Robert Hardy is a Vancouver-based writer and with over twenty years experience creating, producing and overseeing documentary, lifestyle and scripted series, films and digital projects. He also provides executive management consulting services to media production companies. His recent credits include Big Timber (Netflix/History), Pamela’s Cooking with Love (Food Network), Pamela’s Garden of Eden (Hulu/HGTV), Ice Vikings (Cottage Life/Viasat) and Rust Valley Restorers (Netflix/History).

Robert is a storyteller with extensive experience in the development & production of documentary, lifestyle and factual television as well as scripted comedy and drama. Known for his ability to coalesce people around an idea and a shared vision, Robert helped create one of the world’s first web series in 1997, and has served as a Senior Vice President at Entertainment One, a network executive with Bell Media and a Senior Communications officer with CBC-Radio Canada.

Before that he was a Communications Director, advertising writer & director and a strategic communications consultant. Having built an extensive network within the media industry, he has worked as a consultant & collaborator with a diverse range of organizations including Corus, CBC, TELUS, Bell Media and Cirque du Soleil. He has also served as a co-founder and board member of a number of entertainment industry organizations from Field and Post and FactualWEST to national theatre companies and film festivals.