Simon Kingsnorth

Simon is a highly experienced leadership consultant, coach and facilitator, known for his strategic and commercially grounded approach. He builds strong relationships quickly and creates an environment where leaders and teams can think clearly, challenge themselves and move forward with confidence.

With extensive experience working across sectors and leadership levels, Simon brings a deep understanding of organisational dynamics and the realities leaders face day-to-day. His approach is practical and outcome-focused, helping clients translate insight into action and embed sustainable change.

Simon is particularly skilled at working with leadership teams to improve alignment, strengthen communication and build the trust needed for high performance. He combines thoughtful facilitation with the ability to challenge constructively, ensuring conversations lead to real progress.

Simon specialises in:

• Leadership development and training
• Executive and team coaching
• High-performance team facilitation
• Supporting leadership teams through change and transition

Experience Snapshot:

• Delivered leadership and team development programmes across a range of sectors including professional services, public sector and corporate organisations
• Supported senior leadership teams to improve alignment, communication and effectiveness
• Designed and facilitated experiential leadership development programmes with measurable behavioural impact
• Built long-term client partnerships focused on sustained performance and cultural change

Natalie Harvey

Natalie is known for fostering trust, psychological safety, and high performance through her coaching style which is thoughtful, focused and relational, creating the conditions for meaningful reflection and lasting change. Natalie draws on her extensive skill and experience to support and challenge thinking and behaviours.

Throughout her long and successful career in HR and Leadership Development, Natalie has worked with leaders and teams across a range of sectors and industries. She has enabled individuals and teams to improve their performance, build their understanding of self and each other, face into their challenges, overcome limiting beliefs and establish behaviours that have shifted performance, improved their sense of belonging and set them up for sustained success.

Natalie is a PCC-level ICF coach, EMCC accredited Team Coach and expert at nurturing effective leadership culture.

Natalie specialises in:

• 1-2-1 Executive and Leadership Coaching
• High Performing Team Coaching Programmes
• Group and Intact Team Coaching
• Insights Discovery
• Leader As Coach - Equipping Managers with the skills to realise the full potential of their teams
• Women In Leadership Group Coaching Programmes

Experience Snapshot:

• Saint-Gobain
• The British Geological Survey
• Tui Airlines
• Travis Perkins
• The Welsh Rugby Union
• The Southbank Centre

Will Shorten

Will is a highly-skilled leadership coach and trainer with a unique ability to tune into the nuances of any team.

Will brings authenticity, having had 1st hand experience of front-line management, and supports his clients helping them to work through complex and often emotionally driven issues. His approach builds trust and demonstrates an exceptional attentiveness to both team dynamics and individual needs.

Will appreciates the opportunities to work with many international clients across a range of sectors including manufacturing, financial services, IT as well as public and governmental sectors – he enjoys variety.

Prior to this he spent 25 years working in 2 manufacturing organisations in Operations, R&D, Commercial and HR functions.

Will has an MBA and is an ICF accredited coach to PCC level. He tutors on a Business and Personal Certified Coaching programme.

Will specialises in:

• Leadership development
• Coaching: Individual, Team, and Group
• Culture consultancy
• Training

Experience Snapshot:

• Programme Director for Talent Leadership Programme in a manufacturing
• Individual and group coaching to develop leadership behaviours in First Line Managers
• Co-design and delivery of a 4-month blended learning programme on project leadership to 25 senior managers

Adrian Barker

Adrian’s coaching and facilitation style is result–focused. Supportive yet challenging, he uses his leadership experience and extensive personal development to inspire current and future leaders to deliver to their full potential.

Adrian has 25 years’ experience of working in, and leading high-performance teams, in both the public and private sector. He uses this experience in his capacity as a Learning and Development professional and executive coach. Drawing on his background as a police officer, Detective, close protection and CTSFO, he brings a unique perspective to clients and helps teams and individuals achieve goals and objectives.

With a particular interest in team dynamics and team performance, he focusses on the authenticity of the team and the leader and the role the leader plays in creating a high-performance environment.

