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Mandate and profile
A versioned position mandate, competency framework, stakeholder evidence, and approval record tied to the real institutional need.
Cadenza / Leadership Practice
Arts & culture / International
Retained Executive Search
Retained search, with governance inside the work.
A planned search model for arts and culture institutions where candidate consent, committee integrity, conflicts, evidence, closure, and public claims are controlled from the beginning.
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.
- 01Boards planning a chief-executive transition
- 02Institutions defining a new leadership mandate
- 03Search committees needing clear governance
- 04Organizations with complex stakeholder groups
- 05Boards reviewing internal and external options
- 06Institutions preparing before a vacancy
The work
The governed search record
The target model treats the integrity of the process as a deliverable. It will not reduce executive judgement to an automated rank.
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Research and consent
Separate prospect and candidate registers, source provenance, approved approach, purpose, and consent before identifiable presentation.
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Committee integrity
Engagement-scoped access, confidentiality, conflicts, recusals, frozen dossier releases, and sealed independent evaluation.
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Decision and closure
Diligence controls, immutable offer versions, candidate closure, placement, onboarding, guarantee evidence, and a complete governance record.
Method / 01—04
What must exist before the first mandate
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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Named leadership
An accountable Cadenza search lead, independent quality review path, and complaint reviewer with explicit authority and capacity.
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Approved commercial controls
Counsel-approved contracts, fees, expenses, guarantee terms, candidate notice, conflicts, off-limits, and marketplace neutrality.
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Funded risk controls
Insurance in force and an approved, fundable guarantee-reserve formula before guarantee-backed work is offered.
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Private delivery boundary
An approved manual private stack or the separate Leadership runtime, database, bucket, audit, and capability foundation.
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.
C02
Milestones
The contract states invoice amounts and dates. Search planning assumes 40% / 30% / 30%, subject to the signed schedule.
C03
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.
- G05No candidate identity, interest, compensation expectation, evaluation, reference, diligence, offer, or placement record may enter the public application or main database.
- G06No search or appointment is published without the approved public projection and named dual approval.
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.