Cognitive Warfare for Boards and Executives
The target is the decision. Not the network.Adversaries no longer need your servers to move your share price, your regulator or your customers. A story placed in the right channel, at the right hour, does the work. Four hours with Treadstone 71 shows your board how those stories are built, who carries them, when to answer, and how to ask your own team for a judgment you can act on.
UP TO 15 ATTENDEESLIVE ONLINE OR ON SITETABLETOP INCLUDEDUp to 15 board members or executives.
At your boardroom, plus travel and expenses at cost.
The deck, a decision card per attendee, a readout memo within five business days.
- Audience
- Boards, C-suites, risk committees. Up to 15 attendees
- Format
- Four hours, live online or on site, with one 15-minute break
- Price
- $7,500 live online. $12,000 on site plus travel and expenses at cost
- Built from
- The Treadstone 71 Executive Intel Micro-Briefings and live cases from the Daily Adversary Brief
- Hands-on
- A 40-minute tabletop: a narrative attack on your sector, decided by the room in real time
- Deliverables
- The deck, a one-page decision card per attendee, a readout memo within five business days
- Terms
- Full price. Prepaid. No promotional codes
- Eligibility
- Organizations in the United States, NATO, EU and Western-friendly allied nations, validated by Treadstone 71
Six blocks. One question each.
Every block answers one question a director asks when a hostile story lands on the company. No jargon tour. No vendor pitch.
The threat to the decision
How adversaries target boards and markets through narrative. Four live cases drawn from the Daily Adversary Brief.
QUESTION: WHY US?Who builds it
Reading the actor map: originators, amplifiers, launderers and the unwitting carriers who spread a story without knowing whose it is.
QUESTION: WHO IS BEHIND IT?Whether to answer
Brandolini's Law and the exchange rate. Refuting a lie costs more than telling it. When silence beats a rebuttal, and when it fails.
QUESTION: DO WE RESPOND?Break
Coffee, phones, one question for the speaker.
What comes next
Kent bands for leaders: how to read a probability, and how to ask your team for one instead of a hedge.
QUESTION: HOW SURE ARE WE?Tabletop
A narrative attack on your sector, built from your intake, decided in real time by the room.
QUESTION: WHAT DO WE DO NOW?Readout
Three decisions the board owns, and the team that answers to it.
QUESTION: WHO OWNS WHAT?"Probably" is not an answer. A band is.
Drag the slider to the chance your team puts on a hostile narrative going mainstream before quarter end. The translator names the Sherman Kent band and gives the question a director asks next.
Bands follow the Sherman Kent spectrum with half-open intervals, as used in every Treadstone 71 product.
Paper that outlasts the meeting.
Every slide from the four hours, for the board book.
One page per attendee: the actor map, the exchange rate, the Kent bands, the three questions to ask the team.
A short memo within five business days: what the room decided at the tabletop, and the gaps it exposed.
The board decides. The team delivers.
Team Readiness: CNIA seats for 4 to 12, then a red cell day together.
The Strategic Narrative Inoculation Sprint before a merger, launch or rate case.
The Cognitive Warfare Monitor: weekly graded narrative intelligence.
The CNIA credential for the person who briefs you.
Go deeper after the briefing.
Jeff Bardin
FOUNDER AND CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, TREADSTONE 71
Fourteen years of US military service across the Air Force and Army, enlisted and officer: cryptologic linguist, then armored scout platoon leader. Builder of the cyber intelligence, cyber counterintelligence and cybercrime programs at Utica University. Author of The Mind Domain and Tradecraft at Machine Speed.
Woman-owned, veteran-led cyber and strategic intelligence training and consulting since 2002.
Ready to book? Contact Treadstone 71 with your sector, the number of attendees, online or on site, and two preferred dates.
Questions answered.
What is Cognitive Warfare for Boards and Executives?
A four-hour briefing for up to 15 board members or executives. The session shows how adversaries target corporate decisions through narrative, who builds and carries those narratives, when to answer, and how to read and ask for a probability. A 40-minute tabletop puts the room in charge of a live narrative attack on its own sector.
How much does it cost?
$7,500 delivered live online. $12,000 delivered on site, plus travel and expenses at cost. Full price, prepaid.
How many attendees?
Up to 15 board members, executives or risk committee members.
What do attendees receive?
The briefing deck, a one-page decision card for each attendee, and a short readout memo within five business days.
Is the content tailored to our sector?
Yes. The tabletop scenario is built for your sector from a short intake before the session. Block 1 uses four live cases from the Treadstone 71 Daily Adversary Brief.
Is technical knowledge needed?
No. The briefing is written for directors and executives. The focus is decisions, accountability and the questions to ask the team.
What happens after the briefing?
Boards usually send their analysts to Team Readiness, subscribe to the Cognitive Warfare Monitor for standing watch, buy the Strategic Narrative Inoculation Sprint before a milestone, or certify one analyst with CNIA.
Who is eligible?
Organizations in the United States, NATO and EU member states, and Western-friendly allied nations, validated by Treadstone 71.
Four hours. Three decisions you own.
$7,500 live online or $12,000 on site plus travel, for up to 15 directors and executives. The deck, a decision card per attendee and a readout memo come with it.
