TPCS — Production Ready

4 Pillars. One Operating System.
Built to Scale.

The TPCS framework is organized around four pillars — each one a complete system for setting, holding, living, and scaling your performance standards. Every tool in the framework serves one of these pillars.

Your Culture Has a Hidden Cost.
We Quantify It First.

Before recommending a single tool, TPCS runs your Culture Cost Assessment — a free 30-minute session that calculates the exact dollar cost of your current culture on turnover, productivity, and revenue. The ROI case is built before we begin.

Inside the System

The Full Framework — Organized by Phase

The TPCS framework moves through six sequential phases — from diagnosing your current culture through building long-term sustainability. Each phase serves one of the four pillars, ensuring that change is structural and permanent rather than a temporary initiative.

Pillar 1
Guiding Principles
Setting the Standard — Phases 1–2
Pillar 2
Leadership Foundation
Holding the Standard — Phase 3
Pillar 3
A-Player Engine
Living the Standard — Phase 4
Pillar 4
Operating Rhythm
Scaling the Standard — Phases 5–6
1

Diagnose — Understanding Your Cultural Starting Point

Quantify the cost and identify the root causes before prescribing any solutions

Tool 01 Culture Cost Calculator
ROI Quantification

Calculates the exact annual dollar cost of your current culture — across turnover, disengagement, management time, and revenue suppression. Builds the business case before anything else happens.

Tool 02 Culture Diagnostic
Current State Assessment

A structured assessment that maps current culture health across eight dimensions — values clarity, behavioral alignment, leadership effectiveness, engagement, accountability, communication, conflict health, and trust.

Tool 03 Leadership Alignment Audit
Leadership Assessment

Evaluates alignment among the leadership team on culture priorities, behavioral standards, and strategic direction — identifying gaps before they cascade into the broader organization.

Tool 04 Culture Gap Mapper
Diagnosis & Planning

Visualizes the gap between your current culture and the culture required to achieve your business objectives — creating the specific roadmap for the engagement ahead.

2

Design — Building the Cultural Architecture

Define the values, behaviors, and standards that will govern how your organization operates

Tool 05 Values Architecture
Core Values Design

Builds authentic, operationalizable core values — not wall art. Each value is defined with specific behavioral indicators so employees know exactly what living the value looks like in daily work.

Tool 06 Behavior Standards Framework
Observable Norms

Translates values into explicit behavioral standards — the observable, measurable actions that define cultural expectations at every level of the organization.

Tool 07 Vision Alignment Tool
Strategic Narrative

Connects your company's vision and mission to cultural priorities — ensuring that every culture initiative is grounded in where the business is going, not just where it's been.

Tool 08 Culture Story Builder
Internal Brand

Creates your organization's culture narrative — the authentic story of who you are, what you stand for, and what makes your firm a place where top performers choose to work.

3

Align — Getting Everyone Operating from the Same Playbook

Install the structural mechanisms that ensure consistent cultural performance across all teams and levels

Tool 09 Culture Hiring System
Talent Acquisition

Restructures your hiring process around cultural fit — with interview frameworks, evaluation rubrics, and selection criteria that ensure new hires reinforce rather than dilute your culture.

Tool 10 Onboarding Blueprint
Cultural Integration

Transforms onboarding from an HR checkbox into a structured cultural integration experience — ensuring that new team members understand, internalize, and contribute to the culture from day one.

Tool 11 Manager Playbook
Mid-Level Leadership

Gives managers at every level a specific, actionable playbook for modeling culture, reinforcing standards, handling culture drift, and developing cultural capability in their teams.

Tool 12 Communication Cadence System
Team Rhythm

Installs the meeting rhythms, communication norms, and information flow structures that keep culture visible and reinforced — rather than assumed and forgotten between quarterly off-sites.

4

Embed — Making Culture Self-Sustaining

Install the rituals, accountability structures, and reinforcement mechanisms that make culture permanent

Tool 13 Performance Framework
Standards & Accountability

Integrates cultural performance into your performance management system — so culture isn't separate from how people are evaluated, developed, and held accountable.

Tool 14 Recognition System
Reinforcement Design

Designs a recognition architecture that reinforces cultural behaviors — not just performance results. Celebrates the how, not just the what, creating powerful behavioral reinforcement loops.

Tool 15 Conflict Resolution Protocol
Structural Approach

Installs a structured, values-aligned process for resolving interpersonal and team conflict — turning recurring friction into a resolved issue that strengthens rather than weakens team culture.

Tool 16 Accountability Map
Ownership Framework

Defines who owns culture at every level of the organization — from the CEO to the team lead — ensuring that culture accountability is distributed, not concentrated at the top.

