Who We Are
A cultural strategy and advisory firm working with institutions at the intersection of culture, leadership, and global positioning. We work with a deliberately limited number of clients each year to ensure the quality of attention each engagement deserves.
What We Do
We work with leaders to strengthen positioning, sharpen narrative direction, and deepen how institutions engage the communities they serve. Our approach integrates strategic rigor with cultural context, ensuring that what institutions communicate reflects not only what they do but what they stand for within a shifting global landscape.
What We Believe
We believe culture is not a backdrop - but a shaping force, structuring how meaning is formed, how values are expressed, and how futures are imagined and realized.
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Cultural Foresight & Strategic Guidance
We work with leaders to interpret cultural shifts, anticipate emerging expectations, and clarify long-term direction.
Grounded in cultural intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and strategic foresight, our work supports decision-making during moments of growth, transition, and reorientation. We help leaders understand how meaning, legitimacy, and relevance are evolving so they can act with intention and confidence.
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Cultural Expression & Narrative Design
We translate strategy into cultural expression, advising on how institutions are experienced in public life. We design the narrative architecture that guides campaigns, platforms, exhibitions, and programming — ensuring coherence between visual identity, language, and lived experience.
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Narrative & Institutional Positioning
We work with institutions to clarify who they are, what they stand for, and how they are understood within a complex local and global cultural landscape. Through narrative strategy and positioning, we bring mission, values, leadership voice, and public presence into coherence — so that institutions communicate with credibility and purpose.
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Cultural Initiatives and Consumer Brands
We work with cultural initiatives and consumer brands whose influence extends beyond the market into the cultural landscape they help shape. We support organizations engaging local and global audiences within shifting value systems, helping them define purpose, strengthen narrative, and express their ideas with coherence and conviction.
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Cultural & Civic Organizations
We partner with cultural and civic organizations navigating a shifting cultural and global landscape. From museums and cultural centers to public initiatives and cross-border programs, we help organizations clarify their role, articulate their values, and bring leadership, programming, and public presence into alignment with long-term purpose.
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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
”The insights provided are valuable to our team and expand our knowledge of the field at large while also encouraging us to think outside of the box. The tactical approach to communications is helpful in building strategies for our campaigns.
”E36 provides clear direction, concise goals, and suggestions, and a positive and creative atmosphere.
”It truly feels like a wrap-around partnership... the quality of relationship building, which accompanies the deep communications work is incredibly valuable in the way in produces clear and knowledgeable content.
”E36 has done a great job of jumping in and quickly elevating our work.