GEB sponsored the fifth edition of Foro Multilatinas the annual conference organised by AméricaEconomía, Latin America’s leading business publication.
With over 200 delegates regularly attending, including top officials from national and international organisations, and senior executives/entrepreneurs, the event has quickly established itself as the major forum in the region to advance internationalisation of Latin America companies.
The event took place on 15 and 16 October 2015 in Miami, a city that traditionally represents a hub for Latin-America companies’ global business. The event theme was in fact dedicated this year to “The Emergence of Multilatinas on the Global Scene”.
The ambition is to go beyond regional consolidation, and support so called Multilatinas companies growing into major players in the global arena.
The programme included three main areas of debate:
- The global stake,
- Financing globalisation, and
- Multilatino talent and innovation.
The latter in particular aimed to highlight the fundamental role played by human capital in the creation of company value. Among the topics discussed, the social role Multilatinas should play, learning from best private-led initiatives, and strategic management of talent to retain and acquire the right skills to stay competitive internationally. Against a backdrop of growing expansion and integration into global markets, the capacity to attract and develop truly global talent emerges as key to boosting Multilatinas positioning abroad.
GEB participated in an experts panel focused on main challenges Multilatinas companies face when dealing with global talents, and including:
- Managing mobility programmes at a global scale, ensuring the right skills are readily available where most needed,
- Devising benefits as retention tools to satisfy the needs of international executives and their families, and
- Training multi-cultural and global-minded executives, who can operate effectively outside their region and within international teams.
Mr Pasquale Gorrasi, Head of GEB Network International Lines, discussed how international solutions can provide employers with the flexibility they need to manage in a coordinated way their international mobility programs.
An international approach allows for developing a consistent strategy for expatriation and talent management worldwide, based on common principles and practices, and for preserving flexibility at local level, thus to adapt to specific market conditions and also take into account different stages in each company’s internationalisation process. 
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