Mandate and profile
A versioned position mandate, competency framework, stakeholder evidence, and approval record tied to the real institutional need.
Retained Executive Search
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.
Do not send confidential candidate, committee, relationship, or engagement records through Cadenza's public contact form. A conversation does not create an engagement.
Designed for
The work
The target model treats the integrity of the process as a deliverable. It will not reduce executive judgement to an automated rank.
A versioned position mandate, competency framework, stakeholder evidence, and approval record tied to the real institutional need.
Separate prospect and candidate registers, source provenance, approved approach, purpose, and consent before identifiable presentation.
Engagement-scoped access, confidentiality, conflicts, recusals, frozen dossier releases, and sealed independent evaluation.
Diligence controls, immutable offer versions, candidate closure, placement, onboarding, guarantee evidence, and a complete governance record.
Process
Each stage has a named owner, evidence boundary, approval point, and stopping condition. A polished screen is never a substitute for an approved operating control.
A signed senior search partner, independent quality reviewer, and complaint reviewer with explicit authority and accountability.
Counsel-approved contracts, fees, expenses, guarantee terms, candidate notice, conflicts, off-limits, and marketplace neutrality.
Insurance in force and an approved, fundable guarantee-reserve formula before guarantee-backed work is offered.
An approved manual private stack or the separate Leadership runtime, database, bucket, audit, and capability foundation.
These are implemented as product and operating constraints, not aspirational language.
Related services
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.