Diagnosis first. Everything else follows.
Schumacher Consultancy doesn't offer a menu. It offers a sequence. Every engagement starts with measurement, because the intervention your institution needs depends on the gaps it has, and most institutions are guessing.
If You've Said One of These
Out Loud This Year.
Organizational
Readiness Assessment.
Know what your institution can sustain before you commit another budget cycle.
The MTWM AI Readiness Assessment scores your institution across eight dimensions in three areas, using evidence your leadership can verify. You leave with a readiness baseline, the critical risk flags that predict stalled initiatives, and one to three recommendations you can act on immediately.
- The board is asking about AI and you have no baseline to answer from.
- You deployed and adoption stalled, and the root cause is unclear.
- You're planning enterprise AI in administrative or shared services operations and want the conditions measured before the spend.
What the assessment finds shapes what comes next.
Where the Gaps Are
Determines Where We Start.
AI Strategy, Governance & Integration
A functional governance model your institution will use, not a policy document no one reads.
Assessment findings become a working strategy: decision rights for AI adoption, a governance structure matched to how your institution already operates, an integration roadmap, and role and workflow redesign where the roadmap requires it. Built for administrative and shared services operations, where AI ROI is most measurable and most often missed.
- You own the institutional AI mandate and need governance that functions outside a committee charter.
- AI use is spreading faster than your policies can absorb.
- You need an integration roadmap your cabinet will recognize as achievable.
Facilitated Training Sessions & Workshops
Capability building that doubles as diagnosis.
Structured working sessions for leadership teams, functional units, and cross-departmental groups. Every workshop includes a diagnostic component, so your institution leaves with new capability and a clearer read on its own readiness signals. Sessions are built from your context, not a generic curriculum.
- Your leadership team needs shared language about AI before the next planning cycle.
- A department or shared services unit is adopting AI and the skills gap is visible.
- You want training that produces evidence, not just attendance.
Executive Leadership Coaching
Confidential support for the leader who owns the AI mandate.
One-to-one coaching for provosts, vice presidents, CIOs, CHROs, and deans carrying institutional AI responsibility. Focused on the decisions in front of you and calibrated to your institution's political reality.
- You inherited the AI mandate and the path forward is contested.
- You need a sounding board who knows higher education and knows readiness.
- The initiative's success depends on decisions only you can make.
When the situation doesn't fit a category, the assessment still tells us where to start.
Let's Talk.
Thirty minutes, no pitch. Bring the initiative that's harder than it should be.