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Studio A | Acentech is a specialized team of acoustics consultants and audiovisual designers within Acentech, focused on cultural and performing arts venues. We collaborate with art institutions and architects to facilitate arts-centered design, and to create new, extended or renewed facilities for tomorrow’s performing and visual arts.
We are one of the oldest and largest organizations of our type with roots stretching back more than 70 years, offering acoustics, audiovisual, telecommunications, security, and vibration consulting services to the built environment. We are unequaled partners to architects, engineers, institutions, manufacturers, planners, and designers worldwide.
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Aegis has been providing project management, owner’s representative, and real estate advisory services through all phases of development to clients since 1980. We have offices in Philadelphia, PA; Wilmington, DE; and Bethlehem, PA.
The name Aegis means the protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization, and is represented by the shield icon in our logo. We are unwavering advocates for our clients, operating under four guiding principles: advocacy, process, stewardship, and leadership.
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Altieri has provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection (MEPF) and low voltage engineering design services to architects and building owners for 65 years. A Small Business Enterprise (SBE), we are a leader in the seamless integration of environmentally responsible systems within architecturally challenging institutional environments including museums, theatres and performing arts centers, educational buildings, and private residences requiring highly controlled systems. With inventive design and outstanding team coordination, we make bold visions work.
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Anser Advisory, a part of Accenture, is a national capital program and project advisory firm offering solutions to public and private sector clients implementing capital projects and programs. The consulting services we provide cover the entire lifecycle of capital development, starting with early-stage organizational readiness and delivery strategy through managing the tactical execution of projects. Anser Advisory has a diverse and talented team of over 900 professionals, including architects, engineers, construction managers, inspectors, project managers, estimators, certified professional accountants, management consultants, financial analysts, procurement specialists, system configuration specialists, and construction auditors.
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Art Processors are leading experience designers shaping the world’s most memorable destinations. Partnering with cultural and tourism organizations, we apply bespoke technology and innovative storytelling to craft journeys that profoundly resonate with audiences. We are committed to genuine impact and building a better tomorrow through experiences that foster empathy and exploration. We champion diverse voices to craft stories that forge new perspectives. Create Worlds™ with Art Processors. Let’s reimagine, together.
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Arup is a global collective of engineers, design consultants and advisors. We work with museums and architects to design new world-class museums, to help existing institutions address sustainability, resiliency, accessibility and equity, and collaborate with artists to conceive, design and install new and engaging installations.
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Becker & Frondorf provides two professional consulting services: Owner’s Representation and Independent Cost Estimating. We specialize in Museum Project Management, understanding visitor experience, the complexities of exhibit design and fabrication, and the intricacies of installing priceless artifacts.
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Beyer Blinder Belle is comprised of 190 professionals in New York City, Washington, DC, and Boston engaged in architecture, planning, and interiors. BBB is committed to the process of institution-building in the fullest sense. Our portfolio includes performance venues, sacred spaces, museums, libraries, parks and gardens. We work collaboratively with our clients, sometimes at multiple sites and often over the course of many years, to create customized programs and inspired spaces that transform institutions.
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Buro Happold is an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers, with a presence in 35+ locations worldwide, over 80 partners and 2,500 employees. For over 45 years we have built a world-class reputation for delivering creative, value led solutions for an ever challenging world.
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Since 1954, C. Erickson & Sons, Inc., a family owned business, has been a premier leader in Commercial Construction Management and General Contracting throughout the region. Our founding principles of INTEGRITY, RELATIONSHIPS and SERVICE are the cornerstones of our professional partnerships and the keystones to our continued success.
For over 65 years, Erickson has been a part of shaping the Greater Philadelphia skyline through its growth, evolution and revitalization. We are proud to have served as the Construction Manager for some of the region’s largest and most recognizable companies and institutions. Our multitude of capabilities range from interior renovations to historical restorations, buildouts and additions, as well as new construction, all while delivering the highest quality craftsmanship and attentive customer service, making us a leader in our class.
