Welcome to Hardie Leadership Consulting
Overstories, Understories, and the Messy Middle
How Leaders Cultivate Healthy Organizations
BOOK SCOTT TO SPEAK AT YOUR NEXT EVENT
Speaker, Author, Coach, Consultant
"When our need for a keynote at a training seminar came up, Scott Brown's name was the first and only one I thought of. Scott's witty and insightful presentation style created a positive start to our event. His speech focused on our audience's needs with humor and personality that won everyone. If you're looking for an outstanding presenter, Scott Brown will exceed your expectations." - K.Krajci
Scott Brown’s talk on Overstories was insightful, engaging, and deeply practical. He weaves powerful stories with actionable frameworks that inspire leaders to think differently about culture and impact. Our team left energized and challenged to create healthier ecosystems in our work. I highly recommend him as a speaker." - D. Wilkins
What to Expect
Scott offers several keynote speeches and workshops:
✅ Growing Healthy Organizations
✅ The Habits of Leadership
✅ Play a Different Game
How We Help
Why Us
Our Story
Our Story
Every leader has a story. But is your story shaping your organization for growth ... or holding it back?
Most leaders never pause to examine their overstories ... the beliefs, narratives, and mental models that define their culture ... or their understories ... the daily habits, processes, and unspoken rules that drive behavior. Instead, they spend their time trying to navigate the messy middle ... the gap between good intentions and lived actions.
Here’s the truth ... people don’t quit companies. They quit bad bosses, misaligned cultures, and toxic behaviors.
At The Hardie Consulting Group, we help leaders close that gap.
Founded by Scott Brown, author of Overstories, Understories, and the Messy Middle, we show organizations how to uncover their unique leadership voice, build clear cultural alignment, and design workplaces where people actually want to stay, grow, and thrive.
We specialize in helping leaders:
✅ Discover their unique leadership voice and deliver their message with confidence, connection, and clarity
✅ Align their overstories and understories to drive trust and performance
✅ Build healthy organizational cultures that attract, develop, and retain top talent
✅ Transform the messy middle into a thriving ecosystem of clarity, creativity, and connection
When your stories, habits, and leadership are aligned, your organization gains its ultimate competitive advantage ... one that no competitor can replicate ... an engaged, inspired, high-performing culture.
💡 Are you ready to unlock your people’s potential?
If you’re tired of quick fixes, toxic turnover, and leadership programs that don’t stick, it’s time to rethink how leders influence culture.
📩 Let’s talk. Your best story is waiting to be written.
Our Story
Our Story
Our Story
Hardie Consulting was born during the chaos of the “retail apocalypse,” a time when entire industries were being forced to rethink how they treated their people and their customers. Business as usual was collapsing ... and it needed to.
For over two decades, our founder, Scott Brown, worked alongside maverick leaders who refused to follow the crowd. These leaders became outliers, achieving remarkable results by building cultures of engagement that transformed not just performance metrics, but the lived experiences of their employees and customers.
But Scott wasn’t satisfied helping only a few exceptional leaders. He wanted to help the many. He saw the same problem everywhere ... a gap between intention and action. Leaders meant well, but their people didn’t feel it. Their words didn’t align with their deeds. Their overstories weren’t connected to their understories. And in that gap, trust was lost.
Scott believes that the future of work depends on leaders who know how to align what they do, say, and believe, building organizations where people trust each other, feel valued, and show up fully engaged. So he set out to prove it.
In the years since he earned his Master of Science in Organizational Leadership, Scott has distilled his theories on how to best help organizations thrive in an era of constant change ... especially emerging leaders. The result of his constant curiosity became his second book, Overstories, Understories, and the Messy Middle .
Hardie Consulting exists to help leaders like you rewrite your overstories and understories, to grow your organizational ecosystem in to a vibrant culture that inspires, engages, and performs ... not just for today’s demands, but for tomorrow’s possibilities.
Because your people deserve better. Your customers expect better. And you have the potential to become the leader you always wished you had.
Let’s rewrite your story together.
Leadership Development
Develop Your Unique Leadershp Voice
Develop Your Unique Leadershp Voice
Successful leaders share three traits ... empathy, perspective, and courage. Great leaders align these traits to drive meaningful action.
At Hardie Consulting, we believe leadership is more than a role ... it’s a relationship between your organization’s overstories (your purpose, values, and vision), your understories (the daily habits, systems, and behaviors that bring them to life), and the people who live them.
The most successful organizations don’t rely on a few star performers. They build cultures where every person’s experiences, strengths, and talents are engaged. They align their people, purpose, and processes to create a unique competitive advantage.
In today’s rapidly changing world, confusing management with leadership stagnates growth. Yesterday’s solutions are obsolete. Tomorrow’s success depends on leaders who can navigate complexity with clarity, courage, and connection.
That’s where we come in.
✅ Learn to align how you select, manage, develop, engage, and communicate with your people, customers, and stakeholders.
✅ Design the systems and understories that bring your organizational overstory to life.
✅ Foster healthy cultures rooted in trust, authenticity, and reciprocity, ensuring your teams have the energy and commitment to thrive ... regardless of what tomorrow brings.
Research and expereinces has taught us:
✅ Healthy ecosystems attract and retain highly engaged employees.
✅ Engaged employees create resilient, innovative organizations.
✅ Resilient organizations gain a competitive advantage that no competitor can copy.
Your results matter. But how you achieve those results matters even more. Our leadership development programs and executive coaching services empower your leaders to build cultures that are not only effective, but sustainable, resilient, and human-centered.
🌟 Ready to transform your leadership effectiveness and build a healthier culture for sustainable results? Let’s align your people, purpose, and processes so your organization can write its best story yet.
Develop Your Unique Leadershp Voice
Develop Your Unique Leadershp Voice
Develop Your Unique Leadershp Voice
Every leader has a story. But not every leader knows how to tell it.
At Hardie Consulting, we believe that effective communication is the bridge between your intentions and your impact. It’s what turns your overstory ... your vision, purpose, and beliefs into action through the understory ... the words you choose, the tone you use, and the way you make people feel.
Whether you’re holding a one-on-one coaching , running a team meeting, or delivering a keynote speech, your leadership voice matters. It shapes your credibility, your influence, and the culture you create.
✅ Confident leaders inspire trust.
✅ Clear communicators align people, purpose, and process.
✅ Compassionate speakers create cultures of belonging, engagement, and loyalty.
Our leadership communication coaching helps you:
🎤 Find your unique leadership voice grounded in your values, experiences, and authentic style
🎤 Craft compelling speeches, presentations, and messages that connect with any audience
🎤 Communicate with confidence, clarity, and compassion in meetings, one-on-ones, and public settings
🎤 Align your overstories and understories, so what you say and what you do build trust and credibility
In today’s noisy world, it’s not enough to have something important to say. You need to deliver it in a way that resonates, inspires, and moves people to action.
That’s why leaders who invest in their communication skills become the voices people want to follow ... in the boardroom, on the stage, and in everyday moments that matter most.
📩 Ready to unlock your leadership voice and communicate with impact, wherever you speak?
Contact Hardie Consulting today. Let’s align your stories, refine your voice, and craft messages that change your world ... and the worlds of those you lead.