{"id":11,"date":"2026-04-03T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:34:21","slug":"about-derek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Hi, I&#8217;m Derek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:7px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-large-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\" style=\"margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:12px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"981\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/derek-logo-pic-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-386\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/derek-logo-pic-2.png 981w, https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/derek-logo-pic-2-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/derek-logo-pic-2-768x571.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 981px) 100vw, 981px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default has-large-font-size has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-05f749c0 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:520px\">\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><strong>Business Development Consultant | Service Systems Strategist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helping service businesses improve operations, customer retention, sales growth, and long-term business performance through real-world systems and leadership experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over 40 years of experience in engineering process development, ISO quality systems, customer service leadership, sales development, and business operations, Derek Horsburgh works directly with service-based businesses to help bring structure, accountability, and measurable growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From fleet service development and customer retention strategies to coaching and operational systems implementation, Derek focuses on practical solutions that work in the real world \u2014 not corporate theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Development Consultant | Service Systems Strategist Helping service businesses improve operations, customer retention, sales growth, and long-term business performance through real-world systems and leadership experience. With over 40 years of experience in engineering process development, ISO quality systems, customer service leadership, sales development, and business operations, Derek Horsburgh works directly with service-based businesses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.derekhorsburgh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}