About Laura
After many years of leading Global Mobility and Immigration functions, I kept noticing the same thing. The hardest problems weren't solved by more headcount, better technology, or another vendor. What was missing wasn't simply resources. It was a matter of design: how a function is built to create value.
That insight became my work. The teams I led came to know me as a conductor, someone who hears the whole orchestra and knows that performance depends not only on the strength of each player, but on how well they move together.
My contribution is rarely a new tool. It's a different way of seeing the whole.
My career began in corporate immigration, working across several firms. From there, I advised international scholars and researchers at UC San Francisco.
Working with international scholars and their families, I saw that many spouses had left careers behind and couldn't work in the United States, and how isolating that could be. So I started bringing them together, from Thanksgiving dinners to weekend tours of the city. It taught me early that this work is not only about process. It's about people building a life.
That perspective stayed with me as I spent more than a decade leading Global Mobility and Immigration at Salesforce. Across every stage of my career, the core challenge remained remarkably consistent. Seeing those patterns repeat, and sometimes diverge, taught me to look beyond the visible problem to what was really driving the outcomes.
Today, my work focuses on how changing workforce models, talent strategy, technology, AI, and geopolitics are reshaping the role of Global Mobility. I keep this work focused by design rather than by default, working with organizations rethinking how the function is built, not just how it runs.
That early experience at UC San Francisco still anchors how I think about design. As technology takes on more of the routine, thoughtful design is what protects the moments that need a human, and keeps expertise where it matters most.