Since 1954, C. Erickson & Sons, Inc., a family owned business, has been a premier leader in Commercial Construction Management and General Contracting throughout the region. Our founding principles of INTEGRITY, RELATIONSHIPS and SERVICE are the cornerstones of our professional partnerships and the keystones to our continued success.
For over 65 years, Erickson has been a part of shaping the Greater Philadelphia skyline through its growth, evolution and revitalization. We are proud to have served as the Construction Manager for some of the region’s largest and most recognizable companies and institutions. Our multitude of capabilities range from interior renovations to historical restorations, buildouts and additions, as well as new construction, all while delivering the highest quality craftsmanship and attentive customer service, making us a leader in our class.
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We are Click Netherfield, global museum showcase experts with over 50 year’s experience working with communities and institutions across the Globe and here in North America from Alaska, to Hawaii, from New York City to Los Angeles and many points in between. With roots in Scottish soil, and North American operations based in New Jersey, we are extraordinarily proud to have the distinct honor in working with the Mid Atlantic Museum community, and beyond. We are highly regarded for our client services, after sales service, and logistics management in addition to being an industry & thought leader in the museum showcase market. Let us showcase your vision.
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Consigli Construction Co., Inc. is a leading construction manager in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Consigli services clients across all markets, including academic, healthcare, life sciences, institutional, energy, corporate and federal. Founded in 1905, Consigli is now a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) company, providing its people a direct benefit of its success and creating a culture of accountability. The company has offices in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Maine, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and the Caribbean. Consigli has received numerous awards for its craftsmanship and employment practices, including consistent national recognition as a Forbes Best Employer.
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Cooper Robertson practices award-winning architecture and urban design with both disciplines working together at a range of scales. Our New York City-based staff skillfully addresses large-scale urban design challenges, shapes major cultural and educational buildings, and crafts exceptional private residences and resorts.
Cooper Robertson has been recognized globally as among the most accomplished architects and planners of museums and cultural centers in the country. The firm has worked with over 50 collections-based institutions ranging in subject matter from fine arts to material culture to history.
In all of our work we seek to wed practicality and professional rigor with art and design; to combine reason and passion. Our work is borne from the careful consideration of uniqueness of place and connectivity to context and is successfully realized through technical ability and deft understanding of requirements.
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The Delaware Division of the Arts, a branch of the Delaware Department of State, is committed to supporting the arts and cultivating creativity to enhance the quality of life in Delaware. Together with its advisory body, the Delaware State Arts Council, the Division administers grants and programs that support arts programming, educate the public, increase awareness of the arts, and integrate the arts into all facets of Delaware life.
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D&P provides museum-quality exhibit services for clients throughout the United States and around the world. Our services include project management, production, and technology systems installation. We work with museums, educational organizations, and science and nature centers. Our clients also include visitor and information centers as well as corporate centers.
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DLR Group is an integrated architecture, engineering, and specialty discipline firm with a promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise fuels the work we do around the world, enriching communities and empowering creative expression. Our award-winning portfolio includes more than 40 museum projects of varying scales and contexts. These projects encompass traditional object-based gallery spaces as well as immersive museums involving interactive exhibits and technology-rich environments. Current clients include the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Heard Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jacksonville’s Museum of Science and History.
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ERCO Lighting is a leading international specialist in architectural lighting using entirely LED technology. ERCO is able to ensure the highest levels of quality and consistency to meet the most demanding of applications: illumination of artwork and exhibits. It is in museums and galleries that light is put to its greatest test, simultaneously allowing today’s visitors to view works and conserving them for generations to come.
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EwingCole’s vision is to design places that elevate the human experience; our goal is to build a design culture that can transform the most common buildings and landscapes into meaningful experiences. We bring together research, creativity, and technology through a rigorous process to create places where people live, learn, heal, work, and play.
