Our Mission
To provide schools and school leaders with expert, impartial, and bespoke support—strengthening leadership, strategy, and ethical decision-making across education.
We bring calm clarity to complexity, offering guidance shaped by experience, grounded in integrity, and always aligned with the real-world challenges of school life.
On guidance
Whether you're developing future leaders, navigating structural change, or strengthening governance and systems, we bring a calm, credible voice to your context. Our support is grounded in lived leadership experience—not consultancy theory—and shaped around what matters most to your school.
We operate with clarity and integrity, offering honest insight without agenda. Everything we do is designed to empower schools to lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
On honesty
We believe educational consultancy should be driven by integrity, not influence.
At Chattan Harbour, we offer guidance grounded in experience—not convenience, agenda, or profit. Our insights are shaped by what schools genuinely need, not what’s easiest to say.
Calm, expert support designed to strengthen leadership, sharpen strategy, and serve the long-term interests of your school and its community.
In a sector too often shaped by noise, we aim to set a different standard: quiet authority, clear thinking, and unwavering honesty.
On transparency
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of credibility and professionalism.
We are driven by our proven expertise, integrity, and lived leadership experience in education. We are transparent about who we are, what we’ve done, and how we work—because trust is earned, not assumed.
We stand by the quality of our work and welcome honest dialogue. If something doesn’t meet expectations, we will listen, respond, and make it right.
On joy
We believe that leadership, when done well, should bring a sense of purpose, clarity—and yes, joy.
Whether we work with a school for an hour or over many months, our aim is to strengthen leadership and systems in ways that improve the lived experience of staff, students, and school communities.
We work with integrity, we learn from feedback, and we treat every relationship with care. Internally, we foster a culture of respect and dignity—because the quality of our work depends on the wellbeing of our people.
At Chattan Harbour, we take our work seriously - but never ourselves. Joy is not a distraction from good leadership. It’s evidence of it.