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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
Turn institutional choices into owned action.
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
Built for institutions carrying consequential leadership risk.
- 01Institutions approaching a strategic inflection point
- 02Boards clarifying governance and executive authority
- 03Organizations aligning mission, program, and resources
- 04Leadership teams preparing a new planning cycle
- 05Institutions with an approved plan but weak execution
- 06Boards needing clearer decision and review rhythms
The work
Strategy as an operating system.
The planned method joins evidence, choice, ownership, and review so the plan remains useful after the workshop ends.
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Strategic choices
A short set of explicit choices, alternatives not pursued, dependencies, resource consequences, and board decisions.
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Governance design
Clear authority, committee purpose, reserved decisions, executive delegation, escalation, and review cadence.
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Implementation record
Named owners, milestones, measures, decision dates, dependencies, and a living record of progress and change.
Method / 01—04
The planned engagement method
Each stage has a named owner, evidence boundary, approval point, and stopping condition. The operating control is part of the work.
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Frame the decision
Agree sponsor, purpose, scope, authority, evidence boundary, participants, exclusions, and the decisions the process must support.
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Build the evidence base
Review authorized institutional records and stakeholder input while keeping observation, client evidence, benchmark, and assumption distinct.
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Make choices visible
Test strategic alternatives, trade-offs, resource implications, governance consequences, and unresolved dissent.
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Install review discipline
Translate the approved direction into owners, measures, meeting rhythms, decision gates, and versioned updates.
Transparent fee guide
Know the commercial frame before the conversation.
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.
Executive Search
Formation practiceFixed professional fee; CEO, major-institution, international, and artistic searches are generally higher.
From $60,000
Future planning range / USD
Board & Succession
Formation practiceAnnual engagement planning range; a narrower diagnostic or emergency plan would be scoped separately.
$30,000–$100,000+
Future planning range / USD
Interim Leadership
Formation practiceInterim search and transition fee; interim executive compensation is separate.
$35,000–$75,000
Future planning range / USD
Strategy & Governance
Planned practiceFixed project range shaped by institutional scale, participation, evidence, and implementation scope.
$50,000–$175,000+
Future planning range / USD
Revenue & Advancement
Planned practiceFixed project range shaped by data readiness, revenue lanes, campaign scope, and implementation support.
$40,000–$150,000+
Future planning range / USD
Donor Intelligence
Planned practicePackage or custom scope; record volume, licensed-provider costs, human review, and advisory depth drive the range.
$10,000–$100,000+
Future planning range / USD
Facilities & Program Planning
Planned practiceFixed project range; architects, engineers, acousticians, cost consultants, and other specialists contract separately.
$100,000–$350,000+
Future planning range / USD
Culture & Community
Planned practiceFixed project range shaped by stakeholder groups, listening safeguards, accessibility review, facilitation, evidence volume, and implementation support.
$40,000–$150,000+
Future planning range / USD
Leadership Institute
Future institutePrivate institutional programme planning range; future cohort pricing requires a separate owner-approved model.
$40,000–$125,000+
Future planning range / USD
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Professional fee
Fixed in the signed scope. Executive-search fees are not calculated as a percentage of compensation.
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Milestones
The contract states invoice amounts and dates. Search planning assumes 40% / 30% / 30%, subject to the signed schedule.
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Approved expenses
Travel, advertising, checks, assessments, translation, legal review, specialists, and events are separate only when pre-approved.
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No hidden markup
Taxes and third-party costs are identified. Any administrative markup must be disclosed in the contract before commitment.
Operating standard
Non-negotiable boundaries.
Product constraints and operating rules—not trust language added after the fact.
- G01No confidential candidate, committee, relationship, conflict, or engagement records belong in the public Cadenza application.
- G02No model may rank, recommend, reject, contact, or publish a person on Cadenza’s behalf.
- G03Advisory work remains independent from software sales, marketplace ranking, advertising, and editorial coverage.
- G04Public-source signals stay UNVERIFIED until a named human reviews the cited evidence.
- G05This planned method does not authorize confidential document collection, interviews, workshops, or governance advice before an engagement and private workspace are approved.
- G06Cadenza distinguishes board decisions, client evidence, adviser judgement, benchmarks, assumptions, and scenarios throughout the record.
Leadership pathway
The complete practice.
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Executive Search
Governed retained search from institutional readiness through appointment and onboarding.
From $60,000
Formation practice
Board & Succession
Leadership continuity, emergency authority, board readiness, and transition discipline.
$30,000–$100,000+
Formation practice
Interim Leadership
A controlled continuity path when leadership changes faster than the permanent mandate.
$35,000–$75,000
Formation practice
Strategy & Governance
Strategic choices, governance design, institutional alignment, and implementation control.
$50,000–$175,000+
Planned practice
Revenue & Advancement
Contributed and earned revenue, audience development, and advancement operating discipline.
$40,000–$150,000+
Planned practice
Donor Intelligence
Licensed research, match review, relationship paths, and evidence-led prospect planning.
$10,000–$100,000+
Planned practice
Facilities & Program Planning
Institutional, programmatic, market, operating, and financial planning before design.
$100,000–$350,000+
Planned practice
Culture & Community
Organizational climate, accessibility, inclusive practice, and accountable engagement.
$40,000–$150,000+
Planned practice
Leadership Institute
A future learning platform for arts executives, board chairs, and transition leaders.
$40,000–$125,000+
Future institute
Begin carefully
Start with the decision you need to make.
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.