Galleries and exhibit spaces allow us to step into the past, interpret its meaning, and look to the future. Working directly with exhibit, we enable those stories to be told in new and meaningful ways, designing and planning spaces that allow for flexibility in showcasing various types of collections and accommodating different exhibit formats. From large institutions to small museums, we create transformative environments that educate and inspire, incorporating interactive displays, multimedia installations, and hands-on activities to engage visitors and enhance the learning experience.
In addition to the featured exhibits and collections, many of our museum designs include retail and food service spaces that are inspired by the museum’s mission and are informed by their environment and surroundings. We work closely with clients and expert consultants to create one-of-a-kind experiences based on data-driven decisions and increased opportunities for revenue generation, providing spaces for visitors to relax, socialize, and enjoy refreshments within the cultural complex.
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Fireline is an expert in fire alarm and suppression systems for cultural facilities. We offer solutions intended to minimize the impact to facilities and artifacts in the event of fire.
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With a focus on both physical and digital spaces, we integrate experience design and media with the physical environment to produce immersive storytelling experiences that engage, entertain and create measurable impact. We provide informed strategic services with a touch of disruptive creative execution. Our work delivers a harmony between technology, narrative, and physical design. We are the multidisciplinary firm equipped to bring your project from idea to reality.
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Gecko Group is a small, dedicated team passionate about creating excellent visitor experiences through relevant storytelling and beautiful design.
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If you are managing a construction project that uses heavy equipment or blasting, your project will create off-site vibrations that can put your organization and reputation at risk. GeoSonics/Vibra-Tech has been providing vibration and blast consulting services for over 70 years. We have the tools and experience to help you manage your construction risk. Our Re:mote Monitoring Technology, a fully automated monitoring system with web-based data access and smart phone apps, continuously collects and posts data to a customized website, keeping project personnel notified through email/text alarms. Re:mote monitoring capabilities bring the field to you whether you need vibration, noise, dust, geotechnical or environmental monitoring. We also offer pre-construction inspections, damage claim investigations, project criteria development and expert testimony. Visit http://www.geosonicsvibratech.com.
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Since our inception in 1956, Glenmede has earned a reputation as a dedicated and dynamic Outsourced Chief Investment Officer. We were established to serve in perpetuity as Trustee and investment manager for The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of America’s largest charities. We formally opened to new clients, including museums and historical societies, in 1978, enabling those institutions to benefit from the sophisticated investment strategies and asset allocations designed to preserve principal, achieve capital appreciation and generate appropriate returns to further their missions. Today, our 250+ endowment and foundation relationships benefit from investment experience accrued over years of sophisticated endowment-style management, a culture of continuous improvement, and a shared set of values and interests. Unaffected by the ongoing consolidations within the financial industry, Glenmede remains large enough to be consequential yet focused on delivering customized services.
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Established in 1965, Hartman–Cox Architects is an award-winning, national recognized Washington DC firm with expertise in major renovations and new construction for institutional, educational and civic clients. Noted for sensitivity and response to site and context, as well as its stylistic flexibility, Hartman-Cox creates buildings appropriate to their surroundings and their function. The fi rm has received over 180 design awards, including six American Institute of Architects Honor Awards, the Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture, the 2006 Arthur Ross Award for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects Architectural Firm Award, the highest award the AIA bestows on a firm for design.
As architects of significant structures such as the National Gallery of Art, National Archives Building and the Smithsonian Institution Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Hartman-Cox Architects has carefully evaluated, conserved and preserved over thirty structures for future generations.
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HealyKohler Design is a full-service design firm located in Washington, DC where we create successful visitor experiences through Museum Planning and Exhibition Design, Environmental Graphics, and Branding, developing your vision without losing sight of the most valuable experience – that of the guest.
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IT’s a Grind provides information technology advisory services to nonprofits and commercial organizations. We provide fractional CIO/CTO support, Business and Technology Alignment, Technology Cost Analysis, and other Advisory services.
