GLOBAL TRADE
GLOBAL BUSINESS
and the Strategic Role of GLOBAL HR™
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MASTERMINDS CONVENE
in-person & virtual
Liz Espin Stern
Washington
Liz is a trailblazer who has spent her career helping companies manage their global staffing needs to attain a competitive advantage. In today’s corporate culture, Liz focuses on enhancing companies’ ability to move their professional and executive corps “anywhere, anytime” with ease.
She considers the distinctive trademark of her immigration and mobility practice to be maintaining resilient global compliance across HR disciplines – a challenge that a firm like Mayer Brown, whose leadership is committed to helping clients achieve transformative value in the management of their worldwide work corps, is uniquely suited to meet.
Specialties:
– Management of worldwide organization’s global worksite management, compliance with mobility mandates for business travelers, and international assignee programs for expatriates and third country nationals, and related risk management across disciplines
– Global work permits and visas for executives, professionals, and their family members
– U.S. employment-based, business, trainee, and investor nonimmigrant visas and immigrant employment-based residency cases
– Comparative immigration policy and trends spotting across markets
– Worksite compliance programs and benchmarked best practices
– Global HR policy and administration
Attorney Advertising.
Grace Shie
Partner,
Head of Global Mobility & Migration Practice
Mayer Brown
Washington
I represent a broad base of clients, from Fortune Global 500 firms operating in multiple jurisdictions, to start-ups and new market entrants. My clients operate in a variety of industry sectors, including financial services and banking, asset management and insurance, technology and communications, security and defense, engineering and manufacturing, life sciences, and retail.
I provide immigration compliance advice to public and private companies operating in regulated industries and across a variety of industry sectors and employer profiles. My practice includes the following:
– Advising clients on the use of available work permit and visa categories to meet hiring and training needs for a global workforce, including addressing remote and hybrid work demands.
– Counseling employers on the intersection of immigration, employment, and tax considerations when planning cross-border staffing and engaging in new market entry.
– Developing immigration compliance protocols and assisting employers in standing up bespoke global mobility programs, in the midst of major global or regional change.
– Advising on protocols for expatriate transitions in the M&A context, including consolidation, reductions in force, and reorganization.
– Advising private banking and HNWI clients on global investment visa options to acquire permanent residency and foreign citizenship, partnering with tax counselors and wealth management professionals on pre- and post-immigration planning.
My background includes five years in Hong Kong, where I led a top-ranked immigration practice covering Greater China and managed engagements for clients in Asia. This experience provides me with unique perspective on the advisory needs of businesses expanding into new or different markets, the operational challenges of different models of mobility management, and the risk spectrum for employer-based immigration sponsorship in different jurisdictions.
Mika J. Cross
Mika Cross is best known as a transformational workplace expert who has dedicated over 25 years of her career to making the world of work, work better. She works with government agencies, private and public sector leaders, and the workforce to help them adapt to the changing needs and demands of the modern work environment. She is driven by a vision of fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion for high-performing teams, working in a mix of on-site, remote or hybrid work environments. Mika’s background as an Army veteran, human capital expert, transformational workplace strategist, and innovator gives her a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities facing the workforce in the ever-changing world of work. Mika has a national reputation for leading and implementing groundbreaking, human capital policy and inclusive workplace initiatives, that help empower organizational health and performance across the United States Intelligence Community after 9/11 and beyond, across the federal government and private industry. Mika has designed and implemented award-winning remote and flexible work programs across various Executive Departments and Branches of government, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Office of Personnel Management, and the U.S. Department of Labor, among other Federal agencies, as well as private industry, working as Vice President of Employer Engagement at the fully remote company, FlexJobs. She is a highly respected speaker, trainer, and adviser who offers practical solutions and best practices for improving employee engagement, worker productivity, performance, and well-being. In March 2023, she was invited by the Government Oversight Committee to provide a Statement for the Record as part of their congressional hearing on the Nation’s Largest Employer- OPM and in December 2021, she testified as an expert witness for the Senate Hearing on the Future of Federal Work. Mika is a proud U.S. Army veteran who served as both a commissioned officer and an enlisted soldier. She is originally from rural Maine.
Rebecca Peters, Esq.
Director of Public Policy, Semiconductor Policy
Samsung Electronics America
Washington (inperson)
Rebecca leads the public affairs’ workforce, education, intellectual property, corporate social responsibility portfolios.
She is a part of a core team that has successfully passed and is now implementing the CHIPS and Science Act to grow the on-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.
Prior to joining Samsung, Peters was Vice President of Member Engagement and Public Policy at the Worldwide ERC®.
While there she contributed to the organization’s overall strategy as a part of the CEO’s leadership team reporting to its Board. Rebecca has also led workplace and immigration public policy at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). While at SHRM, she served on the CEO’s Culture Club and was a member of the organization’s senior management team. Before SHRM, Peters was the Director of Government Affairs at the Council for Global Immigration, leading its public policy efforts and the Board’s policy committee.
Rebecca sits on the Executive Committee of Compete America and co-chairs its advocacy committee. She also is a co-chair of the Semiconductor Industry Association’s workforce committee and co-chairs the American Semiconductor Industry Coalition’s Taskforce on Education Workforce Development and Awareness. She has served as a counsel for the Compete America coalition, led SHRM’s employer immigration compliance coalition and served for four years on the Women in Government Relations leadership team. She is a frequent speaker on issues of global mobility and high-skilled immigration reform and is viewed as an immigration policy expert both inside and outside the beltway. Earlier in her career, Peters practiced immigration law at a Washington D.C.- based law firm and served as an attorney and policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Justice’s legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service.
