Our Mission

Hart Consulting Services is a small retail focused firm dedicated to consulting with both the graphic communications market and major Brands & Retailers executing In-Store.

Graphic Communication Companies

In these competitive times it may be difficult to determine what is missing from a firm’s strategy or communication plan. HCS has over 25 years in the custom manufacturing and graphic communications marketplace. We assist our clients by converting the verbal tradition of selling your business solutions into a strong value proposition that will resonate with your customers and help secure new opportunities.

Brands & Retailers

In today’s challenging economy, how do you determine whether your team has chosen the best vendor partners? What is the process and parameters you use to verify whether you are working with the correct graphic communications supplier?
In most organizations, legacy relationships drive vendor selection with no true audit of regional or national options. How many times have you heard we are not considering new suppliers at this time? Why not?

HCS allows you to validate your choices through reporting metrics produced through a third parties external audit of project requirements and vendor capabilities. Establishing specific attributes required to manage existing or new programs and performing spot audits to verify that you are utilizing the proper technology or media enables you to meet or exceed your needs based upon client evolving retail initiatives.

The Team

Brian Hart - The Principal
Brian Hart, has over 25 years experience in the custom manufacturing and graphic communications marketplace. He has been involved with start-ups, privately held businesses, and small and medium private equity-based companies. Brian’s consultative focus is to quickly evaluate or identify: The right people and teams for success, Assist in developing the correct processes, Develop tools to sustain and measure the change or improvement.

His focus for the last ten years has been on optimizing support teams execution prerogatives with in the In-Store marketplace.
Industry specific consultants allow quick assessment with zero bias and a third-party industry opinion. A consultant keeps headcount low while affecting rapid change without undermining the existing business culture. An industry-specific consultant avoids fee-based educations of a business sector and offer immediate change through evaluation/ discovery, recommendation, implementation training and measurement.

Helen Kyte - Independent Retail In-Store Graphics Program Management
Program Management is the process of managing re-occurring campaigns that can be extended into multiple In-Store locations. In-Store Graphics environments pose many challenges in effectively documenting the many variables which lead to proven success in extending campaign specific changes in the In-Store space. Helen has led and worked on teams that have established effective In-Store programs with well known brands like adidas, Nike, Starbucks and Columbia Sportswear. Helen has a deep understanding of the In-Store environment and has effectively trained many teams to be increasingly more effective on tracking site specific details which allow for the reduction of waste when executing In-Store graphic programs.

Clayton Marsh - Creative Direction
Clayton provides the option for creative’s to extend their effectiveness through partnering. He has worked with many retail creative teams and acts as a brand extension partner that get’s it. He is very familiar with the balance between creativity and extending an existing concept to fit multiple site specific location challenges. His eye and experience tell him to design with a forward thinking process, while evaluating projects from final In-store implementation process. Combined his integrated approach lends to saving cost and providing powerful ideas and visual impact In-store.

Minna Jyvala - Senior Designer and Interaction Specialist
Highly technical and a fluent translator of creative direction to tactical implementation.

Extend your in house creative team by allowing them to focus on innovation and our team to extend existing concepts to cite specific details.