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Whether you are looking for connections with your peers, credibility within your organization, skills to build your professional competence or an avenue to hone your leadership skills, SHRM-KC is a critical element in your personal strategic plan. With hundreds of members and a history that dates back to 1953, SHRM-KC offers you a host of ways to leverage your career, your job and your profession.

Members receive access and discounts to meetings, conferences and many other events offered annually for professional development, continuing education, and networking, many of which are “members only” events with recertification credits:

Find out why current members decided to join SHRM-KC and learn more about their participation by exploring their testimonials. 

Professional Development & Networking

Professional Development. Our monthly programs, seminars, webinars and annual conference explore a wide range of HR topics such as workplace trends and strategy, diversity/equity/inclusion/belonging, and compliance with state and federal legislation. Members are also encouraged and invited to attend the annual SHRM Missouri State Conference. See our upcoming events...

Forge a Professional Circle of Colleagues. Each gathering of SHRM-KC, whether in-person or virtual, provides an opportunity to interact with the best and brightest HR professionals in the Kansas City area. In addition to our educational programming, social events and community partnering activities allow you to meet – and learn from – your peers.

Special Interest Groups & Committees. Organized discussion groups such as Coffee Chat, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion/Belonging Dialogues, and Book Club, along with Committee participation, provide further professional development and networking opportunities.

Advance Your Career. Our professionally facilitated SHRM Certification preparation class helps members prepare for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP exams. SHRM-KC members receive a 10% discount on registration fees.

Mentor/Mentee Program. Our program provides opportunities for emerging professionals to gain an experienced HR practitioner’s perspective to grow in their HR career. Mentors benefit too, by contributing to the development of the future HR workforce.

Membership Directory. The online directory contains a listing of members by name and employer and is an exclusive "members only" tool for networking with the over 600 HR professionals in the Kansas City Metro Area. 

Engage With Us. HR professionals and service providers are invited to engage with each other through SHRM-KC’s public and private social media groups including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Be a Dual Member. The benefits aren’t just local. On top of the perks right here in Kansas City, members can also join SHRM and tap into its national - even international - benefits. As a SHRM member, you also have access to www.shrm.org which includes publications, discussion groups, professional conferences, research and special discounts!