Bio

Ron Harding spent his executive career turning around dysfunctional businesses — from single manufacturing units to a half-billion-dollar global specialty-chemical company he led as president. A chemical engineer by training, he learned to transform struggling organizations not through force of personality, but through the science of how organizations actually work: the right structure, roles sized to the right level of work, authority matched to accountability, and people whose capability fits the complexity of the job. That science — Requisite Organization, developed by Elliott Jaques — became the backbone of everything he built.

Over the years, Ron distilled what he had practiced at scale into a system founders can actually install: the Requisite Operating System (ROS) — seven interlocking components that let a growing company scale without breaking its people — together with the Redemptive Management System (RMS), the leadership layer that runs through all seven. The conviction underneath both: high performance and human flourishing are not a trade-off.

Today Ron coaches CEOs and founders of small and mid-sized companies — and a number of nonprofits — through exactly the stage where informal habits stop working and a real operating system has to take their place. He serves on the board of the Global Organization Design Society and mentors early-stage founders on business and strategy. He lives in North Carolina.