Wired on Wall Street Featuring Tom Hardin
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Donโt miss this event featuring Tom Hardin, Founder, Tipper X. Author of ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐, ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐โ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด, published by Wiley to be released on February 25, 2026.
Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a financial analyst in the hedge fund industry. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry.
Known as โTipper X,โ Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20 of the 80+ individual criminal cases in โOperation Perfect Hedge,โ a Wall Street house cleaning campaign that morphed into the largest insider trading investigation of a generation. As the youngest professional implicated in the sting, Tom was tasked with wearing a covert body wire to help the FBI bring down some of its biggest targets in the industry.
After resolving his case in 2015, Tom was invited by FBI-NYC to speak to their rookie agent class in 2016 and is now a global corporate trainer, speaker and board advisor on misconduct risk, behavioral ethics and compliance issues from his former frontline perspective.
Through rigorous self-examination, Tom took responsibility for his actions as a young professional, used the experience to transform his life and is now on an on-going journey into human behavior and why we sometimes make the wrong decisions.
Tom Hardin
Founder of Tipper Xโข Advisors,
Tom Hardin helps organizations identify and close the blind spots that quietly push good people toward bad decisions. As founder of Tipper Xโข Advisors, he works with Fortune Global 500 companies, boards of directors, financial institutions, law firms, business schools, and leadership teams, delivering keynotes, tailored workshops, interactive courses, and advisory engagements on behavioral ethics, culture risk, and organizational conduct.
What sets Tom apart is the combination of candid, firsthand storytelling and practical strategies leaders can apply immediately to strengthen decision-making and build resilient, ethical cultures.
Having lived the pressures of ambition, competition, and incentives from the inside, he reveals how they can erode judgment without anyone noticing. His sessions donโt lecture from a distanceโthey ignite honest conversations that influence behavior long after the event.
Beyond his corporate work, Tom volunteers with organizations that help justice-impacted individuals rebuild their lives and careers, and he is active in his local church. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two teenage daughters, staying grounded through running, boxing, and community involvement.
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