Hardin Tibbs is a UK-based management consultant. He specializes in long range thinking and strategy development and is an experienced scenario planner. He has conducted consulting engagements in the United States, Asia and Europe.

His strategic consulting work has spanned a wide range of industries, government agencies and institutions, including electricity, aviation, cement, insurance, household products, food, biotechnology, urban infrastructure, natural resources, taxation, transport and defence.

In the early 1990s he was a senior consultant with GBN in California. GBN is the scenario planning firm founded by Peter Schwartz, and is now part of the Monitor Group. Hardin was then based in Australia for several years, where he started Synthesys Strategic Consulting in 1996. He returned to the UK in 2001.

Prior to joining GBN, Hardin was a consultant at the Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters of Arthur D. Little, Inc., the international management, technology and environmental consulting firm. A typical engagement there involved work on the design of a hand-held instrument for use by suited astronauts on the NASA space station.

In addition to his strategy work, Hardin has made significant contributions on issues involving technology and environment. He is the author of a seminal paper that helped define industrial ecology, a new approach to industrial sustainability. He is also author of a book that surveyed research findings about the effect of natural and artificial lighting on human health.

Hardin's writing about industrial ecology is used as teaching material at several universities, including Harvard University, and the conceptual framework he advanced has been adopted in work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Several popular non-fiction books have featured his work, including: Biomimicry by Janine Benyus, The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, and Out of Control by Kevin Kelly.

Before his move to the United States in the mid-1980s, Hardin was a design consultant and entrepreneur in England and Europe. He has an MSc in Management and a BA degree in Industrial Design Engineering.