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Membership Director

Overview

The Membership Director is responsible for providing leadership to membership activities in chapters, particularly assuring that chapter membership directors have access to resources necessary to recruit at-large SHRM members to chapters, local chapter members only to SHRM, and non-affiliated HR professionals to both organizations.

 


 

SHRM Strengthens Chapter Membership Through Dual Membership Release (DMR)


SHRM is committed to supporting and growing membership in local SHRM Chapters. The Dual Membership Release (DMR) program provides robust resources to help chapters expand dual membership. With DMR, SHRM members and existing dual members can obtain and renew both their national and local memberships in a single, streamlined transaction.

Dual membership offers HR professionals access to a wealth of benefits—empowering them to excel in their careers and contribute to advancing the HR field.
When a chapter becomes DMR, individuals must be a national SHRM member to join their local SHRM chapter.

We are excited to congratulate Oshkosh Area SHRM and SHRM Racine and Kenosha Area Chapter, who converted to DMR chapters this month! They join Blackhawk Human Resource Association, the first Wisconsin chapter to adopt DMR.

Thank you to these chapters for leading the way in strengthening the HR community across Wisconsin!

 


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Contact Information

 

Jessica VanderPloeg,
SHRM-CP, MBA
Membership Director


Em:  membershipdirector@wishrm.org

Term start:  1/1/2026


Biography

Jessica VanderPloeg, SHRM-CP, is the Vice President of Human Resources and Administration at Mutual of Wausau Insurance Corporation, where she has been since 2013. She is a HR Department of One and handles everything HR related plus many administrative duties. She has been in the HR field for almost two decades.

Jessica received a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Human Resource Management in 2013. She obtained the SHRM-CP in June of 2016. Jessica is also an active member in the Central Wisconsin Society for Human Resource Management (CWSHRM) chapter. Since becoming a member in 2014 with CWSHRM, she has held many roles such as Diversity Director, Membership Director, President-Elect, President, and Past President. 
 

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