Juanita Hardy

Biography: Juanita Hardy has a passion for fostering healthy, thriving, and equitable places to live, work, learn and play through her work with individuals and businesses. Hardy has over 45 years of business experience, including 31 years with IBM, where she retired in 2005, and over a decade in the real estate industry. She also has over 35 years in the arts as a nonprofit leader, trustee, and patron of the arts. Hardy was Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking for Urban Land Institute (2016-2018), a global non-profit committed to responsible land use. Since this position, she has served as an ULI consultant on creative placemaking and has held advisory positions for ULI, including equity advisor and currently advisor to ULI’s Art in Place initiative. Hardy held leadership positions with IBM that spanned software development, systems engineering, and management consulting. After retiring from IBM, Hardy founded Tiger Management Consulting Group, an executive coaching and business consulting services firm. Hardy’s client portfolio includes both for profit and non-profit organizations, including Right Management, a global human capital development firm, where she has served as an executive coach since 2006. Hardy is the former Executive Director of CulturalDC (2013-2015), a nonprofit that provides space for artists and creative placemaking services for real estate developers. She co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, an art education initiative, in 2000. She has been an avid collector of fine art since 1985. Hardy was recognized as a Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal in 2010 and an art advocate, and collector by The Phillips Collection in 2022. She is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and journals in the US and abroad, including articles on CPM for Urban Land magazine, ULI Publications on CPM, and a 2023 essay for Volume 3 of The Place Economy published by Hoyne Communications based in Australia.