Beyond Tactical: Leadership Skills Essential for Strategic Impact

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Are you looking to enhance your strategic capabilities? Join us for a webinar on the core behaviors essential for strategic thinking - Acumen, Allocation, and Action. This session will help you transition from tactical execution to strategic planning and implementation. You'll also gain insights from the panel into the depth and application of strategic thought processes explored in the webinar. Take advantage of the opportunity to take your strategic thinking to the next level!

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Macarena Scalia

NEDRAC, Inc.

Macarena Scalia is currently employed with Nedrac Inc. based out of Lake Forest, California. Nedrac is a family-owned company with offices located throughout various cities within the United States.

Macarena has over 20 years in the industry. She joined her family’s business, at a young age, while working at Tumi International Movers which began back in 1989. As an integral part of her parents moving company, she learned all facets of the industry from move coordinator to general manager, tasks related to sales, surveys, rates, coordinating, and attending conferences just to name a few. Feeling the longing to implement her knowledge, she owned and managed her own moving company, Coco’s International Movers, Inc for over a decade. Her current role at Nedrac is as move coordinator within the Relocation and Mobility department.

Macarena is associated as an active member of IAM in the Leadership Alliance Council as well as a past PAIMA and ARA associations Board of Directors.

Macarena holds a BA (cum laude) in International Relations and Political Science from (FIU) Florida International University.

She currently resides in Miami with her husband, Salvatore and their two children, Salvatore & Vittorio.
Walter M. Laffitte, CPA

Canal Movers & Logistics Corp.

Walter M. Laffitte is a Certified Public Accountant born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied at Mount Saint Mary´s University, Babson College and the Institute Touraine in France. He has a Master Degree (MBA), Summa Cum Laude, from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.

Mr. Laffitte worked as Senior Associate in the Certified Public Accountants firm, Coopers & Lybrand, now PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 1990-1994.

In 1994 Mr. Laffitte was appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico as the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Commercial Office in Panama for Central America and the Andean Countries until July 2001. In 1997 the United Retail Association of Puerto Rico, representative of the small and medium enterprises, awarded Mr. Laffitte “Public Servant of the Year”.

In 2001 Mr. Laffitte became the youngest President of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Panama (AMCHAM). He served on the AMCHAM board for five years, which awarded him the 1998 “Member of the Year”.

He is president, founder/owner and CEO of Canal Movers & Logistics Corp., Panama Furniture Rentals and LARM Panama Relocation Services.

Mr. Laffitte has been in the Mobility industry for 23 years and he has been serving the industry at different associations at a board level position for the last 19 years.

He has been president of the Latin American and Caribbean International Movers Association (LACMA) and president of FIDI Latin America, 2015-2017. He currently serves as a board member of Overseas Moving Network International (OMNI) and was president from 2021-2023.

Married to Analisa Villalaz and has two children, Jean Paul and Anabelle Marie.
Anthony Shipp, CEO

M.Dyer Global

A Seasoned Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with over 25 years of experience in driving organizational turnarounds and strategically managing organizational change through KPI drivers, best practices, and entrepreneurial innovation. I am successfully optimizing P&Ls in the logistics and supply chain industry.
I'm expertly balancing sufficient yield in the present with necessary investment in the future, achieving aggressive growth goals, seeing opportunities that others don't, and making judgments and the tough calls to ensure success and increase bottom-line revenue.
I'm better known for my direct and decisive management style – yet collaborative. Always asking "why?" and encouraging others to evolve and stay ahead of the competition.
Kim Becker, CEO

Africa Mobility Services

To continue adding value to my organization through collective participation.
I firmly believe, that organization development through leadership with a clear and concise strategy is what separates "good" companies from "great" companies.

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Contributors

Macarena Scalia

Walter M. Laffitte, CPA

Anthony Shipp, CEO

Kim Becker, CEO