{"id":33,"date":"2025-09-03T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people-first-hr.co.uk\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:07:00","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deborah-hartung.com\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33\" class=\"elementor elementor-33\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-66571c1 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"66571c1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hey, I'm Debs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e610d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4e610d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Leadership consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker, author, and \u2014 as of 2026 \u2014 someone who has finally stopped apologising for taking up space.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ef97db elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4ef97db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"369\">Most leadership advice was built for a world 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A world where hierarchy matter more than humanity. Where \u2018professional\u2019 meant masking emotions. Where managers were taught to control people instead of connect with them and where organisations spend millions on transformation while quietly burning out the humans expected to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"369\">I am here to change all that.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"369\">I\u2019m Deborah Hartung, a noted thought leader in HR, leadership, culture and the future of work. I have created over a dozen proprietary tools and frameworks to help leaders and their teams to build trust, navigate change, improve performance and actually make REAL lasting changes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"369\">For over 25 years, I\u2019ve worked across leadership development, culture transformation, employee experience, behavioural change and organisational effectiveness, helping managers, HR leaders and senior teams to solve the messy human problems that spreadsheets and strategy decks can\u2019t fix.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"369\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f66c343 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f66c343\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9df19a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e9df19a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">We all know the truth...<br>Data doesn't change behaviour and PowerPoint doesn't build trust. 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