Patrick Keiser is the Founder and Executive Director of Heart on Main Street. He holds a B.S in Secondary Education from Texas Christian University and has completed a Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations program at Northwestern University.  While at TCU, Patrick discovered a passion for building supportive communities and developing culture, and he has carried this into his professional life. Patrick served as an educator and coach in Fort Worth, TX for six years before making a transition to the corporate world, starting a role with the wholesale sales and marketing company OneCoast in 2016.

At OneCoast, Patrick found his home working with an organization that services independent retailers around the country. He was able to combine his passions of learning and educating to help others better serve their communities. But Patrick believed he could be doing more independent retailers and Main Street communities.

In 2021, he conceptualized the idea of bringing together the efforts of companies and organizations that relied on Main Street businesses to provide more tools, resources, and education to retailers across the country. With the belief that combining efforts of many, they would be able to accomplish more than they would individually, Heart on Main Street was born in 2022.