Welcome to Hardie Leadership Consulting
Overstories, Understories, and the Messy Middle
How Leaders Cultivate Healthy Organizations
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT "OVERSTORIES"
Overstories validated how important my job is to the company I work for. Seeing the value of what I do written in black and white was quite emotional. I loved learning how integral each piece of a business is to its success. The real-life examples brought so much to life throughout.
- Annick B.
The Ideas Are Earned. The Stories Are Unforgettable.
Keynotes, Training, Coaching, and Consulting
"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. Willis
"If you are looking for added value to your organization and someone to make an immediate impact, Scott is the guy you want." - D. Watson
"Scott's corporate training and leadership education is motivating ... engaging, enthusiastic, and educational." D. Delmain
The Keynotes
The Stories We Tell - A journey revealing the gap between the story your organization tells itself and the one your people are actually living.
Stories, Artifacts, and Rituals - To change behavior, we must change people's habits. This keynote gives audiences a practice, not just a process, for making it stick.
Play a Different Game - There is a sixth game in Game Theory that nobody talks about. This keynote gives audiences the tools to play it with intention.
You Think It's a Turnover Problem. It's Always Deeper.
Where We Start
Develop Your Unique Leadership Voice
How We Got Here
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.
That's the gap we work in.
At Hardie Leadership Consulting, we help leaders examine what they actually believe, how those beliefs shape their culture, and where the distance between intention and action is costing them their best people.
The work isn't complicated. But it requires honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to look at the stories you've been telling — and the ones your organization has been living.
If you're ready for that conversation, we're ready to have it.
How We Got Here
Develop Your Unique Leadership Voice
How We Got Here
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 leaders who shared a conviction you see in the best organizations ... that people are the ultimate competitive advantage, not just a line item on a balance sheet.
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. And in that gap, trust was lost.
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. The result of his constant curiosity became his second book, Overstories, Understories, and the Messy Middle.
Hardie Leadership Consulting exists for the leader who suspects the gap between their intentions and their people's experience is costing them more than they know.
Develop Your Unique Leadership Voice
Develop Your Unique Leadership Voice
Develop Your Unique Leadership Voice
Every leader has a story. Not every leader knows how to tell it.
There's a specific kind of coaching Scott does that doesn't show up in most leadership programs ... helping leaders and aspiring speakers find their voice, shape their stories, and deliver them in a way that actually changes a room.
Most people who seek this coaching arrive with one of two problems. Either they know they have something worth saying but watch their message get lost in nervous habits that undermine their credibility before they finish their first sentence. Or they have something important to say and the thought of saying it in front of a room stops them cold.
Both are solvable. And the solution is rarely what they expect. It starts with the story ... finding the one that's already there, the one that's uniquely yours, and learning to tell it in a way that makes a room lean in rather than check their phones.
The leaders who've done it will tell you ... it's less about learning to speak and more about learning to be heard.
If that conversation interests you, let's have it.
