll get 10% off your enrollment in the complete CLM Module 1 – Basics which includes 7 self-paced training lessons, associated tools and tips, and 7 live coaching sessions with TrailBlazer’s experts.

Contract Lifecycle Management: CLM Basics: Lesson 1-

 An Introduction

$499 $299 (limited time offer)  
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Do you have a formal Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) program?
Have you purchased a CLM software solution in the past two years?

Think about these questions:

  • Are you using your CLM as a document repository to store executed contracts?
  • Do you route draft contracts through your CLM for internal review and approval?
  • Do you leverage your CLM for external negotiation (redlines), communication (notices), and execution?
  • Do you have a well-managed clause and template library to support contract drafts in your CLM?
  • How do you train new employees in contract management policies and procedures?

TrailBlazer Academy’s Contract Lifecycle Management Basics Module empowers small to mid-scale enterprises to take control of their contracts.  If you’re ready to step back, assess your contract operations, and make smarter decisions, this module is your key to success.

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OUR STORY

Maura Dunn and Lee Karas

TrailBlazer Consulting, LLC, is a small, woman-owned business founded in 2013 by Maura Dunn and Lee Karas. The TrailBlazer team has worked together providing information governance services to clients for over twenty-five years. We apply our practical information governance approach to help gain control over your documents and data.

When it comes to contracts, a critical set of business documents and data for every organization, TrailBlazer Consulting has spent more than a decade applying information governance principles to the world of Contract Lifecycle Management. 

 

With TrailBlazer Academy, we are excited to apply our years of consulting experience in a new way-and we're starting with Contract Lifecycle Management!
  • TrailBlazer Academy is a dynamic, self-paced learning and coaching environment.
  • TrailBlazer Academy offers practical application of Information Governance expertise to the most pressing problems faced by small and medium-sized organizations.
  • TrailBlazer Academy brings expertise gained from 20+ years' consulting to large organizations in energy, healthcare, finance, technology, transportation, and manufacturing.
    • 11 industries served, worldwide
    • 25 Fortune 1000 companies
  • Traditional consulting takes months of in-person meetings and on-site work.
  • TrailBlazer Academy delivers the same level of expertise on your laptop or mobile device. Work at your own pace, pull together your team of in-house experts, and engage with TrailBlazer’s experts for live coaching.

TrailBlazer Academy is a division of TrailBlazer Consulting, LLC.

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