Your community is growing. Make sure it's built to last.

HEART Advisory Group helps Texas communities and their businesses eliminate risk, optimize operations, and scale with confidence, across HR, supply chain, technology, and strategy.

  • Human Centered
  • Economic Development
  • Advisory
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Technology
  • EDC Board Member
  • 18 Years Experience
  • Six Sigma Supply Chain
  • Employment Law
  • Texas

Why businesses call us

Growth is exciting.
Until it isn't.

Most businesses don't fail because of bad ideas. They fail because growth reveals every weakness that was always there.

The risk isn't the idea — it's what growth exposes.

In your people. In your processes. In your supply chain. In your strategy.

At 50 employees, new HR laws kick in. At 100, your supply chain starts showing cracks. At 150, one employment claim can cost $75,000+. At 200, you're running a company that needs infrastructure you haven't built yet.

We've seen it. We fix it. We build what keeps it — and your risk profile — fixed.

$75,000+

Average cost of a single employment lawsuit

50 employees

When FMLA and ACA compliance kicks in

68%

Of supply chain disruptions are preventable

1 in 3

Growing businesses face a serious HR issue within 2 years

What we do

Two ways we serve Texas.

Growth concentrates hidden risk in HR, supply chain, and execution — especially between 50 and 200 employees. Choose how we plug in.

For Growing Businesses · 50–200 Employees

Build the foundation your growth demands.

Most businesses at your stage are carrying risk they can't see — in their HR practices, their supply chain, their operations, and their strategy. We find it. We fix it. We build what protects you next.

  • HR Strategy & Employment Risk
  • Supply Chain Resilience
  • Business Strategy & Operations
  • Technology & Automation
  • Risk Assessment & Mitigation

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For EDCs · Chambers · Cities

Build the foundation your business community needs.

Great communities don't just attract businesses. They support them. We design and deliver the programs that turn good intentions into measurable economic growth — without ignoring financial, legal, or operational risk.

  • Ecosystem Gap Analysis
  • Program Design & Blueprint
  • Program Launch & Management
  • Workshop Series & Cohorts
  • Ecosystem Health Reports

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Our difference

Not another consulting firm. Your unfair advantage.

Five letters. One integrated standard — pain first, proof second, risk named explicitly.

H — Human Centered

Your people are your biggest asset. And your biggest liability.

One misclassified employee. One missing policy. One undocumented termination. That's all it takes to turn growth into a $75,000 legal bill — and that's legal risk, not bad intentions. Our team includes an employment attorney with director-level HR experience from Texas state agencies. Your people — and your business — protected.

E — Economic Development

Your community has the ambition. It's missing the infrastructure.

Most EDC entrepreneurship programs don't fail because of bad intentions. They fail because the ecosystem was designed before anyone mapped what already existed. We've built these programs from scratch in Texas. We sit on EDC boards. We know what your stakeholders will fund — and what they'll defund after year two.

A — Advisory

You've hired consultants before. They gave you a deck and disappeared.

The problem is still there. The deck is in a drawer. We stay until the problem is solved — from the first discovery call through final implementation. That's what advisory actually means when the downside risk still sits with you, not with us.

R — Risk Mitigation

Every business we've worked with had a risk they couldn't see.

In their HR practices. In their supply chain. In their growth strategy. In their technology. We find the exposure before it becomes a crisis. We build the systems that keep it from coming back. That's not risk management. That's risk elimination.

T — Technology

Modern technology for businesses that need it most.

From AI-powered automation assessments to custom procurement tools — we bring the same technology that enterprise companies use to businesses with 50–200 employees. Not because it's trendy. Because it eliminates cost, risk, and guesswork. When advisory work in the field demanded tools that did not exist, we built them — including ChatEDC for EDCs and chambers.

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Trusted by Texas organizations and communities.

The proof isn't our pitch — it's what we've helped leaders measure before risk became the headline.

18 Years

Sales & business leadership experience

$0

Employment lawsuits for clients with our HR framework

50–200

The employee range where risk multiplies fastest

Six Sigma

Supply chain expertise on every engagement

3

Expert disciplines. One integrated team.

The team

Three disciplines. One team. Already in your market.

No fluff bios. Just who's accountable — including who's watched preventable employment risk land on small-business desks.

Joshua Edmond

Principal & Lead Advisor

Joshua Edmond

Principal & Lead Advisor

19 years sales, EDC board experience, entrepreneur, and founder of entrepreneurship programming in Texas.

Shar-Day "Daisy" Edmond

Human Strategy & Employment Law

Shar-Day "Daisy" Edmond

Human Strategy & Employment Law

Employment attorney and former Assistant Director of HR for Texas state agencies. Protecting businesses — and the people in them — before HR risk goes legal.

Nishant Vyas

Supply Chain & Operations

Nishant Vyas

Supply Chain & Operations

Six Sigma certified supply chain expert. We find the fragility — and the operational risk hiding behind it — before it becomes a crisis.

Meet the full team

If you're Googling the answer,
you need us on the phone.

HEART Advisory Group was built for one reason — Texas organizations and communities deserve better than piecemeal advice from disconnected consultants.

One team. One call. Every dimension of your organization covered — including the operational risk no spreadsheet warns you about.

Most business owners are six months away from a problem they don't know they have. A discovery call costs nothing. Not having one can cost everything.