August Chapter Meeting
Meeting Location: Virtual
Registration CLOSES on Wednesday, 8/12 at 1:00 PM
If you do not receive the meeting information by Wednesday, 5:00 PM email [email protected].
RCHs: TBD
Topic: Top 10 Focus Areas for Payroll Professionals in 2026
Today’s most effective Payroll Leaders must move beyond simply surviving the day‑to‑day and instead focus on intentionally shaping the future. This is the moment where operational excellence meets strategic vision—where the demands of the present open the door to thinking bigger, planning smarter, and elevating the impact of payroll across the organization.
In this session, we’ll explore the Top 10 Focus Areas for Payroll Professionals including the trends, capabilities, and strategic priorities that define high‑performing payroll teams. Whether you’re looking to strengthen compliance, leverage new technologies, enhance the employee experience, or expand your strategic influence, these focus areas will help you build meaningful goals and actionable objectives for the future.
By the end of our time together, you’ll walk away with:
- A clear understanding of the forces shaping payroll Insight into where you can grow personally and professionally
- A roadmap for strengthening your team’s capabilities
- Practical ideas you can implement immediately
- A foundation for your 2026/2027 goals, development plans, and strategic priorities
This is your moment to reset, refocus, and reimagine what’s possible for payroll — and for your own career — in the year ahead.
Speaker: 
Linda Obertin, CPP currently serves on the PayrollOrg Board of Directors, as Director and Senior Director, Human
Resources – Global Lead Payroll for Hilton Worldwide, where she provides executive oversight of
global payroll strategy and delivery for a highly complex, multinational organization.
Prior to joining Hilton, Linda held senior executive leadership roles across Finance and Human
Resources within Fortune 100 corporations. She brings more than 30 years of deep expertise in
global human resources, workforce administration, contingent workforce management, and payroll
shared services, supporting employee populations exceeding 300,000 across more than 70
countries. Her leadership experience spans both corporate and service-provider environments,
including senior roles within the service industry and Human Resource Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO). In these roles, she was accountable for large-scale global implementations,
operations, process excellence, and service delivery optimization for major enterprise clients.
In addition to her corporate leadership responsibilities, Linda has made significant contributions to
the profession through PayrollOrg. She is a former 2-time President (2010 & 2023) and has served
in Vice President and Director. As Immediate Past President and a PayrollOrg educator, she
continues to share thought leadership and champion the advancement of the global payroll
profession. Her contributions have been recognized with multiple honors, including the Certification
of Merit Award and Payroll Woman of the Year.
A passionate advocate for global payroll and shared services excellence, Linda values the
continuous learning and cultural perspective her work provides. Her experiences living, working, and
traveling across more than 60 countries have cultivated a deeply inclusive, globally minded
leadership approach, grounded in cultural understanding and real-world operational insight.
Outreach:
Second Story transforms the lives of children, youth and their families by providing safe havens and opportunities for them to grow and thrive. Their programs provide support at critical turning points in their lives.
- Second Story for Homeless Youth and Second Story for Young Mothers offer long-term housing as well as life skills support, counseling, and assistance with basic needs.
- Second Story for Teens in Crisis provides a short-term place to stay for youth in crisis, plus individual and family counseling.
- Second Story in the Community provides drop-in centers for families and after-school programs for youth who need more support outside their homes; many of them living in communities where human trafficking, violence, and gang activity are prevalent.
Though these safe spaces are the first step, they also work closely with youth and families to help them achieve their goals and work toward self-sufficiency, breaking cycles of homelessness, abuse, and poverty. All of their programs are located in Northern Virginia, though depending on the circumstance youth outside of our community can receive support as well.
Second Story was founded in 1972 and has a longstanding history of youth services and support. Their programs have grown and evolved as the needs of our community have changed, and they continue to work toward our vision of a community in which all young people are safe, live in a nurturing environment and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
For 2026, WMAC has set a fundraising goal of $3,000.00. WMAC will match all donations made to Second Story through our website. Click here to be taken to the donations page.
Tickets
$0.00 2026 Second Story
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June Chapter Meeting
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CPP/FPC Summer Study Group 2026
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