Accomplished Strategist.
Proven Deliverer.
Jelani House is the Founder and Principal Consultant of House Strategies Group — an SBA-certified 8(a) advisory firm delivering finance, real estate, and management consulting to federal agencies and private sector clients. He brings over 20 years of experience leading high-visibility engagements across housing finance, credit markets, real estate portfolios, and workforce modernization.
Jelani has worked at the intersection of policy, financial analysis, and program execution across some of the federal government’s most consequential institutions — including HUD, Ginnie Mae, the Department of Veterans Affairs, USDA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. His career spans roles at Guidehouse (Big 4-caliber consulting), NOVAD Management Consulting, and Emax Partners before he launched HSG in 2024.
As an Engagement Manager and Associate Director at Guidehouse, Jelani led over $43 million in federal contract work — including a $12.9M Ginnie Mae capital markets analytics engagement that he personally captured, staffed, and managed end-to-end across four partner firms. He has managed teams of 30+ senior professionals, directed investor roadshows, facilitated interagency working groups with Treasury and the Federal Reserve, and built some of the federal government’s most sophisticated financial performance dashboards.
Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at NOVAD as the client-facing Project Manager for HUD’s Program Financial Advisor contract — responsible for valuation models, loan sale strategies, and transaction analytics across multifamily, healthcare, and single-family asset classes. He also originated and secured a $1M BPR engagement for HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling entirely through his own business development effort.
At HSG, Jelani combines that institutional depth with entrepreneurial speed — leveraging AI-enabled automation, practitioner-grade tools like the Federal Policy Tracker, and a direct-delivery model that brings Big 4 quality without Big 4 overhead. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and English Literature from the University of Virginia.