Leveraging & Positioning with Natalie Holder

Natalie Holder’s Bio

Natalie Holder is an American employment lawyer, author, corporate trainer, and organizational strategist known for her work in workplace diversity, compliance, and inclusion strategy.

Key Highlights

* Professional Focus: Specializes in workplace investigations, anti-harassment/discrimination compliance, executive coaching, and building inclusive, high-performance corporate cultures.

* Leadership Roles: Has served as Chief Diversity Officer for the United States Capitol Police and Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, as well as leading global HR compliance for Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

* Founder: Founder of QUEST Employment Initiatives LLC.

* Author: Written works include Exclusion: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion (American Bar Association Publishing) and Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Workforce: New Rules for a New Generation.

* Legal & High-Stakes Consulting: Barred in New York, Connecticut, and Maryland, she has delivered court-ordered training and counsel in high-profile workplace discrimination cases involving institutions like Fox News and the New York City Fire Department.

Talking Points: Leveraging & Positioning

Framing

Position is what the org chart gives you. Leverage is what you can actually move. They are not the same thing, and confusing them is why capable people stall in roles they have already outgrown.

The research on organizational power is unusually clear on this point: formal authority is one source of influence among several, and often not the strongest. What follows separates the two, then shows where leverage actually comes from.