1995
The trunk of a car
While still in college, Eric started building websites by hand and pitching clients out of the trunk of a car. The first structure was improvised, but the commitment was not.
About Eric Hardy
The long way around is where the useful lessons live.
Eric Hardy is a founder, former board chairman, and author who has spent more than three decades learning what lets a company, and the institutions around it, keep their footing while everything changes.
A working history
Built, tested, rebuilt.
The crisis years
Weathering the crash
When a financial crash tested the company, Eric learned the difference between a business that is busy and a business that is structurally sound.
The acquisition
A new chapter
A major acquisition brought a new level of complexity — and another chance to discover which systems, relationships, and habits could carry the company forward.
Two decades in governance
The boardroom
Alongside the company, Eric spent more than 20 years in governance at Henry Ford Health, including service as Chairman of the Henry Ford Hospital and Physician Network Board. He helped guide a major financial turnaround and oversaw the $2.2 billion Destination Grand campus development. He serves on the NMSDC Executive Committee and is a former Chairman of the National Business League.
Today
Still building
With more than $800 million in lifetime revenue, offshore expansion, and five full reinventions behind him, Eric still runs the company he founded. He now mentors young entrepreneurs, advises boards on growth and AI risk, and is finishing Breaking the Entrepreneur's Ceiling, the first volume in the Blueprint Library series.
The pattern underneath
Founders who hit $1M and stall do not fail because they lack ambition. They fail because nobody taught them the structure underneath.
“The boundary isn't there to make you unavailable in a real crisis. It's there so that everything that isn't a real crisis stops pretending to be one.”
“If something broke today, we had a fix by tomorrow. Never say die.”