Hardin Tibbs has been a professional futurist since the early 1990s. He has undertaken futures research projects in a wide diversity of fields, including new technology, environmental issues and their solutions, higher education, industry evolution, product innovation, and defence. He has taught futures at a number of business schools, including the Saïd Business School, the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Møller Institute, the University of Bath School of Management, and Ashridge Business School.