Adrian specialises in:

• Asking the questions that need to be asked
• Offering direct and considered insight
• Challenging leaders to perform
• Bringing a lived experience to what High Performing Teams really need to thrive
• Using my lived experience to offer a unique insight into leadership development
• Blending sound academic theory with pragmatism and a sound commercial mindset

Experience Snapshot:

• Leadership development for the Qatari Government during the FIFA World Cup bid cycle
• Supported a major European law firm with a cultural change programme
• Working with the Law Society to introduce psychological safety and growth mindset concepts into early years lawyer training
• A trusted advisor to some of the world's largest and most prestigious law firms, consulting on leadership development, cultural and behavioural change and performance
• A visiting fellow and Programme Director for Oxford Said Business School, University of Oxford

Chris Gamble

Chris is the Founder of Polaris Consultants and is known for his performance-focused, thoughtful and insight-led approach to leadership and team development. He has worked with some of the world’s best-known organisations, creating the conditions for honest reflection, clear thinking and meaningful behavioural change, helping leaders and teams cut through noise and focus on what really matters.

Chris works closely with senior leaders and leadership teams, often at moments of pressure, transition or growth. His style balances challenge and support, enabling clients to confront difficult realities, shift limiting patterns and take ownership of their impact. His work is grounded in the belief that extraordinary performance comes from clarity, alignment and deep human connection.

Chris is an ICF-accredited coach and regularly lectures at Nottingham Business School.

Chris specialises in:

• Working closely with leadership teams improve alignment, connection and performance
• Executive and leadership coaching
• Learning and development programme design and delivery
• Culture and behavioural change for organisations of all sizes

Experience Snapshot:

• Long-standing partnership with Freshfields, delivering culture change programmes, high-performance team development and executive coaching across multiple teams, levels and geographies
• Worked with multiple NHS Trust leadership teams to build trust, connection and direction, leading to measurable improvements in team performance and effectiveness
• Designed and delivered international, multi-year leadership development programmes for Saint-Gobain
• Turned around the performance of a global professional services leadership team, restoring alignment, accountability and trust at senior levels – leading to a significant uplift in results

Lisa Gardner

Lisa is our Business and Operations Manager, the driving force behind everything that keeps this business running smoothly behind the scenes. With 35 years of experience as a senior operational manager across multiple sectors of the service industry, she brings a wealth of expertise in project management and customer relationship management to the team.

A holder of a Master's degree in Business Management, Operations and Administration, Lisa is passionate about delivering exceptional customer service and serves as the central point of contact for trainers, coaches, clients, and everyone involved in our programs ensuring everything is executed seamlessly.

Lisa has a vast array of knowledge when it comes to systems and processes and can turn her hand to almost anything finding a solution to any challenge that presents itself.

Lisa specialises in:

• Project Management
• Client Relations & Communications
• Customer Experience
• Operational Management & Business Administration

Experience Snapshot:

• Certified Dubsado Specialist since 2023
• Introduction of Project Management tools and CRM systems into multiple organisations to deliver an exceptional and consistent “customer experience”
• Finalist in the “Best Business Administrator of The Year” awards

Adam Craft

Adam is our Accounts Manager at Polaris, helping keep projects running smoothly and clients happy. He’s organised, easy to work with, and always ready to find a practical solution.

Adam is a fully qualified chartered accountant with over 16 years in the accounting industry and brings a wealth of experience into the Polaris accounting function.

With extensive experience across multiple sectors, Adam has a practical approach with ensuring both corporate and personal clients receive accurate information to make informed decisions on investments and growth, turning complex data into actionable decisions.

His proactive approach helps businesses anticipate challenges before they arise.

Adam specialises in:

• Working closely with owner-managed business to maximise tax saving opportunities
• Accounting & tax compliance
• Business finance coaching for start up businesses
• Turning data into insight

Experience Snapshot:

• Becoming a fully qualified ACCA accountant in 2021
• Building long-term relationships with clients to help grow their businesses
• Supporting international businesses with their UK tax affairs and optimising strategies for long-term success
• Managing a large portfolio of clients, ranging from small owner-managed businesses to large group companies