Collaboration, creativity and confidence are core to Sunita Harley’s work with law firms over the last 18 years as an award-winning Inclusion and Professional Development Specialist. Through her consultancy Collective Insight launched in 2016, Sunita and her team deliver engaging inclusion sessions, inspiring career management programmes and insightful leadership sessions for law firms, chambers and other corporate organisations including Lloyds Banking Group, Marie Curie, Meta and Coursera.
She is proud to have delivered award-nominee programmes to equip professionals at all stages of their careers. Her clients value the unique career management programmes for women and diverse professionals, inspiring group coaching sessions, exec coaching conversations and leadership development workshops she delivers for a number of leading law firms.
Sunita’s expertise has been featured in Psychologies, People Management, Elle and on the BBC. In 2023, Collective Insight won the Diversity Champion of the Year in a Specialist Role award at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards. When collecting this award, Sunita told Baroness Floella Benjamin that she was dedicating the award to her late best friend Natasha. In 2024, Sunita was selected as one of the four finalists for the Outstanding Achievement Award by University of Westminster.
Sunita worked in-house as an HR leader at Herbert Smith Freehills, Slaughter and May and Addleshaw Goddard. Sunita is previously the Co-Chair of the Cultural Diversity Network at Taylor Wessing and the Chair of the Family Network at Slaughter and May.
She kicked off her earlier career working as a DJ and in fashion where, despite being one of the few British Mauritian South Asian professionals in her sector, she was selected for assignments with global brands including Nike, The Body Shop and Vogue.
Her podcast Lucky Things focuses on looking after our careers, confidence and wellbeing. She is a proud mental-health advocate having navigated numerous life setbacks. Sunita is often asked to deliver talks for colleagues throughout the year as well as for Mental Health Awareness Week, International Women’s Day and South Asian Heritage Month. Sunita loves sharing practical know-how via her LinkedIn corner and often reminds all of us to celebrate our career achievements. She looks forward to celebrating all of the nominees and finalists for the 2025 Women and Diversity in Law Awards.