Past HR Person of the Year Award Recipients Through the Years
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Congratulations to this year's nominees!
HR Person of the Year:
- Gina Alm-Myers, SPHR, Brandywine Realty Trust
- Georgia Dimaano, PHR, Morphotek, Inc.
- Mindy Geib, SPHR, Vertex, Inc.
- Melinda Lapan, PHR, Seacastle Chassis
- Colleen McNichol, PHR, Child Guidance Resource Centers
- Jan Mehnert, SPHR, Wyeth
- Nancy O’Toole, Transcontinental Direct
- Lauri Ann Plante, SPHR, Virtua Health
- Gloria Sinclair-Miller, GPHR, SPHR, Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Susan Sproat, Take Care Health Systems
- Sheri Stephens, PHR, GROUPE SEB USA
- Charlene Troncelliti, SPHR, Quest Diagnostics, inc
- Lisa Warech, Protocall
HR Consultant of the Year:
- Phil Brunone, SPHR, HR Solutions LLC
- Leanne Cindea, Evesham Capital Management
- Steve Emerson, Emerson Personnel Group
- Teri Foreman Black, SPHR
- Greg Gast, SPHR, Proxus HR
- Wayne Johnston, Career Concepts, Inc
- Louis Lessig, Esq., Brown & Connery, LLP
- Shelley Potente, Right Management
- Christine Schaefer, PHR, CEM HR Strategies, Inc
- Stanley Schmuckler, The Valley Forge Consulting Group
HR Rising Star of the Year:
- Aaron Boucher, PHR, Renaissance Marble and Granite
- Jayne Grubb, Fernley & Fernley, Inc.
- Lauren Hurlburt, Albert’s Organics
- Erik Johnson, PHR, CIGNA
- Matthew Prail, SPHR, Kraft Foods
- Amy Richmond, SPHR, Campbell Soup
- Valerie Walls, PHR, Sovereign-Santander
- Carla Wilson, PHR, Steininger Behavioral Care Services, Inc
Congratulations to the 2009 HR Persons of the Year!
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Laraine Knauss, SPHR |
Antonia Cramp, PHR |
Nicole Sakowitz, SPHR |
Ellen Johnston, PHR |
The Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year Award 2010 Committee seeks candidates who represent “the best” in the human resources management profession. This highly prestigious award recognizes creative approaches and consistently high performance that benefits an organization.
Two New Award Categories Added
This year there are two new categories and more chances to be recognized! Learn more about the HR Consultant of the Year and HR Rising Star of the Year categories in the eligibility section below.
Regionally, we have approximately 5,000 HR professionals. Be among the elite in the region. Be the next HR Person of the Year, HR Consultant of the Year, or HR Rising Star of the Year!
Eligible Candidates Include:
- Any practitioner, consultant, generalist or a functional specialist who is a member of National SHRM and/or a Delaware Valley Regional SHRM Chapter.
- Any practitioner, consultant, generalist or a functional specialist who has not been nominated as HR Person of the Year in the past three years.
- Any practitioner, consultant, generalist or a functional specialist who has not won HR Person of the Year in any category in the past five years.
- An individual who has demonstrated excellence either by creative and innovative development of new ideas and programs or by the highly effective utilization of well-regarded principles in the human resources area. Specific achievements may be related to a project or an ongoing activity.
- Ideal candidates will have a minimum of two years service with their current employer.
- An HR Consultant of the Year candidate is defined as a self-employed individual or an individual working or owner of their own HR consulting business with at least five years of experience. Must provide two letters of recommendations with acceptance application.
- An HR Rising Star of the Year candidate is defined an HR professional that has less than 8 years of experience in HR.
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