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Meet Our
Strategic Partners

About Our Strategic Partners

Management Consultants for the Arts (MCA)

Executive Search in partnership with Management Consultants for the Arts (MCA)

Since 1983, MCA has had a rich involvement with arts and cultural organizations of all disciplines and sizes throughout the country.

Diaz Inclusion partners with MCA to:

Provide ongoing hands-on training, consultation, and advice on progressive and inclusive search practices for Executive Search Committees
Professional coaching for new Executive placements

Create Today

Strategic Planning in partnership with Create Today

Create Today is a fellow minority-female owned consultancy with 20 years expertise providing leading services on behalf of performing arts service organizations and foundations.

Diaz Inclusion partners with Create Today to:

Design strategic business plans, community cultural plans
Facilitate operations analysis and planning
Public policy lobbying
Conduct performing industry and consumer research
Prepare strategic plans and operations analysis
Support project and operational planning for major arts facility projects

Kappelman Consulting

Strategic Planning in partnership with Kappelman Consulting

Kappelman Consulting is an experienced consultancy with over 75 years collective experience guiding the nation's leading arts and culture organizations. Led by Lee Kappelman, this firm has a deep background spanning fundraising (annual, major and principal gifts, capital and comprehensive campaigns, etc.), strategic planning, executive search, executive and board leadership development, artist representation, and film and television production.

Diaz Inclusion partners with Kappelman Consulting to:

Lead strategic planning efforts, principally for orchestras, ballet and opera organizations

Black Feminist Policy Research

Field Research in partnership with Black Feminist Policy Research

Black Feminist Policy Lab is a fellow minority-female owned organization, led by a Brookings Institution Fellow with 15+ years of field leading experience in public policy, economics of marginalized communities, and research methodology.

Diaz Inclusion partners with Black Feminist Policy Lab to:

Gather policy, field research, and trends related to the nation's further diversification
Broad-based engagement survey methodology
Public policy lobbying

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