NOVA SHRM and its 665 members would like to CONGRATULATE those involved with starting and running the Mentor HR program for 25 years!!

Achieving levels of success is rewarding. Offering a helping hand to another for personal and professional growth is gratifying. Having a mentor is inspiring. NOVA SHRM's Mentor HR program has and continues to inspire HR's future leaders.

With that, a HUGE "Thank You" and "Congratulations" to Mentor HR founder, Mary Kitson, for her vision, leadership, and dedication to improving HR leaders. The program has been duplicated by other SHRM chapters. As a result, Mary's influence reaches far and wide throughout the HR community.

Representing the NOVA SHRM Board
Brian F. Willey - President
Ben Madden, - Past President
Marianna Knight, - Secretary and Mentor HR Alum 
Elizabeth Mull - VP of Communications
Teresa (Terri) Edmunds Dunbar - VP of Programs
Mary Kitson - Co-VP Mentor HR

Former NOVA SHRM Presidents
Scott Donnelly, 2011
Sharifa Gomez, 2014

Special Thank You to Mark Davila, SHRM Director, Strategic Affiliate Partnerships for attending and sharing his thoughts to a sold out room of alumni.

Are you a multi-talented professional with strong communication skills? Do you want to leverage your skills to make a difference in the community? Then you should volunteer with Northern Virginia (NOVA) SHRM, the 2nd largest chapter in Virginia! You will support Elizabeth Mull, VP of Marketing and Communications with content creation, editing and proofreading, email marketing and campaign deployment, and more. This is an excellent opportunity if you are looking to broaden your HR expertise, advance in a variety of creative, administrative, and technical capabilities, and learn from other passionate HR professionals.

If you're interested, you can click here for the job description, and click here to complete a brief 1 page interest form. We reply quickly, and look forward to learning more about you!

• Participants are engaged local and regional employers, like your own organizations.
• High repeat participant rate, over 75 percent, ensures that the data is consistent year-over-year.
• Strict job matching guidelines ensure that participants are matching to the same jobs.
• Granular jobs data, with over 80,000 data points collected across 530 jobs.

If you are looking to update your pay ranges, benchmark your benefits plans, conduct internal audits, or find your organization losing employees to competitors, these surveys will help you bridge that gap.

The surveys also include:

• Over 230 organizations participated in these surveys in 2023, covering twelve different industries.
• Detailed questions on 18 Policies and Practices topics, including security clearance data, projected pay increase budgets, employee turnover and more. 

• Salary data on 530 jobs, broken down by Organization type, size, revenue, location 
• The Benefits Survey includes data on twenty-three different practice areas, such as healthcare, retirement, work-life, and many more.

• Separate Government Contractors Survey.
• Access to Analytics– create custom reports, run comparisons to peer groups, and run through unlimited target scenarios to ensure that you are looking at the data most relevant to your organization. 

For more information, please contact Angelo Kostopoulos directly via email at akostopoulos@akroninc.net, 202-745-0272 or visit the survey site at https://surveys.akroninc.net/dcshrm/Info/About.

“As one of the leading institutions in Northern Virginia, we are excited for a partnership that supports the education of future HR leaders,” said Ben Madden, NOVA SHRM President. “We are also pleased that this enables us to deliver on our mission to provide continuing education and professional development opportunities for our NOVA SHRM members.”

“Mason is thrilled to become a stronger partner with NOVA SHRM and continue supporting the work of HR professionals in our region and beyond. As the largest provider of talent in the region, Mason understands the importance of providing career-ready graduates and workforce development solutions to the region and beyond,” said Dr. Brett Josephson, Associate Provost for Learning Initiatives and Continuing Education at George Mason University.

About George Mason University

As Virginia’s largest public research university, Mason provides an educational experience like no other. Mason offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate degrees with numerous minors and certificate programs to customize education, career, and personal goals. For professional development, Mason helps more than 3,000 people yearly upskill their abilities, achieve industry certifications, advance their careers, and step into new roles by offering the professional training they need to succeed.

About NOVA SHRM

NOVA SHRM is a community for HR professionals to learn, discuss, network, and share resources and best practices. NOVA SHRM membership provides exclusive programs and resources to develop HR knowledge and expertise. Chartered in 1979 as an affiliate of the Society of Human Resource Management, NOVA SHRM is the second-largest chapter in Virginia and the largest in Metro DC. For additional information, please contact Brian Willey, president-elect, and vice president of NOVA SHRM partnerships, at novashrmprezelect@gmail.com

Contacts:

LeeAnn Nunnery
GMU Continuing & Prof Education Business Development
lnunnery@gmu.edu

Ben Madden
NOVA SHRM President
novashrmpresident@gmail.com

Delta Dental of Virginia is the largest dental benefits provider in Virginia, providing high-quality, cost-effective plans to more than two million members. We have more than 50 years of experience administering dental benefits — that's why our customers stay with us an average of 10 years or more. With the largest market share of all dental carriers, one out of three people with dental insurance has Delta Dental.

“Employee benefits are a key component to support our member's employees,” said Ben Madden, NOVA SHRM President. “Delta Dental has been providing coverage for 50 years in an industry in constant flux. We welcome their support and help for our members.”

Delta Dental of Virginia is a member of the national Delta Dental Plans Association. Delta Dental member companies serve more than 83 million people in more than 152,000 groups across the nation. Delta Dental of Virginia’s mission is to create healthy smiles throughout Virginia and ensure access to quality oral care and health-related products and services. Through its foundation, Delta Dental of Virginia has donated millions of dollars to improve the oral health of Virginians.

"UHC is the market leader in healthcare in the United States,” said Ben Madden, NOVA SHRM President. “We are thrilled to partner with UHC to support chapter members as they navigate healthcare solutions for their organizations. The partnership will provide access to UHC’s vast knowledge and expertise to prepare our members for the healthcare challenges anticipated post-pandemic."

UHC is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the health system work better for everyone by simplifying the healthcare experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. “UHC is excited about this partnership,” said David Ware, Jr., UHC Account Executive. “Our goal is to increase HR practitioner’s knowledge of the healthcare industry and plans. The system is expensive, fragmented, and confusing. UHC has the tools to help benefits professionals and employees navigate the system and reduce their financial exposure.”

Read the press release here. For additional information on NOVA SHRM or partnership opportunities, contact Brian Willey, NOVA SHRM President-Elect and VP Partnerships, at novashrmprezelect@gmail.com.

About United Healthcare

In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and contracts directly with more than 1.5 million physicians and care professionals and 7,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated healthcare facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified healthcare company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.

About NOVA SHRM

NOVA SHRM was chartered in 1979 with fourteen members and has grown to over 600. NOVA SHRM is an affiliate of the Society of Human Resource Management, the premier HR professional organization with over 315,000 members worldwide. NOVA SHRM is the second-largest chapter in Virginia and the largest in Metro DC.