She was a Presidential Management fellow; received her J.D. and M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Los Angeles (virtual)
Bestselling Author; Workplace Leadership Trainer; Executive Coach; Int’l Keynote Speaker; Former CHRO, Nickelodeon.
Paul Falcone (www.PaulFalconeHR.com) is the principal of Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC. His practice is dedicated to keynote presentations, corporate leadership training, executive coaching, and facilitating corporate offsite retreats. Paul is the former CHRO of Nickelodeon and head of international human resources for Paramount Pictures, and he has extensive experience in entertainment, healthcare/biotech, and financial services, including in international, nonprofit, and union environments.
Some of Paul’s bestselling books from HarperCollins Leadership, the American Management Association, and SHRM include “96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire,” “101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees,” “101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems,” and “2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews.” His most recent release from HarperCollins, titled “The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series,” consists of five books that chart the talent management lifecycle, from workplace ethics to hiring and onboarding, leadership offense and defense strategies, and a specialty book for new managers to help them catapult to leadership success.
Paul is a regular contributor to SHRM’s “HR Magazine,” a member of the SHRM Speakers’ Bureau, a certified executive coach through the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coaching program, and an adjunct faculty member in UCLA Extension’s School of Business and Management.
Jack Jampel
“You get more out of life by giving more of your life to others”
Passion for Mentoring.
Challenges comfortable and practicable thinking.
Philadelphia metro (virtual)
Mel Smith
Managing Director,
AAVERSAL Global Logistics
Washington
From LinkedIn
Business Development Executive in Freight Forwarding, Relief & Development – Austere Environments
I am a Producer of Accounts with Global Brand Recognition; Initiator of Executive Level contacts & relationships with industry leading institutions – Corporate, Governmental, Diplomatic, Start Up or Emerging Market. Experienced in recruiting and hiring of personnel
I came t
o the industry with a background as a Licensed NY State Insurance Broker specializing in Risk Management – involved with account service/support and maintenance, business development, Account & Project Management.
Authored an ISO 9000 Quality Manual for an International Forwarder; I managed the certification and registration process for that firm.
I have lived in Munich for 2 years and worked as Driver and International Packer – Trained and Export Packing Certified
Ken Somers
My practice partners with business leaders and their teams to diagnose and solve the challenges of leading people and teams. We’re passionate about delivering pragmatic and actionable “answers for the real world.”
Connecticut (virtual)
Poland-based Basia and Kasia discuss APTITUDE and tech workers with Ken Somers
Heather DeCruz-Cornaire
CafeCoach #DUALCAREERissues/solutions,
FlexChoice, remote, human conex, human valuechain
London (virtual)
Big Data needs Thick Data for informed user-conscious global mobility decision-making and policy-shaping
Joseph McGuire
Dublin, Ireland (virtual)
Facial Analysis Expert
Behavioural Negotiation Consultancy
Executive Interview Skills Mentoring
Communication Skills Sales Training
Talks about #bodylanguage, #salestraining, #negotiationskills, #communicationskills, #healthyrelationship
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Fiserv
Global Mobility Leader
International HR Business Partner
Project Manager
Manages international and domestic relocations; ensures that assignees and their family have the best possible experience with the support of our vendors.
linkedin.com/in/stephaniemobility
Atlanta (virtual)
Stephanie is a Global Mobility leader with 15 + managing global programs and HR initiatives for Fortune 500. She is currently the Global Mobility Director at Fiserv, located in the Atlanta area. Prior to joining Fiserv, she worked 16 years with UPS serving various positions mainly in International HR and Mobility, with her last role as a Global Mobility Manager. She is passionate about Talent Mobility and values her industry partners. She is a board member of MARC (Metro Atlanta Relocation Council). She obtained her GMS and has lived in 3 different countries (Germany, France, US).
Matthew Burns
Managing Director,
Tullow International HR Consulting, LLC
linkedin.com/in/matthew-burns-23661
Washington
Tullow International HR Consulting is a practice focused on helping small and large companies doing business internationally. We can help with:
– Evaluating international opportunities and setting up international assignments,
– Reviewing policies and processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency,
– Advising on organizational changes, transitioning to new systems/suppliers or evaluating outsourcing, and
– Strengthening compliance.
We can help with all these and other Global Mobility and International HR challenges.
John Verrico
inperson
“Share Your Fire”
Speaker/Trainer/Coach
Motivational Leadership,
Team Building,
Personal Growth
M: 240-257-NERD (6373) | E: john@johnverrico.com
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16 yrs 4 mos16 yrs 4 mos Former President Jun 2018 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos
John Verrico recently retired from a 42-year career as a government public affairs, employee relations and communication professional, including serving as a Master Chief Journalist in the U.S. Navy and, most recently, Chief of Media and Community Relations for the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate.
As founder of John Verrico – Share Your Fire, LLC, John shares his knowledge and passion as a keynote speaker, workshop trainer, and coach on leadership and communication topics.
An international Best-Selling contributing author, John’s latest contribution is the final chapter of
Cracking the Rich Code, Volume 11… with Jim Britt, Kevin Harrington & many others, John’s chapter closes out the book …with a look at what holds us back.