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Global Employment Company (GEC) – what is it and why?

With Mario Ferraro

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Global Employment Company (GEC) – what is it and why? With Mario Ferraro

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of ITX Singapore 
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Mario Ferraro is Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of ITX Singapore and an internationally recognised thought Leader in the area of Global Mobility and International HR.

In this Take 5, Mario brings us an update on the rise of the Global Employment Company (GEC) and why it’s becoming a popular choice for companies to transition to this model in order to streamline cross-border operations, in the wake of the pandemic and the increase in hybrid and remote working trends.

The implications of tax when working & traveling overseas – things you might not know!

With Ursula Dyer Lepporoli

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The implications of tax when working & traveling overseas – things you might not know! With Ursula Dyer Lepporoli

Partner – Global Mobility Tax Leader of Victoria, KPMG
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Ursula Lepporoli is a proven leader forged through 15+ years extensive experience as a strategic global mobility tax expert providing a full suite of tax services to companies with international talent.

Managing clients across all industries including but not limited to: FMCG, Health, Defence, ENR and Education.

Bringing insight and innovation to tax policies, compliance and talent management strategies including the next stage of mobility… Work From Anywhere.

Ursula is passionate about empowering people to find the joy in complex concepts and communicating in a way that brings people along for the journey.

Career highlights include:

  • Featured in the 2022 KPMG International Women’s Day video as a newly promoted partner.
  • American by birth, Australian by choice. Participating in the American Chamber of Commerce Leadership Academy in 2022 and selected to co-lead the KPMG Australia approach to the US-Australia corridor.
  • Lead the automation transformation of ATO correspondence to digitise the processing, analysis and delivery to clients.
  • Lead the national compliance approach for global mobility tax services at KPMG to re-shore all delivery back to Australia. Overseeing a significant investment in technology while simultaneously building a large team of experts based in Sydney.
  • She is passionate about creating communities where people thrive. She uses technology, process and culture as the foundation for our success. She was featured on Adam Grant’s WorkLife talking about her leadership techniques.

Ursula makes tax exciting and in this engaging and upbeat podcast, we are enlightened to the world of tax and retirement implications when working overseas. With the increasing rise in digital nomad visas, Ursula’s expertise is vital to anyone who either wants to travel and work remotely abroad, or who is enabling employees to do as such.

Our extremely informative discussion includes:

  • The need for a position, process & governance when it comes to enabling staff to travel and work overseas
  • Repercussions on the individual and the company, later down the track, on tax and superannuation
  • Ursula’s top three tax tips

Attracting workers from overseas – the visa options

With Jamie Lingham

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Attracting workers from overseas – the visa options With Jamie Lingham

CEO and Global Immigration Leader at Absolute Immigration
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Our co-host Jamie Lingham is also the founder, CEO, and Global Immigration Leader at Absolute Immigration. With over 20 years in the business, Jamie knows a thing or two about immigration, visa options, and how to attract and retain foreign workers.

In 5 minutes, Jamie provides us with some alternative visa options from the standard Sub-class 482. “We have more tools in our toolkit” and we are provided with a sample of other strategies that can be used when you are addressing the current skills shortage.

Making your mobility program more sustainable

With Keryn Mendes

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Making your mobility program more sustainable With Keryn Mendes

Sr. Global Mobility Specialist at Adobe
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Our co-host Keryn Mendes is a global mobility practitioner and in this 5 minute episode, we are given some great tips on how to make your organisations’s mobility program more sustainable.

In a nutshell, Keryn covers areas including aligning your mobility program with your organisation’s pillars, as well as establishing and implementing measures with vendor partners and other key external stakeholders.

Retention – as seen from both sides

With Lindsay Gordon

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Retention – as seen from both sides With Lindsay Gordon

Founder of A Life of Options
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Lindsay is an award-winning career coach for analytically minded people with her own consultancy: ‘A Life of Options’ (www.alifeofoptions.com). She helps people structure their thinking so they can be DECIDED in their careers, and move forward to explore, experience, and live life. Waffling about career decisions (sometimes for 10+ years!) is an unacceptable barrier to people doing what they want to do and feeling fully alive. 

Lindsay started her career working as a recycled water engineer in Melbourne, Australia before landing at Google doing technical support for the Google Apps team. After 5 years of technical support, she transitioned into career development at Google before starting her own business. 

In 2021, Lindsay was named to the Forbes Next 1000 list and she has been featured in publications and podcasts such as Business Insider, Thrive Global, How to Be Awesome at Your Job, and Side Hustle School. Lindsay loves applying her engineering brain to helping people find careers that fit, baking complicated pastries, and barbershop singing.

With her experience and background, Lindsay had an insightful discussion with Keryn and Jamie which provided a view from both an employer and employee – sharing observations from both sides when it comes to decisions on careers and the pressure on both sides.

Our informed discussion includes:

  • Helping employees who become disengaged 
  • The pressures & tension that employees feel regarding their career
  • Why people are seeking a career change, post-pandemic