Quorum Governance Studio
The governance help boards actually call for — when they need it. Three arms under one roof: the Quorum Press book store, the online learning catalog, and the Quorum Case Files podcast — plus consulting and team training. Practical, on-demand, and grounded in a published bar — not opinion.
Quorum is a governance advisory and education studio — not a community association management company, and we do not offer management services.
Three ways in — the shelf, the classroom, the case files
Buy the published references, enroll in the courses built on them, or listen to the governance case-study podcast. Consulting sits alongside all three when a board needs hands-on help.
The Book Store
The four-volume FOAM Series in softcover, the Complete Library boxed set, and Studio-exclusive ebooks. The published curriculum the whole Studio teaches from.
4 volumes · boxed set · 4 ebooks · bulk orders
Enter the storeOnline Learning · The classroomThe Course Catalog
Every course in one catalog — fundamentals of the manager's craft, applied association finance, team cohorts, and state pre-licensing. Full curriculum, syllabus, and learning outcomes on every listing.
7 courses enrolling · more in production
Browse coursesQuorum Press · The podcastQuorum Case Files
Two-voice case studies of real community-association events — Marco Polo, Berkeley — and the governance lessons they left behind. Governance lessons from the communities that lived them.
19 episodes · ~15 min each · free account to listen
Listen nowConsulting
Ongoing governance operations support for boards and managers — working sessions, document workflow, and the questions that come up between meetings.
The Complete Training Program
Everything your firm needs to train a team in governance — in one box, run in-house, on your schedule. Built on FOAM Book 1 and anchored to the CICSC standards.
Full curriculum and outcomes are in the course catalog.
Governance Foundations — Team Edition
- FOAM Book 1 — full e-book access · ×15Each student reads Book 1 in their own account — includes 12 months of CICSC premium resources
- Instructor dashboardEnroll your cohort by email, track progress, and run the program from one workspace
- Instructor kitCourse slide deck + instructor's manual, plus a printed workbook shipped to you
- Two proctored written assessments + verbalTimed, auto-scored exams you open from the dashboard; you conduct the verbal
- Certificates of Completion · ×15Issued by Quorum Governance Studio on full completion — emailed automatically
We don't have opinions about governance. We have the standard.
Anyone can offer a board their take. Quorum is the operating studio of the Common Interest Community Standards Council — so every session, program, and book is anchored to a published, reviewed standard. That is the difference between advice and a bar you can point to.
“We train, facilitate, and equip. We don't render legal advice or decide for your board — we make sure you know the standard well enough to decide for yourselves.”
The Quorum operating principle
Offering Disclaimer: CICSC educational programs, credentials, and advisory products are designed to help volunteer board members and association management professionals access tools, training, and resources for governance and management. They do not constitute legal, tax, accounting, insurance, engineering, or investment advice and are not a substitute for consultation with qualified professionals retained by your association. Completion of a CICSC credential is an educational designation and does not by itself satisfy any director's fiduciary or legal duty.
Disclaimer: CICSC provides educational resources, governance standards, and practical advisory support. CICSC does not provide legal advice, accounting advice, tax advice, engineering advice, insurance advice, or reserve study services. Board members and associations should consult qualified professionals for matters requiring professional judgment or legal interpretation.