This webinar will explore how well-designed global mobility programs serve as a core component of a modern talent strategy by accelerating senior leader development and strengthening leadership pipelines.
Drawing on real-world practice and organizational outcomes, the session will examine how international rotations, cross-border assignments, and multi-market experience broaden leaders’ perspectives, deepen market insight, and build enterprise agility.
Discussion will cover operational and strategic challenges confronting mobility leaders in 2026. The Association staff will provide a brief update on current immigration developments and implications for mobility programs.
Sally Massey, Chief Human Resources Officer, Colgate-Palmolive, will lead the conversation and you can read her wonderful thought leadership piece here.
Topics Covered
- 01 How international rotations and cross-border assignments accelerate senior leader development
- 02 Designing mobility programs that strengthen leadership pipelines
- 03 Operational and strategic challenges confronting mobility leaders in 2026
- 04 Current immigration developments and their implications for mobility programs
- 05 Building enterprise agility through multi-market experience
Speakers
Sally Massey
Chief Human Resources Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
Sally Massey became Chief Human Resources Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Company in 2020, shaping the enterprise-wide People Strategy and leading all aspects of the Human Resources function, including Global People and Organization Development, Learning, Inclusion, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations and Total Rewards.
Sally works closely with the Colgate-Palmolive senior executive leadership team to align talent, culture, and organizational priorities with business strategy. In 2025, Sally’s role expanded to include oversight of Corporate Communications and Community Giving, further aligning the Company’s people, culture, reputation and community impact efforts to the business.
Sally joined Colgate-Palmolive in 2000 as part of the Human Resources Leadership Development Program and progressed through roles of increasing responsibility, advancing teams in the U.S., Supply Chain, Global Marketing & Customer Development, Latin America and Europe. Sally graduated from Bowdoin College and holds a Master of Management degree from Cornell University.
Nick Piazza
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, Emerson
Nick Piazza was appointed Emerson’s chief people officer in August 2023. In this role, he leads the company’s human resources function, including employee experience, culture, end-to-end talent management, total rewards, diversity, equity and inclusion, acquisition integration, organization development and effectiveness, and human resources technology.
Piazza is a member of Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive, which helps develop and guide the company’s global business strategies. He also serves as executive sponsor of the company’s Diverse Abilities employee resource group. During his 19-year career with Emerson, Piazza has served in eight roles and lived on three continents. He joined Emerson in 2004 and served in human resources management and executive roles with increasing responsibilities at four U.S. locations over a 10-year period.
From 2014-2016, Piazza was based in London for Emerson’s Network Power business, serving as vice president of human resources for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and as general manager of a Munich-based business with $25 million in sales. After Emerson sold the Network Power business in 2016, Piazza stayed on with the new company Vertiv as vice president of human resources in EMEA for seven months. In July 2017, Piazza rejoined Emerson as the Singapore-based vice president of human resources in Asia-Pacific for the company’s Automation Solutions business. In this role, he managed HR programs and services for Emerson’s 17,000-plus employees across the region.
In August 2021, Piazza was promoted to vice president of global talent and oversaw enterprise-wide talent management activities. He was given additional responsibility to lead HR operations in October 2022. Piazza serves on the board of directors for the St. Louis chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Piazza has a bachelor’s degree in finance, a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations and master’s of business administration, all from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Gregory C. Hoff
General Counsel, Senior Director, Practice and Policy, CHRO Association
Greg Hoff is General Counsel, Senior Director Practice and Policy at CHRO Association, primarily focusing on labor and employment law and policy issues. Mr. Hoff received his J.D. from George Mason University in 2019 and a B.A. in history with honors from Wake Forest University in 2016. Mr. Hoff is currently a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Lisa Salas
Director of European Affairs, CHRO Association
Lisa Salas serves as the Director of European Affairs at the Association, leading and growing a senior-level community of Chief HR Officers and labor relations practitioners focused on navigating Europe’s evolving employment, workforce and societal landscape.
With over 25 years of experience advising executive leadership teams in multinational organizations, she brings deep expertise in:
- European labor relations and social dialogue
- European Works Councils and transnational consultation
- Workforce transformation, restructuring and change
- Navigating regulatory, political and trade union complexity across Europe
Platform & Access
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