Exit

General Information

The Greater Madison Area Society for Human Resource Management (GMA SHRM) is in search of speakers to provide two-hour presentations during our 2025 events. You can find the dates and topics for these events below.
  • Tuesday, January 21: (Virtual Program)
  • Tuesday, March 18
  • Tuesday, August 19
  • Tuesday, September 16
  • Tuesday, November 18

We invite you to apply by completing this Call for Proposal Survey by Friday, September 13, 2024. In the survey you should describe your proposed program and explain how your program matches our programming priorities as identified in the topics above.

Topics to be presented:

1. Retention
2. Employment Law FMLA/ADA/WC/UC Discrimination
3. Business and HR Strategy (Value of HR, Succession Planning, etc.)
4. Mental Health
5. Compensation &/or Benefits
6. Organizational Effectiveness
7. Training and Development
8. AI
9. Conflict Resolution
10. Recruitment
11. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
12. Employee Investigations, Discipline, and Discharge


We invite you to apply by completing this Call for Proposal Survey by Friday, September 13, 2024. In the survey you should describe your proposed program and explain how your program matches our programming priorities as identified in the topics above.

If you are selected as a speaker, you will be expected to:
  • Provide a takeaway deliverable such as a tool kit, exercise, or practical resource that participants can take back to work with them and implement.
  • Tailor your speech to an HR audience. Your information should add value by serving the HR professional, advancing the HR profession, or growing the organization.
  • Include clear session objectives, case studies, success stories, relevant supporting research, or other data to showcase the practical application of HR concepts, interventions, or new strategic initiatives.
  • Coordinate details, equipment needs, and other set-up accommodations with assistance from GMA SHRM’s Programming Committee.
  • Provide session materials in a timely manner for distribution to attendees in a written or electronic format.
Ensure your presentation is objective, unbiased, and does not contain a sales pitch of yourself or your organization. If your proposal best meets our programming needs, we will contact you by December 6, 2024, to discuss the details of your event. Thank you for your interest in sharing your knowledge with GMA SHRM. We look forward to hearing from you!

T