Caroline Harth, founder of the communications consultancy Harthcommunications, offers expert guidance on storytelling. For 15 years now, across various industries: corporate, science, art, startups – and at the heart of it all, for the leaders who need the big story for their next deal and pitch, to avoid getting stuck in the elevator. Before she started advising her clients towards success, she trained in law with a PhD in legal history, deconstructing a prevailing myth. Her law career was not a linear path, the time as a Communications Manager for BD & Comms at the UK-based progressive pop law firm Olswang LLP was pivotal, especially due to her early engagement with diversity and inclusion issues and her role in transferring UK communication standards to the German market. The decision to go freelance and advise lawyers on communications turned out to be an a brave one and through an unconventional entry into video production, she learned visual storytelling techniques for corporate storytelling and leading the German office of Westphal Ltd. 

The pandemic brought about a radical change—on the sofa. It was Kondo-time: everything that didn’t spark joy? Gone! In the end: no sofa, no apartment, but a digital nomad lifestyle. This radical decluttering and reinvention became the premise of her own coaching method: Own Your Story. Structured decluttering, creating order, and getting the story straight to the point.

Caroline Harth has a talent for recognizing patterns and asking the right questions to focus on what truly matters. The reference points are always personal values and goals – not what others think or expect. Her female network “She Owns Her Oysters” encourages women to take control of their finances so that they can pay for their own oysters and champagne.

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