Juanita Hardy has a passion for making business and cultural connections that foster healthy, thriving, and culturally rich places to live, work, learn, and enjoy. Hardy has over 43 years of business experience, including 31 years with IBM, where she retired in 2005, and over 35 years in the arts as a nonprofit leader, trustee, collector, and patron of the arts.

Hardy is a consultant on creative placemaking serving the real estate development industry. Hardy was Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking for Urban Land Institute (2016-2018), a global non-profit committed to responsible land use. Hardy founded Tiger Management Consulting Group, a global training and business consulting services firm, after retiring from IBM. She has been an executive coach for Right Management, a global human capital development firm, since 2006. Hardy’s client portfolio includes corporations and non-profit organizations.

Hardy is the former Executive Director of CulturalDC, a nonprofit committed to making space for artists and art organizations and fostering cultural and economic vibrancy in communities through its creative placemaking services. She co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, an art education initiative, in 2000. Hardy is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her recent writing includes a tetralogy of creative placemaking articles in Urban Land magazine.

Hardy serves on several boards, including ArtTable, a national non-profit for women professionals in the arts based in New York City and the Mosaic Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Washington, DC. As an avid collector of fine art since 1985, Hardy with her husband Melvin, has acquired many works on paper, canvas, sculptures, as well as African art.