After over 15 years as a member of TexomaHR, I am honored and humbled to serve as President and lead this amazing association for the coming biennium.

Today’s business climate is unstable, with labor shortages, supply chain delays, and inflation, among other things. Employers are facing increasing wages, demands from employees for flexibility, enhanced benefits, and a sense of purpose and connectedness with others. Employees continue to depart their organizations for better opportunities.

As HR professionals we do our best to help our organizations attract skilled labor, retain top talent, grow the labor force to fit our organizational needs and culture, and create resilient and adaptive organizations. Our chapter members share the same challenges, which is why TexomaHR will continue to bring engaging and educational monthly speakers and provide opportunities for informal networking and problem solving. Your colleagues at TexomaHR can help!

My goal is to make our purpose come to life: to be the local starting point for networking, information, professional development and continued support of excellence in Human Resources. I hope that you will feel warm, wanted and welcomed at TexomaHR, and that our association will serve you as a valuable and strategic partner!

Whether you attend a regular monthly meeting, SHRM’s Annual Conference June 11-14 in Las Vegas, our annual conference (this year it’s a legal symposium!) on August 4^th at the Sherman Municipal Building, or the official State of Texas SHRM Conference, HRSouthwest, October 15-18 in Fort Worth, there are plenty of opportunities to build community with other HR professionals, be on the front line of new developments, grow personally and professionally, and make lifelong friends!

I’d love to hear from you. If you have any ideas or suggestions, programming requests, or want to volunteer with TexomaHR, please feel free to email me at Info@texomahr.org.

Make sure to subscribe and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn. Continue to check our website for new and different opportunities to connect with TexomaHR.

I hope you will join us. See you all soon.

Warm regards,

Diane Bielman, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP