Communications strategy and leadership for ambitious businesses.

Hardwired helps businesses navigating growth or change establish a clear position, build a compelling story and communicate with purpose.

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Is your story keeping up with your business?

As your business grows, changes or becomes more complex, its position, messages and communications capability need to keep pace.

Here to help when:

You’re launching, entering a new market or preparing to raise capital.

The business has evolved but your story hasn’t kept up.

A valuable proposition is proving difficult to define and explain.

Customers, colleagues and partners are hearing different versions of the business.

You need senior communications direction without immediately making a permanent hire.

Clarity that helps the business move.

Clearer decisions

Leadership has a sharper view of what matters, who needs to understand it and what to prioritise.

Greater alignment

Leaders, teams and partners work from a shared account of the business and where it is going.

Focused action

Communications effort is directed towards the messages, moments and audiences that can move the business forward.

Diagnose. Design. Embed.

Every engagement draws on the same underlying approach.

Diagnose

Understand the business ambition, audiences, evidence and real communications problem.

Design

Develop the position, narrative, messages and communications strategy.

Embed

Help leaders and teams put the thinking into practice and build the confidence to carry it forward.

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Different challenges need different levels of support.

The right engagement depends on what is unclear, what needs to change and how much support the business requires.

Hardwired Diagnostic

A focused examination of the business, proposition, audiences and communications priorities, ending with clear recommendations and an action plan.

Positioning and Communications Sprint

A concentrated engagement to establish the position, narrative, messages and practical communications plan.

Fractional Chief Communications Officer

Ongoing senior communications counsel, direction and leadership for businesses that need experienced support without immediately making a permanent hire.

Selected work.

Examples of strategic communications, research and positioning work led by Jamie Hardesty.

North East AI Growth Zone

Turning a complex regional opportunity into an evidence-led strategy.

As Technology & AI Adviser to the North East Combined Authority, Jamie led a programme of research involving more than 60 interviews and six sector workshops. The work brought together evidence, stakeholder perspectives and policy objectives in a strategic report with practical recommendations.

Research · Stakeholder engagement · Strategy · Narrative

North East technology sector

Building an evidence-backed account of a regional technology economy.

Commissioned to produce a North East technology sector overview, insights report and company showcase, Jamie developed a clearer account of the region’s strengths, businesses and opportunities. The work led to an invitation to join the Digital Union board and contribute to sector strategy, engagement and community development.

Sector research · Positioning · Editorial strategy · Ecosystem development

JAMIE PORTRAIT

Strategic thinking. Editorial judgement. Practical leadership.

Jamie Hardesty helps leaders make sense of complex businesses, establish what makes them matter and communicate it in a way people can understand and act on. His experience spans journalism, startup growth, strategic communications, policy, research and economic development.

Bring me the challenge.

If your business is growing, changing or struggling to communicate what makes it matter, let’s talk.

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