Anita Barksdale
Auditor, Privacy Professional, Lawyer, HR Consultant, Trusted Advisor
Anita Barksdale started her career as an Information Technology Auditor with KPMG LLP. Anita served clients such as the then-newly founded Department of Homeland Security and stringent clients like the Department of Defense. She honed her audit skills during the infancy of Sarbanes Oxley and learned to adapt to changing organizations and changing regulations. She identified business processes and controls to increase efficiency and effectiveness while mitigating risk. Her technology, logistics, and project management experience also includes serving as an intern at Goldman Sachs and Accenture.
As a lawyer, Anita has served as a trusted advisor, counselor and litigator. She has had to cultivate trust during complex investigations and has experience taking cases to trial.
She has led multi-plaintiff litigation strategy and established herself as an expert in cases involving the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), National Labor Relations Act, non-competes, data privacy and technology.
She adds to that expertise through her human resources experience. She has served as a partner with management to use human resources to help support operational efficiency. She coaches leaders, advises and counsels managers and employees on challenging workplace issues, and builds policies, processes, and training to address complex human resource areas such as workers' compensation, FMLA, FLSA, and the ADA.
But beyond her work, Anita has always believed in servant leadership. In 2001, when she served as
Regional Representative in her sorority, she led women in the northeast, Germany, and the Virgin Islands in community service activities. She continued that leadership by serving on the sororities’ National Social Action Commission and its Long Range Strategic Planning Committee. Since then, she has led lawyers in the Houston Young Lawyers Association, Houston Bar Association, Texas Young Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association.
Anita is an intellectually inquisitive, well-organized leader. She is an effective communicator, trainer, and implementer of projects that require nurturing of relationships and strong ethical values. She is an auditor, a business woman, a lawyer, and a consultant who is here to serve.
Ready to start working towards solutions? Contact her today!