Tool 17 Trust Builder
Team Cohesion

A structured process for diagnosing and rebuilding psychological safety and trust within and between teams — the foundational prerequisite for high-performance collaboration.

Tool 18 Peer Accountability System
Team Ownership

Moves culture accountability from management down to peer-to-peer — creating a culture where team members hold each other to behavioral standards without requiring top-down enforcement.

5

Measure — Connecting Culture to Business Outcomes

Track culture health with quantifiable metrics and tie performance directly to business results

Tool 19 Engagement Pulse System
Ongoing Measurement

A lightweight, high-frequency pulse survey system that tracks engagement and culture health in real time — catching drift before it becomes a crisis and validating improvements as they happen.

Tool 20 Culture Scorecard
Health Metrics

A leadership-facing dashboard that tracks the eight dimensions of culture health — updated regularly and used in leadership reviews alongside financial and operational metrics.

Tool 21 Exit Intelligence System
Departure Insights

Transforms exit interviews from a compliance checkbox into a real data source — structured to surface the actual cultural drivers of voluntary turnover, not the polite reasons employees give on their way out.

Tool 22 Culture ROI Report
Business Case

Produces a board-ready report connecting culture investment to measurable business outcomes — retention improvement, productivity gains, revenue impact, and total ROI of the TPCS engagement.

6

Scale — Building a Culture That Grows With You

Prepare your culture for growth, leadership transitions, and long-term sustainability

Tool 23 Retention Strategy System
Talent Retention

Builds a proactive retention architecture — identifying flight risks early, designing stay interviews, and creating role development pathways that give your top performers compelling reasons to stay.

Tool 24 Leadership Pipeline Builder
Internal Development

Identifies and develops the next generation of cultural leaders from within — ensuring that as your organization grows, culture ownership grows with it and doesn't dilute at scale.

Tool 25 Growth Readiness Assessment
Scale Preparation

Evaluates your culture's readiness to sustain a significant growth event — new market entry, acquisition, rapid headcount growth — before the growth happens, not after cultural damage is done.

Tool 26 Implementation Roadmap
Execution Plan

A customized, prioritized 90–180 day implementation roadmap for your specific organization — sequencing all applicable TPCS tools in the order that maximizes impact and minimizes disruption.

Three Ways to Engage

Pick the path that fits where you are

TPCS is built for service businesses at every stage — from owners who want to understand the system first, to teams ready to self-implement, to organizations that want Jim to install it for them. All three tiers use the same frameworks and standards. The difference is how much of the work we do for you — and how fast you get there.

Tier 1 — Self-Implement

The Book

$20–30
Book + Starter Kit

The complete TPCS framework in book form — read the system, understand the standards, and start installing it yourself. Best for owners who want to evaluate before they commit.

  • Full TPCS book with chapter-by-chapter implementation guides
  • Culture self-assessment and ROI calculator
  • Culture Pulse Survey with self-scoring template
  • 30/90-day roadmap templates
  • Implementation sequence and priorities
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Tier 3 — Consulting

Done With You

$8,000–20,000
Full Done-With-You System

Jim works directly with your leadership team to install the full TPCS system — defining your standards, facilitating the workshops, running the diagnostics, and building your operating rhythm in 90 days.

  • Everything in Tier 1 and Tier 2 — fully deployed for you
  • Jim or a certified consultant in the room for every workshop
  • Full executive diagnostic with custom leadership debrief
  • Measurement spine operated for your firm (surveys, scoring, analysis)
  • 1:1 coaching and accountability cadence with Jim Lombard
  • Ongoing retainer options after the engagement
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Engagement Options

How We Work Together

TPCS engagements are adapted to the size, complexity, and urgency of each firm. Every engagement begins with a free Culture Cost Assessment.

The Process

What to Expect From Day One

Every TPCS engagement follows a clear, predictable process — so you always know what's happening, why it's happening, and what comes next.

1

Culture Cost Assessment

Free 30-minute session. We quantify the exact annual cost of your current culture — before you commit to anything.

2

Full Culture Diagnostic

Deep-dive assessment across all eight culture dimensions. Maps the gap between current state and performance culture target.

3

Custom Roadmap

Prioritized implementation plan specific to your firm — sequencing the right tools in the right order for maximum impact.

4

Phased Deployment

Tools deployed in structured phases with leadership involvement at every stage. Changes are structural, not superficial.

5

Measure & Validate

Culture Scorecard and ROI Report confirm the impact — connecting every investment to a measurable business outcome.

6

Sustain & Scale

Sustainability systems installed so culture performance continues to compound after the engagement is complete.

Start with Your Culture Cost Assessment

Free. 30 minutes. You'll leave knowing exactly what your culture is costing you — whether you engage with TPCS or not.