Jillian Naylor, Partner
jnaylor@equitura.co
Jillian blends eighteen years of legal experience supporting organisations on their most sensitive people issues with in-depth understanding of the impact that organisational culture and group dynamics have on the experience and behaviour of individuals in the workplace, organisational risk achievement of organisational outcomes.
Until September 2021, Jillian was an Employment Partner at a magic circle law firm, leaving to pursue a market-leading Masters’ degree at LSE in Organisational and Social Psychology and to establish Equitura. Jillian is passionate about working with organisations to avoid risk and improve outcomes by proactively building and supporting positive, inclusive and resilient workplace cultures where staff feel valued and respected and diverse talent can thrive.
Jillian focuses on workplace investigations and broader reviews helping organisations gain insight into their workplace culture and on developing and implementing systemic solutions and culture change strategies to tackle issues such as bullying, harassment and workplace conflict. Jillian is also a CEDR accredited mediator.
Laura Durrant, Partner
ldurrant@equitura.co
Laura has spent her career advising organisations on understanding and resolving issues, as both a lawyer and advisory consultant. Laura was formerly Head of Litigation, Regulatory and Investigations at a large financial institution and a Partner at a global law firm before establishing Equitura in 2021.
Laura focuses on the drivers of organisational issues and the effective management of associated risks. This work is essential in order to support leaders to understand and identify the ways in which diverse cultures can be harnessed to foster positive challenge and inclusive debate, driving business success.
Alongside her work with Equitura, Laura is the CEO of the not for profit, the Black Talent Charter, which works with British business to embed equity of opportunity and representation for black talent, and a Trustee of the charity, Action for Race Equality. Laura is also the Chair of technology company, Associo, which uses a structured reasoning system to streamline the provision of advisory services and equips organisations with the tools to better leverage and support the expertise of their people. In 2023, Laura completed a Masters at UCL on Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies.
Maddy Durrant, Partner
mdurrant@equitura.co
Maddy has worked at senior levels in the private and public sector having spent over ten years working on behaviour change campaigns agency side before becoming head of communications for a national charity. Maddy subsequently spent several years as a qualified teacher and pastoral lead. Maddy combines her knoweldge of business strategy and communications with her knowledge of pedagogical practice and theory to deliver workshops and training on a wide range of inclusion challenges.
Maddy now specialises in working with leaders in addressing and dismantling racial systemic barriers and is a Director of the Black Talent Charter, a not-for-profit working with large organisations on race equity to bring about systemic change across British business.
Cliff Kamara, Partner
ckamara@equitura.co
Cliff has over twenty years of experience of building and leading high performing technology teams in the UK, regionally (EMEA) and internationally.
Most recently he was the Managing Director of the European Entity of Argo AI, a robotics and artificial intelligence company, where he led the restructuring and sale of that entity to VW.
Cliff started his career in the British Army where he qualified as a Communications Systems Engineering Officer and gained a foundation in high performance technical leadership in a number of roles supporting United Kingdom Special Forces operations in the UK and across the globe over the course of a decade. He was formerly the Chief Information Security Officer of Deloitte Switzerland and the lead of a regional cybersecurity function covering over twenty countries across EMEA.
Cliff is passionate about building diverse, technically capable and cohesive teams that make use of the best talent from globally and locally to achieve challenging business goals. He is also an experienced leadership and management coach, particularly in mentoring leaders in transition to senior C-Suite roles.