Expat Expectations: Managing Global Teams in the Post-COVID Era

As the world gets smaller, companies of all sizes share a key concern: Finding, attracting, and retaining the talent they need to compete in a global economy, regardless of where it resides.

With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, this constantly shifting landscape became even more varied: Remote work instantly became the norm. Travel and immigration restrictions emerged. Borders obstructed frictionless global travel. Health care moved up the priority list. 

It has never been easy to manage, but the post-COVID era will bring deeper questions about the future of work, potentially affecting multinationals’ HR strategies and changing what it means to hire, onboard and integrate global teams. What will expatriates now expect, and how will the process of cross-border relocation change?  

On April 20, Global Atlanta will bring together a slate of expert speakers for a panel discussion helping your company address these challenges. Whether moving employees abroad or resettling them here in Atlanta, you’ll learn to manage a global team in our global city with minimal interruptions or impacts to your bottom line.

Speakers and topics: 

• Charles Kuck, managing partner, Kuck Baxter Immigration: Immigration policy changes affecting workforce mobility in 2021
• Michael Manely, The Manely Firm – International Family Law 101: Hidden pitfalls of cross-border moves and travel
• Dean J. Fusto, president and head of school, Brandon Hall School: The future of international education, and how to find the right fit for your child
• Heather VanderLande Cummings, realtor, Keller Williams First Atlanta: Atlanta’s enduring appeal to expat home-buyers and practical considerations for inbound buyers
• Brandi Samuel, director, tax, Windham Brannon CPA – Cross-border tax implications for your global workforce
  

Speakers

Brandi Samuel

Brandi is a professional tax consultant specializing in the areas of international taxation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from a tax perspective, general tax compliance, non-profit compliance, and individual taxation. Brandi has nearly 10 years of public accounting experience in which she devotes her time assisting clients on transactions throughout all aspects of their organization’s life cycle, including international tax consulting and compliance, acquisitions, dispositions, administrative compliance, and various other tax planning assistance.

Heather VanderLande Cummings

Heather van der Lande Cummings is the lead agent and owner of Van der Lande & Associates of Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta. She specializes as both a Certified Luxury Home Marketing as well as working with buyers who have recently moved to the Atlanta area from another country. Heather’s honesty, commitment to clients, and passion for what she does precede her. She credits her success in real estate to her ability to really understand and listen to her client’s goals as well as educate them on the process as well as the market. Her background as a certified Interior Designer as well sales of building products comes through as an asset to clients. Heather has an acute understanding of how homes are constructed to benefit her buyers as well as how to best present a home to sell quickly.

Dean Fusto

Dean J. Fusto is a 2020 recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University and the President and Head of Brandon Hall School, a global boarding and day school serving students in grades 6-12. His career spans three decades as an educational leader in boarding and international schools. He founded the teachlearnlead.net global edu-library in 2014 and it has amassed a following as a dynamic destination and learning community for teachers and school leaders seeking professional development and access to the latest educational research.  Dean is a past recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship and an EE Ford Fellowship from the National Association of Independent Schools. He has published 5 books and holds an M.A.T. from the SIT Graduate Institute and an M.A. from Columbia University and certification in Proactive Leadership from Cornell University. In 2017, he founded the Center for Global Youth Leadership and in 2021, he established the Therese A. Fusto Microgrants to fund student passion projects and innovation. His thought leadership work includes publishing widely on non-profits, organizational culture, international partnerships, and youth leadership initiatives. He can be reached via his LinkedIn profile.

Michael Manely

Michael has practiced divorce and family law for more than 28 years and has handled thousands of family law cases. He is admitted to practice in all Georgia courts and federal courts in the Northern and Middle District of Georgia, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. On December 5, 2012 he delivered oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in Chafin v. Chafin, securing a unanimous victory. Michael is the only all family law attorney to win a unanimous decision from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Georgia. Michael has built a progressive practice and a reputation for winning difficult, controversial and high-profile cases. He has successfully represented thousands of mothers and fathers in state, federal and international divorce, custody and child support cases.

Charles H. (Chuck) Kuck

Charles H. (“Chuck”) Kuck is the Managing Attorney at Kuck Baxter Immigration in Atlanta, Georgia. Chuck served as the National President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association from 2008-2009. He also served as President of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers from 2010-2014 and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Emory Law School. He previously served as an Adjunct at the University of Georgia for 13 years for both survey and advanced immigration law classes. He was named one of the top 5 immigration attorneys in the world by Chambers & Partners again in 2020, the “Best Lawyer-Immigration” in Georgia by Best Lawyers in 2020 and was previously named one of the “100 Most Influential Georgians” by Georgia Trend magazine. He has practiced immigration law for over 30 years, has spoken at numerous legal and business conferences on all types of immigration-related topics, has testified in Congress on various aspects of Immigration Law and Immigration Reform, is frequently quoted in the national press, and appears regularly on national and local television and cable news outlets.