Cheryl Slover-Linett founded Slover Linett Strategies in 1997 and has led its growth into one of the most respected audience research firms in the culture and education sectors. She has built long-term relationships with renowned institutions such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the University of Chicago, and has become a trusted conduit to minds and hearts of audiences for these and other leading organizations. In the twelve years since Cheryl founded the firm, she has designed and led hundreds of strategic audience and market research studies and evaluations.
Cheryl speaks frequently at nonprofit conferences and has presented research findings to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the League of American Orchestras, the American Association of Museums, the Visitor Studies Association, and the National Arts Marketing Project.
Cheryl serves on the advisory council of Mass Audubon’s Visual Arts Center in Canton, Massachusetts and on the board of directors of the Geneva Foundation in Chicago. She recently helped launch Lead Feather, a nonprofit that uses Native American traditions to foster environmental leadership and connectedness.
Prior to forming Slover Linett, Cheryl held marketing positions at United Airlines in Chicago, at a Madrid-based subsidiary of Heineken, and at Broad Inc. in Los Angeles. Conversant in Spanish, she has lived and worked in Spain, Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands.
Cheryl earned an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School, where she was also an international management fellow at the Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER). She earned her B.A. in economics from Yale University.
