Meet The Author

Natalie Holder-Winfield is an experienced consultant and trainer who creates customized diversity in leadership programs for Fortune 500 corporations, law firms, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.  She uses her experiences as an employment lawyer—where she often resolved workplace disputes through mediation—to create thought provoking training sessions that increase communication, understanding, and respect in the workplace.  Natalie strives to make her training sessions interactive and engaging by using multi-media, original training videos based on recent trends, and discussion.  Since 2003, she has trained hundreds of professionals in such organizations as Time Warner, the New York City Bar, the Louisiana State Bar Association, INROADS, Connecticut Regional Water Authority and KeySpan Energy. 

Her new book Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Workforce: New Rules for a New Generation was written after years of receiving program attendees’ requests for her training materials.  New Rules provides human resource managers, diversity officers, managers, employees and students with practical advice and ideas for creating inclusive cultures.   The book has been used to facilitate discussions at orientations, meetings, roundtable discussions, recruitment events and diversity training sessions. 

Natalie prosecuted cases of employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination in government and law firm settings. She successfully litigated a landmark religious accommodation case against the New York City Police Department, changing the uniform policy for Sikhs.  In 2004, the International Bar Association (IBA)  invited her to its annual conference in Auckland, New Zealand to present her article “Diversity in the Workplace from a Law Enforcement Perspective,” published in the November 2004 IBA Journal.  In 2007, she was appointed by Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell to serve on an advisory task force that reviews and proposes diversity and affirmative action policies. She was also appointed Vice Chair of the Minorities in the Profession Committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Young Lawyer’s Division and was named a Labor and Employment Fellow for the ABA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.  She also serves on New York University’s Diversity Council.

Natalie graduated from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education and Tulane Law School.  She also completed the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth’s Executive Education program. She is a member of New York University’s Young Alumni Leadership Circle and the Tulane Alumni Association.   Natalie is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.