PerchPeek Pods - Global Mobility Pros

Paul Bennett
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PerchPeek Pods is the only place to be getting the full inside scoop of the stories, successes and strategies of the best minds in Global Mobility. PerchPeek CEO Paul Bennett will sit down each week to discuss Mobility with an awesome GM leader guest. They'll be diving deep into their personal experiences and careers in the Global Mobility space, sharing valuable insights and advice that will benefit all levels of GM professionals. Paul will be asking these pros about how they've achieved success for themselves and their companies in the relocation world. From navigating challenges to seizing opportunities, this is an amazing chance to tap into this wealth of knowledge and inspiration, that others can take into their own careers and organisations. Our guests will also be sharing their thoughts on the future of the industry- get ready to gain some insider perspectives on where Global Mobility is headed and how you can stay ahead of the curve. So, if you're eager to learn from the best in the business and get a sneak peek into the minds of some cracking GM leaders, listen in each week for the new PerchPeek Pods episode!

  1. 12h ago

    Episode #119 - Stop Costing The Move. Start Costing What Breaks Without It | Grace Dillinger, Harting

    In this episode, Paul sits down with Grace Dillinger, Global Mobility & Compensation Manager at HARTING, to talk about getting Mobility into the business conversation early enough to be useful. Grace came into Mobility through consulting and went in-house at Unilever at a point when the function still reported into finance and corporate tax. There was no system for mobility, so her team built one. Since then she's worked across Johnson & Johnson and Standard Chartered, from Singapore, China, Stockholm, and now Switzerland. Her argument is that the function's value no longer shows up in the cost of a move. When HARTING was ramping up a US facility and newly hired employees were damaging machines HARTING manufactures itself, Grace deployed German colleagues on short- and long-term assignments to train people and protect production — then costed that deployment against what it saved the business. We discuss: How do you prove Mobility's ROI when the saving sits in the business, not in the move?What did Global Mobility look like when it reported into finance and corporate tax rather than HR?What skills actually make a Mobility leader, if it isn't knowing tax and immigration in every market?Does it matter where Mobility sits in an organisation?Why does living and working abroad yourself make you better at this job?How do you build a career that can go beyond Mobility, if you want it to? We hope you enjoy.

    Episode #119 - Stop Costing The Move. Start Costing What Breaks Without It | Grace Dillinger, Harting

  2. Oct 26

    Episode #118 - Your Process Map Only Works When Everyone Can See It | Reda Belabed, MiniMed

    In this episode, Paul sits down with Reda Belabed, Senior Manager, Global Mobility and Immigration at MiniMed. They get into how you rebuild a Mobility programme when you've inherited one that isn't working, and where most teams start in the wrong place. Reda has spent 17 or 18 years in Mobility and immigration, in-house and on the supply side, at GE, Honeywell and now MiniMed. He's also relocated across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the US himself, first as the son of a retired diplomat and later as the one signing the paperwork. His framework is people, process, system, in that order. Spend the first 30 days asking open questions and letting your stakeholders talk. Then map the process - and share the map. Keep it to yourself, he says, and all it does is give you a detailed record of who to be annoyed at. Put your RMC, tax and immigration partners in the room with your internal teams and the duplication shows up fast. We discuss: Where do you start when you've inherited a Mobility programme that isn't working?What should the first 30 days look like, and why do open questions beat a specific list?Which processes are worth mapping when every case type is different?What happens when your RMC, tax and immigration partners read the map in the same room?How do you build the business case for technology when most of the benefit isn't a dollar figure?What do you look for in a Mobility hire who isn't an immigration expert? We hope you enjoy!

