Our story

We've been in the room
where the hard decisions happen.

HEART Advisory Group was built for EDC work: people, process, and technology before AI, plus the custom builds when off-the-shelf tools fail. One integrated team, not a rotation of consultants.

Why we built HEART.

Joshua Edmond built HEART after years in business leadership and enterprise technology at Gartner and Oracle North America, plus EDC board service and entrepreneurship programming with EDC partners.

The same pattern kept showing up: EDCs asked to adopt AI and new vendors before staff, process, and data were ready. Off-the-shelf tools failed in the field, so we started building our own.

EDCs needed one integrated team for assessment, technical architecture, vendor scoring, and custom development, not a roster of specialists who never talk to each other.

HEART Advisory Group is that team.

Human-Centered. Economic Development.
AI. Risk. Technology.

One team. One phone call. One direction.

H Human-Centered
E Economic Development
A AI
R Risk
T Technology

The team

Expertise your EDC
can call on.

Joshua Edmond

Principal & Lead Advisor

Joshua Edmond

Principal & Lead Advisor

19 Years Sales EDC Board Experience Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Program Founder

Joshua has nineteen years in business leadership and thirteen in enterprise technology, including Gartner and Oracle North America. He has served on an EDC board and helped launch entrepreneurship programs with EDC partners. He built HEART after seeing the same pattern repeat: tools purchased before staff could run them, and communities without the technology to support entrepreneurs when growth showed up. He holds a degree in Business Administration. When HEART advises your team, you get practitioners, not a slide-deck tour.

Shar-Day Edmond

Human Strategy & Employment Law

Shar-Day Edmond

Human Strategy & Employment Law

Employment Attorney Employment Risk Specialist Former State HR Director

Shar-Day Edmond is an employment attorney who also led HR for Texas state agencies. She writes policies, documentation, and manager training that still work when relationships break down, regulators ask questions, or a termination gets contested. For HEART clients, that means your people are treated fairly, managers know the rules, and the organization is protected when ambiguity would otherwise create liability. She is direct and practical about what will hold up in the real world.

Nishant Vyas

Supply Chain & Operations

Nishant Vyas

Supply Chain & Operations

Six Sigma Certified Supply Chain Expert Operations Specialist

Nishant Vyas is a Six Sigma certified supply chain expert. He finds fragility in operations that growing businesses often miss until a vendor fails or a deadline slips. Single-source vendors, informal procurement, and weak backup plans look fine in a spreadsheet until they are not. He redesigns systems around real constraints, documents decisions so knowledge stays in the organization, and builds resilience without chasing efficiency for its own sake. He explains options in plain language so leadership can act before the emergency call.

What we believe

Five principles.
Every engagement.

Human First

EDC staff and the business community you serve are people first. Clear roles, policies, and transitions keep programs credible when budgets are tight.

Integrated Thinking

Program risk, vendor choices, and AI pilots connect. We treat your EDC as one system, not a list of separate consultants.

Community Matters

We are based in Buda, Texas. We deliver online or on site, anywhere. EDC board and program experience is our proof, not a geographic limit on who we serve.

Prevention Over Reaction

The best time to fix a risk is before it becomes a crisis. We build the systems that mean you never have to make that emergency call.

Honest Advice

We'll tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. That's what partners do.

Ready to work with a team
that knows EDC technology and delivery?