Sharpen Your Focus. Amplify Your Impact.
Leadership Edge is PayrollOrg's new video-based micro-mentoring track built for mid-career to senior payroll leaders navigating increased complexity and relentless stressors. Whether you're leading through change, influencing across functions, or balancing ethics with business pressure, this track was designed with you in mind.Mentoring Redefined!
Leadership Edge delivers fresh perspectives, strategic frameworks, and practical tactics that help you lead with greater clarity and confidence through a series of short, high-impact leadership topics.Across three pathways, you will build confidence in ethical leadership, strengthen cross-functional influence, increase agility in fast-moving environments, and sharpen your executive presence. The content is designed to help you lead with clarity and act with confidence, especially when the stakes are high.
Walk away with sharper judgment, stronger influence, and credentials that reinforce your commitment to exceptional leadership.
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Topic 1: Making Ethical Decisions that Matter: Integrity in Action
Navigate gray areas with greater clarity, courage, and accountability so you can continue leading with integrity at every level.
with
Martin Armstrong, DBA, MBA, CPP, EA
VP
Payroll Shared Services
Navigate gray areas with greater clarity, courage, and accountability so you can continue leading with integrity at every level.
with
Martin Armstrong, DBA, MBA, CPP, EA
VP
Payroll Shared Services
Topic 2: Managing Up, Down, & Across: Build Influence at Every Level
Lead cross functional collaborations with greater confidence and impact, shaping outcomes and driving strategic decisions.
with
Sue Baptista, CPP
VP, Director of Payroll and HRIS
Lead cross functional collaborations with greater confidence and impact, shaping outcomes and driving strategic decisions.
with
Sue Baptista, CPP
VP, Director of Payroll and HRIS
Topic 3: Leveraging Blueprints for Strategic Success: Plan with Precision
Translate organizational goals into clear, actionable plans that help you guide teams and initiatives with purpose and alignment.
with
DeAnn Doonan, CPP
Executive Director
Global Payroll Services
Translate organizational goals into clear, actionable plans that help you guide teams and initiatives with purpose and alignment.
with
DeAnn Doonan, CPP
Executive Director
Global Payroll Services
Topic 4: Navigating Decision-Making Under Pressure: Lead with Confidence
Gain tools to stay grounded, prioritize quickly, and make confident decisions when the stakes are high.
with
Carolyn Hayden-Garner
Director
Payroll
Gain tools to stay grounded, prioritize quickly, and make confident decisions when the stakes are high.
with
Carolyn Hayden-Garner
Director
Payroll
Topic 5: Reading the Room: Turning Insight to Outcomes
Strengthen your ability to understand group dynamics, anticipate responses, and adjust your leadership approach in real time.
with
Barb Muellerleile, CPP
Sr. Director
Finance, Payroll
Strengthen your ability to understand group dynamics, anticipate responses, and adjust your leadership approach in real time.
with
Barb Muellerleile, CPP
Sr. Director
Finance, Payroll
Topic 6: Navigating Boardroom & C-Suite Dynamics
Build the presence, awareness, and strategic voice needed to contribute effectively at the executive level.
with
Brent Skinner
Executive Community Leader
Build the presence, awareness, and strategic voice needed to contribute effectively at the executive level.
with
Brent Skinner
Executive Community Leader
Topic 7: Communicating with Power: Crafting Stories that Move Decisions
Use storytelling as a leadership tool-one that inspires action, strengthens alignment, and makes your message unforgettable.
with
Mark Thornton, CPA, CPP
Payroll Supervisor
Use storytelling as a leadership tool-one that inspires action, strengthens alignment, and makes your message unforgettable.
with
Mark Thornton, CPA, CPP
Payroll Supervisor
Topic 8: Own the Narrative: Framing Payroll as a s Strategic Partner
Explore how to elevate payroll's role by clearly communicating its impact, value, and strategic importance across the enterprise.
with
Linda Obertin, CPP
Sr. Director
Human Resources, Global Payroll Lead
Explore how to elevate payroll's role by clearly communicating its impact, value, and strategic importance across the enterprise.
with
Linda Obertin, CPP
Sr. Director
Human Resources, Global Payroll Lead
Topic 9: Leading through Crisis and Change
Build the resilience, clarity, and steadiness needed to guide teams through uncertainty and emerge stronger.
with
Lori Carter, CPP
Executive Director
Global Payroll and Timekeeping
Build the resilience, clarity, and steadiness needed to guide teams through uncertainty and emerge stronger.
with
Lori Carter, CPP
Executive Director
Global Payroll and Timekeeping
Topic 10: Amplifying Your Impact: Leading Teams & Systems that Scale
Strengthen your ability to empower people, build scalable processes, and expand your leadership impact across the organization.
with
Jamie Phillips, MHA, MHRD, CPP
Senior Account Manager
Workforce Management
Strengthen your ability to empower people, build scalable processes, and expand your leadership impact across the organization.
with
Jamie Phillips, MHA, MHRD, CPP
Senior Account Manager
Workforce Management
Topic 11: Elevating the Profession: Your Voice Matters
Learn how to share your expertise and perspective to champion the payroll profession and contribute to its future.
with
Davida Lara, CPP
Executive Vice President
Payroll Services
Learn how to share your expertise and perspective to champion the payroll profession and contribute to its future.
with
Davida Lara, CPP
Executive Vice President
Payroll Services
Topic 12: Sharing Your Leadership Story: Turning Experience into Inspiration
Translate your lived experience into meaningful insights that inspire, guide, and encourage those you lead.
with
Luanne Brown, MPA, CPP
Director
Payroll
Translate your lived experience into meaningful insights that inspire, guide, and encourage those you lead.
with
Luanne Brown, MPA, CPP
Director
Payroll
Sharpen Your Leadership Edge.
Join each industry expert for an exclusive masterclass & Q&A session. Take a deeper dive into the strategies and lessons shared in each video segment all while getting answers to your specific questions.