Ad Verum Partners is a new boutique strategy consulting firm founded with the goal of helping universities better achieve their core missions.
We serve leaders (especially Deans, Provosts and Presidents) who must decide how to utilize limited resources to achieve (virtually) unlimited goals. Put differently, we help you discern:
Do we have the right goals for our specific context?
How do we align our resources (both financial and human) with those goals?
We bring particular expertise in finance, data analysis and organizational design, but always in service of a greater purpose:
making and acting on better decisions.
Tim Pavlis founded Ad Verum after creating Yale’s internal strategy and analytics team for the Provost, building on over a decade in professional services at leading consulting firms including Bain & Co.
Ad Verum’s approach joins these two threads of Tim’s experience, pairing (1) the highest level of analytical rigor with (2) a deep appreciation of the unique culture of universities and their impact on decision-making and change.
Yale’s former Provost Ben Polak chairs Ad Verum’s board of advisors and consults in select engagements.
Ad Verum never delivers boilerplate advice; instead, it collaborates as a partner who amplifies the capabilities of your team to craft solutions for your particular context. We measure our impact by your success.