    Episode #118 - Your Process Map Only Works When Everyone Can See It | Reda Belabed, MiniMed

  3. Oct 13

    Episode #117 - Moving Someone Isn't the Same as Settling Them In | Kat Osborn, Global Mobility Coach

    In this episode, Paul sits down with Kat Osborn, Global Mobility Coach & Consultant, to talk about the people on both sides of a move: the Mobility professionals who do the moving, and the employees and families who relocate. Kat has 19+ years in Global Mobility as an expat, a consultant and a transformation leader, including Head of Global Mobility at FIS and APAC Mobility Transformation Lead at Deloitte. She now coaches and consults for Global Mobility professionals and expat leaders. Kat expects much of Mobility's operational work to be automated, leaving the human skills as the job. She thinks Mobility people already have more of those than they give themselves credit for, from stakeholder management to project and change management, but rarely make time to step back and see it. She also asks what "hit the ground running" really takes for someone who's just uprooted their whole life. We often measure the success of the relocation, not the success of the person in their new role, and support for settling in is too often an afterthought, made optional or cut.  We discuss: How can Mobility professionals future-proof their careers as AI takes on operational work?Which transferable skills do Mobility people undersell?Why should Mobility teams stop and celebrate what they've achieved?What small, specific first steps actually stick?What does "hit the ground running" really mean for someone who's just uprooted their life?Why does settling-in support get cut, or come too late?We hope you enjoy.

    Episode #117 - Moving Someone Isn't the Same as Settling Them In | Kat Osborn, Global Mobility Coach

  4. Oct 13

    Episode #116 - They Want to Move. What Do You Still Have to Own? | Jaya Gangwani, Zalando

    In this episode, Paul sits down with Jaya Gangwani, Global Mobility Leader at Zalando. They talk about what Mobility still owes employees who are eager to relocate. Based in Berlin, Jaya has nearly two decades of experience across Mobility and HR, and has relocated six times herself, across four countries. She's run Mobility in very different businesses: sending software engineers to client sites around the world at Infosys, and supporting moves decided through a bid, months before anyone moved, at Alstom and Bombardier. Her view is that immigration stays core, the flex is where a package adapts to the person, and every flex decision needs thinking through for the precedent it sets. We discuss:When an employee is keen to move, what does the company still have to own?How do you flex a relocation package without setting a precedent you'll regret?What happens in the EU when the first question is "do I really have to move?"In bid-led businesses, why does Mobility need to sit close to the bid managers?How did one Workday field show a previous employer who was ready to move, and where?How do you support a generation for whom the move itself is the easy part?We hope you enjoy.

    Episode #116 - They Want to Move. What Do You Still Have to Own? | Jaya Gangwani, Zalando

  5. Oct 5

    Episode #115 - Why Mobility Should Own Right to Work Checks | Cassie Ramos, Biogen

    In this episode, Paul sits down with Cassie Ramos, Lead Global Mobility Partner at Biogen. They talk about why Mobility, not HR Ops, should own right to work checks. Cassie started out as an immigration paralegal and spent about six years as an immigration attorney. At Biogen, she leads global immigration and right to work, a remit she put her hand up for. Her argument is simple. Mobility already handles the hardest right to work cases, so it understands the standard better than anyone. Owning the process doesn't mean checking every passport. It means building the process, being the escalation point and training the people who do the checks. We discuss: Why should Mobility own right to work when its population is a small slice of the company?What did a new facility in Switzerland reveal about every other country?How do you take on every new hire without checking every passport yourself?How do you decide which countries to focus on first?Why are the US, UK and Poland the hardest countries to get right?Why is right to work a business continuity issue, not just a compliance one?We hope you enjoy!

    Episode #115 - Why Mobility Should Own Right to Work Checks | Cassie Ramos, Biogen

  6. Sep 22

    Episode #114 - 18 Countries. One Global Mobility Model: Thoughtworks’ Centralisation Story | Nati Silveira, Thoughtworks

    • How do you centralise Global Mobility across 18 countries without forcing every market into the same way of working?  • Why should you design the organisation first, before designing roles around the people already there?  • How do you get local teams comfortable moving away from long-standing vendors and processes?  • What skills matter most when building a centralised Global Mobility function? In this episode, Paul sits down with Nati Silveira, Head of Global Mobility at Thoughtworks.Nati is British-Brazilian, a proud mum, and has more than 18 years of experience in Global Mobility. At Thoughtworks, she has built a high-efficiency Global Mobility CoE supporting a 10,000+ person tech organisation, covering the full journey from talent supply strategy through to settling in and thriving. When Nati stepped into the global role, Mobility was highly decentralised across 18 countries, with different teams, vendors, processes and local ways of working.Over the following six years, Thoughtworks moved towards one global Mobility model, with a central CoE working alongside Mobility Operations. Together, Paul and Nati explore what that transformation actually took — from organisational design and vendor consolidation to stakeholder management, local resistance and the changing skills needed within a global Mobility team. We hope you enjoy :)

