Work with Brad
Counsel first. Then the firm that builds it.
Brad advises a small number of leaders directly, most by introduction. Advice does not build anything, though. Capacity does. So he built a firm, not a practice. Novum Partners is a strategic management firm serving faith-driven businesses, churches, and nonprofits: one team that sets the strategy with your leadership and stays to run the finance, people, and technology that make it hold. San Antonio, Texas. More than 400 organizations served since 2021.
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Why a firm
Vision does not scale. Margin does. Systems do. Courageous leadership does.
Brad's first year of full-time consulting scaled to a hundred clients. In year two he watched most of them stall. He was handing incredible strategy to operations leaders still running yesterday's playbook, and they could not make the transition. So he stopped selling advice and built the capacity: an HR practice, a finance and accounting practice, accountants who had left Big Four firms to do work that matters, and a technology practice to hold it together.
That is Novum. Strategy that leadership owns and the organization can run, with the firm staying in the cadence until the work compounds. What PwC, EY, Bain, and McKinsey are to the corporate world, Novum is to organizations built for good.
How the firm works
Discover. Build. Steward.
Every engagement runs through the same three phases. What changes is the depth.
Discover
Where you are, and what makes you unique
The 4-S Diagnostic across Soul, Strategy, Structure, and Systems. Stakeholder interviews. Financial and operational context. The full picture before a single prescription.
Build
The right setup, so leadership can decide
The strategy co-written with the leadership team, the operating model designed, the org redrawn where needed, and the cadences and scorecards that make the plan run.
Steward
Growth, stewarded with you
Quarterly strategic reviews, board and executive coaching, and the finance, people, and technology infrastructure run by Novum's team so the strategy holds as the organization changes.
What Novum delivers
Strategic Consulting
Strategic planning, growth and expansion, turnarounds, M&A advisory, organizational design, board development, executive coaching, donor development. Led by Brad.
Finance and Accounting
Bookkeeping, controller, FP&A, and fractional CFO leadership, with reports by the tenth business day.
HR and Payroll
Advisory, benefits, complete outsourced HR, and payroll, including clergy compensation and multi-state compliance.
IT Strategy
Technology roadmap, ERP selection, cybersecurity, and fractional CTO and CIO leadership.
Who Novum serves
Faith-driven businesses
Founder-led and family-led companies where the next chapter never comes from the playbook that built the last one.
For businessesNonprofits
Mission-driven organizations at scale, in the United States and abroad, with restricted funds, grant reporting, and a board that wants a three-year plan.
For nonprofitsChurches
Growing single-campus and multi-site congregations and networks, including some of the largest churches in the country.
For churchesTwo ways to start
Write to Brad, or start with the firm.
If you lead something consequential and the decision in front of you is the kind that shapes a decade, write to Brad directly. If you want the firm's read on your organization first, the free 7x Growth Readiness check names your binding constraint in five minutes.