Vendors deliver tasks. A firm takes accountability for outcomes. We sit inside your organization, integrate across strategy, IT, finance, and people, and stay until the work holds.
Organizations built for good rarely fail from lack of passion. They get stretched thin when judgment falters on a key hire. When financial complexity outgrows the people managing it. When the board stops asking the right questions. When the strategy quietly stops keeping pace with the world it's meant to serve.
These are the strains we see again and again: financial blind spots, people systems under pressure, strategy that hasn't caught up, and technology that slows leadership down. They are why Novum is structured the way it is. Strategy, IT, finance, and people are not separate problems. They are one system. We built a firm that treats them that way.
We work with organizations from $10M to the billions. At that scale, the stakes are real and the margin for operational error is thin. We know this territory because we have guided organizations through it. Not by handing over a playbook, but by sitting in the room and doing the work.
400+
organizations served. Three integrated disciplines. One firm committed to endurance, not activity.
How We Show Up
What PwC, EY, Bain, and McKinsey are to the corporate world, Novum is to organizations built for good.
Strategic Guides
We help leaders see clearly when the path forward is not obvious. This means honest diagnosis, structured thinking, and counsel that accounts for what the numbers say and what they don't. We do not hand you a report. We help you understand what it means and what to do next.
Expert Operators
Strategy without execution is just advice. Our team members have built and run the systems we recommend. Payroll, budgets, HR infrastructure, compliance frameworks. We operate inside your organization at your scale, in your sector, with the credibility that comes from having done it before.
Redemptive Partners
We believe organizations can be restored, not just optimized. When trust has eroded, when leadership transitions have left gaps, when the mission has drifted from its foundation, we do not just patch. We help rebuild what matters. We measure success by endurance, not activity.
Our Team
The People Behind the Work
We are practitioners, not theorists. Every member of the Novum team has built and run the systems we recommend.
Leadership Team
Brad Hobbs, Ph.D
Founder & CEO
Brian Anderson
CFO / CSO
Angela Smith
Director of Client and Team Success
Craig Lowder, CPA
Director of Accounting Services
Kimberly Medecke, SHRM
Director of HR Services
Maia Atteberry
Communications & Executive Projects Manager
Accounting Team
Colette Dow, CPA
Controller / Accounting Manager
Isaac Rohne, CPA
Accounting Strategist
TJ Rigg, CPA
Accounting Strategist
Taryn Stine, CPA
Controller / CFO
Wendy Carpenter
Sr. Accountant
Alyssa Candelaria
Sr. Accountant
Alison Carter
Sr. Accountant
Eunice Armstrong
Sr. Accountant
Rachel Hardesty, CPA
Controller / Sr. Accountant
Chamelle Johnson, CPA Candidate
Associate Accountant
Tashea Hartpence
Associate Accountant
Frances Davis
Associate Accountant
Diana Rutherford
Associate Accountant
Taylor Hamrick
Associate Accountant
TeAira Adu
Associate Accountant
Natalie Grim
Associate Accountant
Jenny Clark
Accounting Specialist
Pamela Brown
Payables Specialist
Layna Tapia
Donor Management Specialist
Allison Warren
Bookkeeper
Sarah Perez
Bookkeeper
HR & Payroll Team
Elizabeth Reininger, SPHR, CPLC
HR Adviser
Jennifer Daugherty
HR Adviser
Sarah Olson, PHR
HR Adviser
Kathleen Jansky
HR Specialist
Desi Jenson
Payroll Manager
Victoria Lewis
Payroll Coordinator
Consulting Team
Luke Francis, Ph.D. Candidate
Senior Consultant
David Stine, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Scott Heare
Consultant
Mandy Brown
Consultant
What Sets Us Apart
Integrated, Not Siloed
Your financial decisions affect your people. Your people decisions affect your mission. We do not operate in separate lanes. Strategy, finance, and HR are aligned around one set of goals because that is how organizations actually work.
Built for Your Scale
We serve organizations from $10M to the billions, and partner with high-growth organizations from $3M when fit is right. That is where the complexity escalates but the infrastructure has not caught up. We focus here because it is where we do our best work.
Your Team, Not a Tool
Real advisors who take ownership of outcomes. Not a software subscription with a support ticket. Not consultants who bill hours and disappear. We stay accountable to the work, not just the contract.
Endurance, Not Just Stability
Protecting what you have is necessary. Building what lasts is the point. We help you create the operational foundation for the next decade, not just the next quarter.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions leaders ask before they call.
What is Novum Partners?
Novum Partners is a strategic management firm serving faith-driven businesses, churches, and nonprofits. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Novum delivers integrated Consulting, IT Strategy, Finance and Accounting, and HR services under one accountable team. The firm exists to strategically guide and steward the resources of organizations built for good, for the goodness of all humanity. Novum operates as Strategic Guides, Expert Operators, and Redemptive Partners across engagements that typically span 12 to 36 months. Core engagement size is $5M to $250M in annual revenue. Novum is not a CPA firm, a search firm, a PEO, or a broker. The firm sits on the leadership side of the table, sets strategy, builds the operating model, embeds fractional executive leadership, and stays in the cadence until the work compounds.
Who founded Novum Partners?
Brad Hobbs, Ph.D. founded Novum Partners in 2023. Brad serves as CEO and Founder. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership with a focus on Change Management and brings over 15 years advising mission-driven organizations across four continents from Fortune 500 to global nonprofits to top 10 churches. Before founding Novum, Brad held senior operating and advisory roles across the faith-driven sector, with sustained work in church operations, nonprofit governance, kingdom-aligned investing, and international development. He is married to Lauren, lives in San Antonio with their children, and serves as the public face of the firm in keynotes, board advisory, and the most senior client relationships. Brad's leadership style is direct, frameworks-driven, and anchored in long-term stewardship rather than transactional consulting.
Where is Novum Partners located?
Novum Partners is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm serves clients across the United States with a fully distributed senior team and on-site engagement when the work requires it. San Antonio is the operational base; the client base spans evangelical churches across most regions, nonprofits operating in every major US market, and faith-driven businesses headquartered from Texas to the Mountain West to the Eastern Seaboard. For multi-state and multi-campus engagements, Novum's leaders travel to the client site for board meetings, leadership intensives, strategic planning sessions, and the operating reviews that benefit from being in the room. The remainder of the work is delivered remotely with the same standards and the same named senior leaders.
How much does Novum Partners cost?
Novum Partners engagements are tailored to context and scoped at proposal. Monthly investment starts at $1,000 per month and scales with the depth of the engagement, the size of the organization, and the verticals included (Consulting, IT Strategy, Finance and Accounting, HR with Payroll as a subset). A small church or nonprofit running HR Advising as a standalone tier sits near the floor. A faith-driven business engaging Consulting, Finance and Accounting at the Strategic tier, and full-service Payroll with multi-state coverage sits substantially higher. Novum does not publish a price book. Every prospect receives a proposal that lays out scope, tier selection, fractional executive seats, multi-state surcharges where applicable, and the projected monthly investment for the first 12 months of engagement. Pricing is transparent inside the proposal and locked at engagement letter.
Is Novum Partners a CPA firm?
Novum Partners is a strategic management firm, not a CPA firm. Inside the Finance and Accounting vertical, Novum's controllers and account managers hold CPA and CMA credentials, and the firm operates as a financial advisory and operating-services practice. Novum does not prepare tax returns, sign audit opinions, or perform attestation work. Those functions belong with the client's CPA firm or external auditor. Where the client does not already have a CPA, Novum maintains a vetted network of CPA partners and coordinates the handoff. The practical model: Novum runs the books, holds the monthly close to standard, builds the audit binder, drafts the Form 990 package, and partners directly with the CPA on tax filings and audit fieldwork. Two firms, one operating cadence, clean lines of accountability.
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