We can help you optimize user experiences, improve productivity, reduce costs, and ultimately achieve your strategic objectives. By fostering collaboration, setting common goals, and overcoming challenges through best practices, businesses can ensure that their IT efforts are closely aligned with their overall business objectives.
We are Passionate Problem Solvers and have supported dozens of Fortune 500, Federal Agencies, and State Governments with their biggest challenges. Let us help you see the forest through the trees. We know IT can be a Grind, but we can provide a disciplined approach and leadership to ensure success.
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JacobsWyper Architects is a WBE certified Architecture, Planning and Interior Design Firm located in the U.S. cities of Philadelphia, Raleigh and Austin. We maintain a strong regional presence across all our geographies while our niche specialties and strong client relationships expand our expertise to the global market. We understand the unique challenges faced by museums and cultural institutions, who must find new and creative ways to engage their broader communities, creating spaces that bring together long-time patrons with those whose first visit may be tomorrow. This is exactly the kind of puzzle we love to solve. Our museum team excels at many things including visitor experience design, integration of exhibits within the architecture, class A gallery requirements, and careful intervention to the existing building design.
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JGL is a boutique consultancy serving the corporate, cultural, and higher education markets. We are passionate about developing successful food service and retail operations at our client locations. “Success” may mean the hot new destination restaurant in an expanding museum, increased retail merchandise sales at a zoo, a revitalized event rental program at an aquarium, or identification of a food service partner with aligned sustainability initiatives at a college or university. JGL’s customized management advisory expertise enables our team to deliver on client goals.
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Founded in 1998, Kohler Ronan is a multi-disciplined engineering consultancy dedicated to providing exceptional mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology design, as well as comprehensive energy analysis, sustainable design, and commissioning services. From our offices in Danbury, Connecticut and New York, New York, our diverse team of approximately 70 professionals collaborate with prominent architectural firms on a wide array of regional and nationally recognized project assignments. Commissions include those for world renowned museums, fine and performing arts centers, prestigious universities, state-of-the-art educational and healthcare facilities, luxury residences, and premier recreation establishments. Additionally, we have the privilege of designing specialty systems for landmark sites and historically significant buildings across the country.
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Luci Creative is a woman-owned, full-service museum design firm empowering organizations to realize their goals through dynamic experiences and exhibits. We believe that powerful stories drive the human experience. Our need to create meets a restless curiosity—realized in a knack for telling stories in new ways. We ignite discovery, connection, and change through physical spaces of all scales, bringing together the best expert partners to realize the project and manage every step of the creative process for our clients along the way. Luci’s team of designers tailor a collaborative approach to every project, generating fresh experiences that are engaging, meaningful, and memorable. You have a story—we make it real.
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Mad Systems is an award-winning exhibit technology company specializing in AV/Interactive exhibits for museums, visitor centers, and more. We are a majority woman-owned business that uses creative technology to develop long-lasting and easy-to-maintain systems. Mad implements the latest technology and uses non-proprietary equipment whenever possible. We provide a full range of systems from traditional AV approaches to our advanced AV++® solutions. The QuickSilver® system delivers easy-to-update, dynamic content with options to personalize media delivery that reduces system infrastructure and increases longevity. Whether implementing traditional AV solutions or our own technologies, Mad exceeds clients’ expectations – without exceeding budgets.
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Marshall Craft Associates, Inc. provides full-service architectural planning, design and facilities management assistance services.
A dynamic architecture firm with a hard-earned reputation for reliably. We provide high-quality, technically advanced, solutions-based design—in all of our areas of expertise. Our teams work with remarkable clients who are leaders in their fields: Cultural + Civic, Historic + Adaptive Reuse, and Private Enterprise, k-12 and Higher Education, Healthcare, Federal Government, Science + Research.
