Hardin Tibbs
Chief Executive, Synthesys Strategic Consulting Ltd
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Hardin is a management consultant with extensive international experience. He is CEO of Synthesys Strategic
Consulting, a UK-based management consulting firm. Hardin specialises in long range thinking and strategy
development, and is an experienced scenario planner. Before returning to the UK he founded and ran Synthesys
Strategic Consulting in Australia. Prior to that he was a senior consultant with Global Business Network (GBN),
a research and consulting firm in California, and he continues to work with GBN internationally. In addition
to his strategy work, Hardin has made significant contributions on issues involving technology and environment,
and he is the author of an influential paper defining industrial ecology, a new approach to industrial
sustainability. Before joining GBN, Hardin was a consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc., the international
management, technology and environmental consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.