Your Partner in Practical Growth

At Hardin Channel Advisory, we help turn complex business challenges into clear, doable action plans.

For more than 23 years, Evan Hardin (Founder & Managing Partner) has built his career in industrial distribution, working at the intersection of manufacturers, distributors, sales organizations, customers and the products that keep businesses operating safely and efficiently.

That experience shaped a simple belief: The greatest opportunities in industrial markets are often found not within one company, but in the connections between companies.

Hardin Channel Advisory was created to help organizations identify those opportunities, align the channel around them and turn strategy into measurable commercial results.

Evan brings a practitioner’s perspective, not a theoretical one. His career has included building distribution relationships, developing commercial strategies, working across manufacturers and channel partners, leading safety-focused growth initiatives, and navigating the operational and commercial complexities of the industrial distribution ecosystem.

Today, that experience is brought to manufacturers, distributors, independent manufacturers' representatives, buying groups, end-user organizations and private equity owners seeking to unlock greater value from the industrial channel.

In addition to Hardin Channel Advisory, The Hardin Company, LLC has an extended network of industry leaders and SME’s ready to engage should the opportunity arise. One of Evan’s core principles is doing what you say, when you say you’re going to do it, and not overextending capabilities and commitments so when/if the partnership requires other SME’s to be involved, we will always make the right decision to bring them in to meet/exceed our customers’ expectations vs. risking a partnership.