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Milestone Systems is a global industry leader in open platform IP video management software; technology that helps the world see how to ensure safety, protect assets and increase business efficiency. Milestone enables an open platform community that drives collaboration and innovation in the development and use of network video technology with reliable and scalable solutions that are proven in more than 150,000 sites worldwide, providing flexible choices in network hardware and integrations with other systems. Sold through partners in more than 100 countries, Milestone solutions help organizations to manage risks, protect people and assets, optimize processes and reduce costs. Founded in 1998, Milestone is a stand-alone company in the Canon Group. For more information visit: http://www.milestonesys.com.
Milestone Systems is a leading provider of open platform IP video management software. We help organizations manage risks, protect people and assets, optimize processes, and reduce costs. Visit http://www.milestonesys.com.
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Monadnock designs and produces powerful and provocative media experiences for museums and cultural institutions. We work closely with architects, designers, and museum staff to seamlessly integrate media into the visitor experience. Our commitment to engaging audiences, uplifting unheard voices, and conveying honest history and science, combined with our knowledge of technology, results in novel experiences in every media form: immersive theaters, interactive environments, multiplayer games, AR/VR, and more.
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Purple Cow Career and Talent Development provides career coaching and talent development for clients from a range of fields, including museums, arts and culture, education, non-profit, federal service, and the corporate sector. Coaching clients are mid-career professionals making a career transition or rebounding from a job loss, senior-level colleagues looking to advance to the executive level or manage career transition, or emerging professionals looking to get a start in their careers. For organizations, Purple Cow offers guidance on culture alignment, projects, team dynamics, and strategic initiatives to help your people and your organization shine.
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Quatrefoil creates award-winning exhibitions and accessible interactives for museums, science centers, zoos and aquariums, historic places, cultural sites, and visitor attractions.Our collaborative approach centers community voices to create inclusive experiences that connect visitors’ stories with collections and promote participation in programs.
Quatrefoil designs take the anxiety out of investing in exhibits. We build flexible solutions, tailored to your team’s capacity, to make updates easy and keep exhibitions fresh and fluid. You work directly with the team members responsible for your project, so that communications and accountability are clear and response times quick.
Check out some of our work and let us know how we can help bring your vision to life!
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Risk Strategies was founded in Boston in 1997 as a different kind of broker. We always believed an insurance brokerage could be more — a trusted risk management advisor and partner where a focus on employee and client needs would create value and success.
Risk Strategies is a privately held U.S. brokerage firm and a part of the Accession Risk Management Group parent brand – a family of specialty insurance distribution and risk management companies.
We offer our clients comprehensive risk management advice, insurance and reinsurance placement in five core business segments:
-Property & Casualty
-Employee Benefits
-Private Client Services
-Consulting Services
-Financial & Wealth Solutions
With more than 30 specialty practices and 150 offices across North America, we are a top five player in many of our targeted industry and product line segments. Our growth has been fueled by both organic growth and a focus on M&A with more than 170 firms having joined the Accession family.
As the world becomes more dynamic and complex, so do our clients’ risks. Risk is not generic, nor are our clients’ needs. As an independent, specialty insurance broker, the foundation of our value proposition is a specialist approach. We provide the specialty insight, practical advice, and custom insurance to protect the things that matter most in life and business.
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Science is all around us. It shapes who we are and what we do, from the clothes we wear and the phones we carry, to the food we eat and the water we drink. But science has a past—a rich and often surprising past that reveals the origins of ideas and innovations that impact our daily lives.
The Science History Institute collects, preserves, interprets, and shares that past by exploring lesser-known and sometimes overlooked stories from the history of science and technology. And we don’t just mean discoveries made in laboratories. We dive deep into the history of scientific successes and failures, with a focus on expanding knowledge and broadening our understanding of how science and society intersect.
