About Us

Hardesty Hackett & Partners provides sophisticated and client-centered financial and management expertise to closely held middle market businesses seeking to improve revenues, profits and shareholder value.

Changing economics, markets and regulatory environments demand business leadership willing to make difficult decisions to redress the status quo. In planning for expansion, contraction, merger or acquisition, our clients benefit over the long-term by effectively managing change, strengthening operations and enhancing the strategic positioning and focus of their business.

Our Vision

Our vision is based on commitment. More than just a word, this is our work — in both business and life. It is the single quality by which we choose to be measured. By our clients and our peers. By our friends and by our competitors. Born of friendships, we blossomed as a business. We shall never forget the values which make us strong. To us, truth and integrity are not simply promises; they are as fundamental as the debits and credits we study, the performance measurements we develop and the return on investment promised for our clients.

Our Mission

Our mission is to deliver high quality, cost-effective projects on schedule by employing and supporting motivated and focused teams. We hold in highest regard the importance of our relationships and will always be fair and true in our dealings with all partners, clients, vendors and employees. Our commitment to this mission will allow Hardesty Hackett & Partners to become not only a premier consulting firm, but the premier consulting firm in the southeast.

Our Goals

  • Provide collaborative, objective and comprehensive solutions for each unique client
  • Deliver high quality and cost-effective projects on schedule
  • Maximize each client’s productivity and profitability

Our Approach

We provide quality value-added counsel through an integrated multi-disciplinary team approach. We perform in a variety of ways including strategic planning initiatives, managerial and organizational development, leadership training, cost controls, productivity enhancement and profit improvement.

Our consultants include MBAs, PhDs, CPAs, CMCs, engineers, attorneys, and seasoned entrepreneurs with experience in all types of businesses.These bright minds all understand the psychology of management and have a distinguished track record of accomplishment. They are supported by a very well equipped research department capable of accessing industry standards, technological data, and other Hardesty Hackett & Partners case histories. Simply put, our consultants provide:

  • Extra Brains — To: Supplement and challenge current thinking, to create a supplemental intellectual property fact base, to provide new ideas or different ways to look at data based upon proven experience and expertise.
  • Extra Arms and Legs — To: Supplement current executional capacity for timely implementation of strategic and operational decisions providing proper foundation for results.
  • Independent Eyes and Ears — To: Create an independent and objective fact base, especially where owners or insiders might distort data or incorrectly synthesize sensitive information from processes, employees or customers.
  • Preachers and Teachers — To: Disseminate and teach new ideas and techniques through coaching, mentoring and training.
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