Ms.Dee Byrd, CPP PHR SHRM-CP

Dee Byrd, CPP, PHR, SHRM-CP is the Managing Director at ClearCourse HCM Consulting. Ms. Byrd has over 30 years of Global Payroll Management experience and was the Vice President of Global Strategy and Initiatives on the APA Board of Directors, Past Region 1-Presidents Board of Advisors. She sits several APA national committees and is a contributing writer to APA publications as well as a published author of the Payroll Certification Guide.

Ms. Byrd is the founder and past President of the Mat-Su Valley Chapter of the APA as well as the past President, Treasurer and Education Chair and founder of the Northern Lights Alaska Chapter of the APA and past Social Media and Webmaster for the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the APA. Ms. Byrd has been an Alaska and California Certified Payroll Professional Study Group Instructor, and Chair of the Alaska Statewide Payroll Conference as well as the Vendor Chair for the California Payroll Conference. Ms. Byrd has been a speaker for several years at the APAs annual conference Congress as well as a Statewide Speaker for local chapters in her Region. Ms. Byrd has represented the payroll profession by speaking to the US Congress in matters regarding multi-state payroll taxation issues and has been an advocate for Global education for the past 20 years.