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Ranked #1 in Building Design & Constructions Top Museum Architecture Firms, SmithGroup is one of the world’s preeminent integrated design firms. Working across a network of 20 offices, our team of 1,400 experts is committed to excellence in strategy, planning, design, and delivery. Our Cultural Practice is comprised of multi-disciplinary experts that have dedicated their careers to solving the unique challenges of visitor- and collections-focused projects. We partner with forward-looking clients to solve your most complex problems.
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Solid Light is a nationally recognized design-build firm, delivering award-winning visitor experiences for 25 years. Solid Light’s 55,000 square-foot facility, located in Louisville, Ky., provides design, media, fabrication, and installation services for museums, branded environments, educational institutions, and public spaces.
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The Cooperstown Graduate Program is proud to be like no other. We train creative, entrepreneurial museum leaders committed to generating programs and services for the public good. Our students learn by doing tangible, useful work on real-world projects. They dedicate themselves to developing institutions that play a central role in their communities, encouraging broad public audiences to use artifacts and the study of science, art, and history as a catalyst for social change.
Students choose to focus on one of two tracks during their time at CGP: Science Museum Studies and History Museum Studies. Both tracks have a generalist curriculum, so students explore many aspects of museum work.
Our students benefit from small class sizes and a high faculty to student ratio. This allows students to get to know and work closely with professors, who are leaders and innovators in the field. Although CGP itself is a small program, as an academic division of SUNY College at Oneonta students also have access to the resources of a much larger state university.
We love to connect with prospective students, professionals in the field, alumni, or anyone interested in museum studies! Follow us on Twitter and check out our Facebook page.
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Because the big problems are always people problems…
Healthy and Healing Culture
- Leadership recognizes, communicates, and acts on topics and issues that erode a healthy and healing culture
- Staff at all levels attend interactive workshops and apply what they learn
- Staff actively participate in and contribute to a healthy and healing culture
Executive and Leadership Coaching
- Balance individuals’ needs so they can balance the needs of others
- Improve a key employee’s performance
- 360-degree and 720-degree performance assessments
Coaching: Profiles
- Performance coaching and management
- Keeping staff motivated, engaged, and moving forward
- Mitigating poor performance
Team Development
- Playing better together
- Organizations growing from adolescence to adulthood
- Succession planning – smoother transitions
Training
- Management, career and staff development
- Resiliency
- Trust, vulnerability, and difficult conversations
Change Management
- Creating an environment that supports change
- Vision/Mission/Values identification and reinforcement
- Rightsizing, downsizing, and termination strategies
Facilitations
- Board and senior staff facilitations
- New leader assimilation
- Polarity thinking
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The Projects Group (TPG) offers comprehensive owner’s representative / project management services for cultural projects where we can work on behalf of the owner, centering their best interests. As a certified 100% employee-owned firm, we provide impartial guidance tailored specifically to our clients’ objectives, from project development to completion. Our meticulous attention to detail, coupled with our capacity to predict and address challenges, ensures that projects transition seamlessly from ideas to lasting, sustainable landmarks within their communities. Through our productive partnerships, we also provide valuable master planning, cost estimating, and feasibility/market studies, providing the owner with critical information in the early stages of a project.
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Whiting-Turner has managed construction in the cultural industry for decades. We have completed projects across the nation for museums, zoos, and aquariums, religious facilities, performing arts, libraries, and community centers. We understand the complexities of working on these sensitive projects and bring the specific expertise to build high-quality, engaging establishments that enhance each guest’s experience.
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Campuses, organizations, and communities are transformed through Ziger|Snead Architect’s mission that great design can have a positive social impact. Clients value the firm’s dedication to a distilled design approach, focus on relationships, and active community engagement. Its projects have been recognized with more than 100 local, state, national, and international awards for design excellence.
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Zubatkin specializes in the planning and management of capital construction projects for museum, cultural, and educational clients across the East Coast. We provide leadership across all aspects of a project’s development— from real estate analyses, master planning and programming through design, approvals, construction, and turnover.