1. TOTAL Business Consultants is a trading name owned by the Tilbury Family Trust. TOTAL Business Consultants is in the business of providing consulting services and marketing business products.

2. TOTAL Business Consultants also acts as a marketing group coordinating a network of affiliate consultants, using the actual/perceived size and range of expertise (ability to do many different types of assignment in many different industry sectors) plus access to effective intellectual property programmes, as a competitive advantage to obtain work.

3. Marketing of TOTAL Business Consultants is funded by The Tilbury Family Trust in most cases, with contributions from affiliates at their discretion on a case by case basis. There is no affiliation fee. Affiliates are provided with artwork for the use of the logo and can be linked to the TOTAL Business Consultants website. A Marketing Plan details the planned marketing activities.

4. Consultants are invited to become affiliates by the Tilbury Family Trust. Invitees accept affiliation by signing their acceptance of these Principles of Affiliation on the form provided by the Tilbury Family Trust. This includes the Principles set out here plus acceptance of the Values (by which we operate) and an agreement not to bill clients on any TOTAL Business Consultants assignemnt until it has been acertained that the client is satisfied that they have received work to the quality that they expected.

5. Affiliates and/or the Tilbury Family trust may terminate the affiliation at any time with written notice of 14 days. In both cases, it is desirable to discuss the issues giving rise to the change of membership beforehand.

6. TOTAL Business Consultants will promote the expertise of the affiliates as well as the intellectual property/products of the Tilbury Family Trust (including but not limited to Profit and Growth Plans, other One Day Plans and The Competitive Edge Simulation) seeking larger consulting assignments (needing a consultant project team) and industry or common interest group business improvement projects (using the customisable Profit and Growth Plan and other products).

7. Affiliates will retain their own business names. When referred to within the context of the group, they, and their separate corporate identity, will be identified as affiliates but not as employees, agents etc. TOTAL Business Consultants has no liability for any affiliates excepting the situation where they are members of a consulting team under the project leadership of TOTAL Business Consultants, in which case the professional standards of the Institute of Management Consultants are assumed to apply. Affiliates are responsible for their own proffessional indemnity and other insurances.

8. Consulting assignments identified by TOTAL Business Consultants or by affiliates, will be carried out by consulting team members selected at the discretion of the lead consultant. The lead consultant may be TOTAL Business Consultants or an affiliate, depending on the situation. Rates for sub-consultants will be negotiated between the project leader and team members, with the project leader taking a profit margin on sub-consultants work where appropriate. The project leader will be responsible for billing their client and for the maintenance of quality on the project.

9. Although TOTAL Business Consultants affiliates are in no way limited in their capacity to enter into joint consulting assignments with any other consultants the name of TOTAL Business Consultants will only be used as the lead organisation in a consulting project, where the owners of the TOTAL Business Consultants name and concept are involved or agree in advance to its use.

10. Clients generated through TOTAL Business Consultants marketing activities remain the clients of TOTAL Business Consultants, even where the owners of TOTAL Business Consultants sub-contract the performance of a project in its entirety to affiliates. Affiliates are required not to deal with that client without reference to TOTAL Business Consultants after such a project.

11. Clients generated through the activities of affiliates remain their clients, even where the job has been conducted under the banner of TOTAL Business Consultants or where the job has been partially or totally sub-contracted to TOTAL Business Consultants (and/or its affiliates).

12. Selected consultants can be licensed to deliver Profit and Growth, One Day Plans and The Competitive Edge independently from the IP owners (The Tilbury Family Trust). Licensees are entitled to market these product directly taking product and sub-consultant margins subject to license conditions as agreed between the parties.

13. Intellectual property belonging to affiliates remains their property if used in TOTAL Business Consultants consulting assignments or if used by other affiliates. Consultants wishing to badge their IP under the TOTAL Business Consultants banner candirectly negotiate the terms of such a situation with the owners of TOTAL Business Consultants.