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Current-state evidence
A concise institutional baseline separating documented performance, stakeholder evidence, constraints, unresolved questions, and assumptions.
Cadenza / Leadership Practice
Arts & culture / International
Strategy & Governance
A planned advisory practice for arts institutions that need to choose a direction, align governance and leadership, and turn strategy into a visible operating discipline.
Public inquiry boundary — do not send candidate, committee, relationship, or engagement records. A conversation does not create an engagement.
Evidence before assertion
Mandate profile
The work
The planned method joins evidence, choice, ownership, and review so the plan remains useful after the workshop ends.
A concise institutional baseline separating documented performance, stakeholder evidence, constraints, unresolved questions, and assumptions.
A short set of explicit choices, alternatives not pursued, dependencies, resource consequences, and board decisions.
Clear authority, committee purpose, reserved decisions, executive delegation, escalation, and review cadence.
Named owners, milestones, measures, decision dates, dependencies, and a living record of progress and change.
Method / 01—04
Each stage has a named owner, evidence boundary, approval point, and stopping condition. The operating control is part of the work.
Agree sponsor, purpose, scope, authority, evidence boundary, participants, exclusions, and the decisions the process must support.
Review authorized institutional records and stakeholder input while keeping observation, client evidence, benchmark, and assumption distinct.
Test strategic alternatives, trade-offs, resource implications, governance consequences, and unresolved dissent.
Translate the approved direction into owners, measures, meeting rhythms, decision gates, and versioned updates.
Transparent fee guide
These are future planning ranges in US dollars, not active offers or guaranteed quotes. Cadenza will confirm one signed scope, professional fee, milestone schedule, expense cap, taxes, and third-party costs before work begins.
Fixed professional fee; CEO, major-institution, international, and artistic searches are generally higher.
From $60,000
Future planning range / USD
Annual engagement planning range; a narrower diagnostic or emergency plan would be scoped separately.
$30,000–$100,000+
Future planning range / USD
Interim search and transition fee; interim executive compensation is separate.
$35,000–$75,000
Future planning range / USD
Fixed project range shaped by institutional scale, participation, evidence, and implementation scope.
$50,000–$175,000+
Future planning range / USD
Fixed project range shaped by data readiness, revenue lanes, campaign scope, and implementation support.
$40,000–$150,000+
Future planning range / USD
Package or custom scope; record volume, licensed-provider costs, human review, and advisory depth drive the range.
$10,000–$100,000+
Future planning range / USD
Fixed project range; architects, engineers, acousticians, cost consultants, and other specialists contract separately.
$100,000–$350,000+
Future planning range / USD
Fixed project range shaped by stakeholder groups, listening safeguards, accessibility review, facilitation, evidence volume, and implementation support.
$40,000–$150,000+
Future planning range / USD
Private institutional programme planning range; future cohort pricing requires a separate owner-approved model.
$40,000–$125,000+
Future planning range / USD
C01
Fixed in the signed scope. Executive-search fees are not calculated as a percentage of compensation.
C02
The contract states invoice amounts and dates. Search planning assumes 40% / 30% / 30%, subject to the signed schedule.
C03
Travel, advertising, checks, assessments, translation, legal review, specialists, and events are separate only when pre-approved.
C04
Taxes and third-party costs are identified. Any administrative markup must be disclosed in the contract before commitment.
Operating standard
Product constraints and operating rules—not trust language added after the fact.
Leadership pathway
Governed retained search from institutional readiness through appointment and onboarding.
From $60,000
Formation practice
Leadership continuity, emergency authority, board readiness, and transition discipline.
$30,000–$100,000+
Formation practice
A controlled continuity path when leadership changes faster than the permanent mandate.
$35,000–$75,000
Formation practice
Strategic choices, governance design, institutional alignment, and implementation control.
$50,000–$175,000+
Planned practice
Contributed and earned revenue, audience development, and advancement operating discipline.
$40,000–$150,000+
Planned practice
Licensed research, match review, relationship paths, and evidence-led prospect planning.
$10,000–$100,000+
Planned practice
Institutional, programmatic, market, operating, and financial planning before design.
$100,000–$350,000+
Planned practice
Organizational climate, accessibility, inclusive practice, and accountable engagement.
$40,000–$150,000+
Planned practice
A future learning platform for arts executives, board chairs, and transition leaders.
$40,000–$125,000+
Future institute
Begin carefully
Cadenza can discuss future scope and pilot interest. Do not send confidential records, candidate information, committee material, or an active mandate through the public form.