Tom Hardin
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Tom Hardin
Keynote Speaker
National Bestselling Author of Wired on Wall Street; FBI Informant “Tipper X” in Wall Street’s Largest Insider Trading Investigation
Tom Hardin wore a wire for the FBI for two years inside Wall Street’s largest insider trading investigation. He was 29. Now a national bestselling author with 600+ keynotes, Hardin takes audiences inside the gray areas behind high-stakes decisions, helping leaders navigate culture risk, ethical decision-making, and integrity under pressure.
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Most speakers who cover ethics and leadership studied the case from the outside. Hardin is the case. He lived every stage: the ambition that pulled him in, the rationalizations that kept him there, the terror of cooperating with the FBI, and the long road back from losing everything. He’s not teaching a framework he read about. He’s walking you through decisions he actually faced, with real consequences. His keynotes draw on behavioral psychology, his Integrity Gap framework, and stories ranging from Wall Street trading floors to his grandfather, a Bataan Death March survivor. His book is endorsed by General Stanley McChrystal. Hardin brings to the stage the quality that made him effective undercover: complete honesty about the decisions most people would rather not examine.
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The Inside Story of Tipper X
At 29, Tom Hardin was secretly recording conversations for the FBI at the center of Operation Perfect Hedge. In this keynote drawn from his national bestseller Wired on Wall Street, he doesn’t recount what happened. He puts you in the room where it happened. You’ll feel the pressure, the rationalizations, and the moment the line moves under your feet. Then he connects it to your organization, your team, your next quarter — showing how the same forces that drove Wall Street’s insider trading scandal are quietly at work in every industry. Audiences don’t just learn how scandals start. They recognize the patterns already around them.
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The Integrity Gap
Nobody wakes up and decides to commit fraud. It happens in inches. A small shortcut. A number you let slide. A question you don’t ask because you already know the answer. Hardin has lived that progression and spent a decade helping Fortune 500 leadership teams see it in their own cultures. He introduces his Integrity Gap framework, showing how the distance between what leaders say and what teams actually do gets wider under pressure — and what it takes to close it before the gap becomes a headline. This talk gives leaders a language for the problems they already sense but haven’t named.
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The Second Act
What happens when you lose your career, your reputation, and the trust of the people closest to you, in public? Hardin doesn’t sugarcoat the answer. He takes you through the shame, the silence, and the slow, unglamorous work of earning it all back. Drawing on lessons from his grandfather, a Bataan Death March survivor, and his own life as an ultramarathon runner, he shows what rebuilding actually requires when there’s no shortcut and no script. No platitudes. No highlight reel. Just an honest account of what it costs to own your worst decisions, face the people you let down, and start over.
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