The McHardy Collective

Portfolio of creative businesses

The smart way to tap into expertise.

The McHardy Collective is a portfolio of agency solutions represented by new business expert and consultant Richard McHardy.

Agency support shouldn’t be a gamble

Since 2012, The McHardy Collective has helped marketing chiefs, HR leaders, creative directors and C-suite decision-makers get a better night’s sleep.

Through a single relationship, brands and organisations can tap into a deep and reliable portfolio of agencies across a wide range of business disciplines.

Every agency is hand-picked and road-tested. Each offers pace-setting expertise in their field. The process is smooth, the risk minimal. The output’s exemplary and the value obvious.

From campaigns, creative and comms to employee engagement, events and expos – to sound, light and vision. Time and again, smart firms bank on The McHardy Collective.

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Testimonials

  • 5
    Richard has increasingly become the person I turn to to put me in touch with agencies who can help bring our brand to life in engaging and memorable ways. His network is broad and diverse, and tapping into it is both easy and efficient.
    International law firm
  • 5
    Richard was the match-maker we needed when it came to finding the right social agency to answer our content brief. His shortlist of agencies was so on point that it was actually incredibly hard to choose which one to go with but thanks to that rigorous selection process, we found the perfect partner! His ability to join the dots in this way is truly admirable and a credit to him always going above and beyond to make it happen.
    Auto Trader UK
  • 5
    Richard’s knowledge and expertise around agency fit is second to none. He has a great network of partners and most recently connected us with an excellent culture consultancy who have helped us develop our employee value proposition. Richard also happens to be as authentic as they come, genuinely passionate and interested in supporting organisations with their marketing and communication ambitions.
    Aldermore Bank
  • 5

    Richard has an innate & unique ability to connect up the right creative agencies to the sports industry & its clubs/events and tournaments. I've had the pleasure of knowing Richard for many years and his passion, knowledge, humour and inquisitive nature make him a key person to consult when any large project is being formed to get his insights & recommendations.

    ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
  • 5
    Rich helped me find find a brilliant partner in Threshold Sports and we built the award-winning Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones together which has been an enormous success in terms of employee engagement and brand PR since 2014. Rich's network of niche studios, creative agencies and event industry suppliers is second to none!
    Dixons Carphone
  • 5
    We were looking for a creative engagement agency to support us with the content development and production of a number of annual campaigns and events...Richard introduced us to a rockstar agency!
    Domino's Pizza Group PLC
  • 5
    Richard has become an important asset to us for his knowledge of the specialist agency sector and we have benefited from a number of excellent introductions in areas such as; ideas generation, retail design, PR and even workshop facilitation.
    Micro Scooters
  • 5
    Richard has been putting great agencies in front of us since 2014. He has a gift for finding indie agencies who get our way of doing things.
    Universal Pictures International
  • 5
    The companies and agencies he puts together are brilliant matches. Some of the best marketing and digital work I have ever commissioned came from agencies in the McHardy network.
    RNIB
  • 5
    Whenever I don't have a supplier who can deliver what's needed, Richard is the person I've turned to. Every agency he's put me in contact with has always been top notch.
    International law firm
  • 5
    Richard has an exceptional talent for unearthing commercial opportunities through sound business intelligence and research.  
    Global brand experience agency
Branding and Design

Branding & Design

Consumer Campaigns

Consumer Campaigns

Content Marketing

Content Marketing

Event Broadcast

Event Broadcast

Experimental Marketing

Experiential Marketing

Film and Animation

Film & Animation

Life Coaching

Workplace Culture

Live Production

Live Production

Sound Production

Sonic Branding

Talent Brokering

Talent Brokering

From the Blog

Gut Feel versus Big Data

I connect people that I know, that I feel, will work well together. For decades, that very human instinct has been a money-maker and an ally.

The McHardy Collective turned six on Feb 1st 2018. That’s six years of connecting agencies and brands, fusing personalities to produce spellbinding work. The McHardy Collective is a business built on my gut. Weird as that sounds.

Just like many creatives out there, I’m someone whose medium is intangible – so I figured I was safe from the great AI takeover. Robots, data and algorithms will never be able to thinkwith soul, spirit and empathy, right? Right?

RIGHT?!

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