WHEN HBG IS USEFUL
When important work needs structure.
GROWTH &
TRANSITION
The organization has grown or changed, but its systems, priorities, or operating model have not kept pace.
GOVERNANCE & DECISIONS
A consequential decision requires clearer authority, stronger alignment, and greater accountability.
The organization has grown or changed, but its systems, priorities, or operating model have not kept pace.
GROWTH & TRANSITION
IDEAS & IMPLEMENTATION
A promising idea needs structure, ownership, resources, and a practical path from intention to execution.
INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGY & OPERATIONS
Clarifying priorities, strengthening operating structures, and developing practical plans for growth, transition, and implementation.
COMMUNITY & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Aligning institutions, investment, partnerships, and implementation around stronger communities and more durable opportunity.
HBG provides focused advisory support where strategy, institutional responsibility, and implementation must work together.
Ways to work with HBG.
ADVISORY SERVICES
GOVERNANCE & EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Helping executives, boards, founders, and public leaders navigate authority, accountability, risk, and consequential decisions.
LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Advising and developing professionals assuming greater responsibility, navigating transition, or preparing for their next stage of leadership.
HOW WE WORK
Strategy informed by implementation.
Good strategy must survive implementation. Harris Beaumont Group begins by understanding the institution, the people responsible for it, the decisions that must be made, and the conditions affecting execution. We then establish a practical path forward with clear priorities, defined responsibility, and disciplined follow-through.
01
LISTEN
Understand the institution, the objective, the constraints, and the people involved.
02
CLARIFY
Define the central issue, establish priorities, and distinguish immediate needs from longer-term objectives.
03
ALIGN
Connect strategy, authority, resources, stakeholders, and responsibility around a workable course of action.
04
MOVE
Translate decisions into defined actions, milestones, accountability, and measurable progress.
EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE FIRM
Built across institutions. Tested where decisions carry consequence.
Harris Beaumont Group draws upon Michael O. Harris’s more than fifteen years of leadership across financial services, nonprofit organizations, public institutions, redevelopment, and civic life. His experience spans executive management, governance, enterprise risk, financial stewardship, resource development, land use, community investment, and the difficult work of moving priorities through complex institutional environments.
CAPITAL & PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
His record includes expanding organizational funding capacity by approximately 375 percent, securing more than $1 million for small-business development, workforce initiatives, corridor revitalization, and community investment, and generating approximately $450,000 in corporate, governmental, and philanthropic support.
OPERATIONS, RISK & ACCOUNTABILITY
Michael’s foundation includes six years in enterprise business continuity, crisis management, risk, and records management within financial services. He coordinated the consolidation of more than 100,000 enterprise records following a major corporate divestiture and has led organizations through independent audits, compliance requirements, financial controls, and operational transition.
INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE
Michael has led strategy, operations, redevelopment, governance, and external affairs for public and nonprofit institutions. His work has required close coordination with governing boards, elected officials, legal counsel, financial institutions, public agencies, developers, and community stakeholders.
CAPITAL & PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
His record includes expanding organizational funding capacity by approximately 375 percent, securing more than $1 million for small-business development, workforce initiatives, corridor revitalization, and community investment, and generating approximately $450,000 in corporate, governmental, and philanthropic support.
OPERATIONS, RISK & ACCOUNTABILITY
Michael’s foundation includes six years in enterprise business continuity, crisis management, risk, and records management within financial services. He coordinated the consolidation of more than 100,000 enterprise records following a major corporate divestiture and has led organizations through independent audits, compliance requirements, financial controls, and operational transition.
COMMUNITY & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
His work has advanced affordable housing, neighborhood stabilization, property redevelopment, small-business support, workforce development, and community investment. He also helped establish the Memphis Metropolitan Green Financial Corporation, launched with $150,000 in seed funding from the Tennessee Valley Authority to support energy efficiency, green infrastructure, and sustainable development.
PUBLIC SYSTEMS & COMPLEX IMPLEMENTATION
Michael’s experience includes working within statutory land-bank authority, overseeing contested property and redevelopment matters, supporting legislative changes, and helping institutions navigate the intersection of law, policy, finance, governance, and public consequence.
15+ YEARS
Leadership across public, nonprofit, corporate, financial-services, and community environments.
Selected outcomes reflect Michael O. Harris’s prior institutional leadership and professional experience. They are not presented as Harris Beaumont Group client results.
375%
Approximate expansion in organizational funding capacity under prior institutional leadership.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
$1 MILLION+
Secured for small-business, workforce, corridor-revitalization, and community-development initiatives.
100,000+
Enterprise records consolidated following a major corporate divestiture.
$1 MILLION+