    Episode #114 - 18 Countries. One Global Mobility Model: Thoughtworks’ Centralisation Story | Nati Silveira, Thoughtworks

  7. Sep 16

    Episode #113 - When Immigration Rules Change Without Warning | Johanna Lennartson, Nimmersion AB

    • What happens when immigration rules haven’t changed, but the way they’re being applied suddenly has?  • How can Mobility teams capture knowledge that isn’t written down anywhere?  • Why does Sweden’s housing market create such a challenge for relocating families?  • How has Sweden’s international talent population changed over the past 20 years? In this episode, Paul sits down with Johanna Lennartson, owner and Managing Director of Nimmersion and President of EuRA. With nearly 20 years in Global Mobility, Johanna has worked across immigration, relocation, operations and management, giving her a front-row view of how both the industry and the Swedish mobility landscape have changed. Together, Paul and Johanna discuss one of the hardest parts of immigration today: not necessarily changes in legislation, but changes in how existing rules are interpreted and applied, sometimes with very little warning. They also explore how Mobility teams can retain knowledge from unusual cases, the realities of Sweden’s housing market, and what relocating employees actually need in order to build a new everyday life. We hope you enjoy :)

    Episode #113 - When Immigration Rules Change Without Warning | Johanna Lennartson, Nimmersion AB

  8. Sep 8

    Episode #112 - Five Exceptions in Six Years - How to Build a Mobility Policy That Actually Works | Dianne Couto Foutz, Pegasystems 

    How do you build a Mobility policy employees don’t constantly need exceptions from? What can historic assignment data tell you about whether your programme is actually working? When does a policy exception stop being an exception and become something the policy?  should address? How can AI dramatically reduce the work involved in analysing Mobility programmes?In this episode, Paul sits down with Dianne Couto Foutz, Global Mobility Leader at Pegasystems. Dianne is passionate about helping employees and organisations navigate global talent mobility.With expertise spanning immigration, relocation and policy development, Dianne combines strategic thinking, compliance excellence, technology and empathy to create impactful workforce mobility solutions. Dianne shares how she rebuilt a Mobility programme by going back through years of historic assignment data, looking at what employees had received, whether assignments had worked as intended and what happened to those employees afterwards.That work helped create a far more structured and equitable programme - one that has since supported close to 200 moves with only around five exceptions. Paul and Dianne also discuss her “rule of three” for policy exceptions, using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to think about Mobility benefits, structuring lump sums more effectively, and how AI could transform work that previously took months into something far more achievable for Mobility teams today. We hope you enjoy :)

    Episode #112 - Five Exceptions in Six Years - How to Build a Mobility Policy That Actually Works | Dianne Couto Foutz, Pegasystems 
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PerchPeek Pods is the only place to be getting the full inside scoop of the stories, successes and strategies of the best minds in Global Mobility. PerchPeek CEO Paul Bennett will sit down each week to discuss Mobility with an awesome GM leader guest. They'll be diving deep into their personal experiences and careers in the Global Mobility space, sharing valuable insights and advice that will benefit all levels of GM professionals. Paul will be asking these pros about how they've achieved success for themselves and their companies in the relocation world. From navigating challenges to seizing opportunities, this is an amazing chance to tap into this wealth of knowledge and inspiration, that others can take into their own careers and organisations. Our guests will also be sharing their thoughts on the future of the industry- get ready to gain some insider perspectives on where Global Mobility is headed and how you can stay ahead of the curve. So, if you're eager to learn from the best in the business and get a sneak peek into the minds of some cracking GM leaders, listen in each week for the new PerchPeek Pods episode!

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