Registration and Presentation Timeline:
- Meeting Registration: 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
- Breakfast served during registration
- Presentation begins at 8:00 AM
- Presentation ends at 9:30 AM
Recertification Credits: 1.50 HRCI (General) and 1.50 SHRM PDCs Codes will be provided to those in attendance at the in-person meeting.
Topic: Transforming Your Organization’s Performance Management Program
Details:
Summary:
Learn how to transform your performance management approach from a reactive to proactive driver of employee growth and organizational success. This program equips leaders with actionable strategies for goal alignment, effective feedback techniques, and individual development planning. Learn to cultivate a high-accountability culture that drives sustained competitive advantage and long-term success.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn how to develop a performance management plan that replaces reactive troubleshooting with proactive milestones for employee growth and organizational alignment.
- Participants will learn how to create performance indicators and accountability standards to create a high-accountability culture.
- Participants will learn how to facilitate goal-setting sessions and deliver effective feedback.
Presenter Bio, Kim Nash, SHRM-SCP:
As a passionate human resource professional, Kim Nash has spent more than 35 years as a trailblazer to advance the profession and mentor human resource professionals along their growth and development journey. After several years of working for organizations as their first HR leader, Kim transitioned into a consulting role.
She has partnered with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, for profit and not for profit, to mentor their human resource professionals and to assist in strengthening the human resource function of the organization.
In December 2025, Kim joined Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC leading their organizational development team partnering with organizations to provide a variety of business consulting, training & development, compliance management, and other human resource related services. In the spring of 2023, Kim’s first book was published, Burn the Plow, her story of career journey, and the lessons learned along the way.
Kim has had the opportunity to speak on leadership and human resource related topics at a variety of events locally and nationally including the 2019 & 2022 National SHRM Conferences.
Kim has spent more than 25 years teaching the SHRM HR Essentials, the SHRM Learning System, and other human resource related courses to mentor and encourage human resource professionals to grow in their professional development and pass the certification exam! Kim teaches through a variety of universities and SHRM Partners.
Kim holds the SHRM-SCP certification through the Society of Human Resource Management, the SPHR certification through HR Certification Institute, the Compensation Management Specialist designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits, and has completed the John C. Maxwell Certification Program to teach, coach, train, and speak.
Kim is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a Past President of the Human Resource Professionals of Central PA. She is a graduate of York College of PA with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Business Education, and holds an MBA/Human Resource Management from the University of Phoenix.
Recertification Credits: 1.50 HRCI (General) and 1.50 SHRM PDCs Codes will be provided to those in attendance at the in-person meeting.

This activity has been approved for 1.5 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.
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This program has been approved for 1.5 Professional Development Credits (PDC) toward SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP recertification through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). HRMA of Blair County is recognized by SHRM to offer (PDCs) for SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. Please be sure to note the program ID number in the online portal, www.portal.shrmcertification.org. For more information about SHRM certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org