Over 1 year of Member Engagement experience, Daniel Hirschhorn is a Membership Engagement Associate (MEA) at SHRM, Daniel provides direction and support to establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships with SHRM volunteer leaders, members, chapters, state councils, students, and other affiliates to achieve SHRM’s strategy and objectives regarding membership. Daniel serves as a resource to SHRM volunteer leaders, members, chapters, state councils, students, and other affiliates. Daniel plays a key role in guiding the membership division in the overall chapter, state council, and volunteer leader engagement and compliance, and is one of the primary contacts of SHRM to members, students, and volunteers. Daniel has a presence at national, regional, and local meetings and conferences as well as presents the SHRM message to members and potential members. Prior to SHRM, Daniel recently graduated from James Madison University in the spring of 2019. Daniel Majored in Organizational Communication with a minor in Human Resource Development.

Morten Wendelbo is a public policy researcher specializing in complex emergencies like natural disasters and pandemics and how they affect individuals, households, teams and organizations – particularly how these disasters and disruptions reshape economics, politics and everyday life. His many articles on these topics have appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine and CBS News among others. Morten is one of the founders of SIDIP, a platform for disaster experts, media and business leaders to exchange knowledge about disaster preparedness and response, and a Faculty Fellow at American University’s School of Public Affairs.

Andrew Mellen is an organizational expert, public speaker, and the #1 best-selling author of Unstuff Your Life! Andrew has helped over 100,000 people and businesses worldwide to declutter and simplify their lives while regaining time for the things that matter.

A sought-after authority on organizing and productivity, Andrew's addressed audiences from Dwell on Design and TEDx to The Great British Business Show and BlogHer.

Corporate clients include American Express, Genentech, Goldman Sachs, NetApp, Nationwide Insurance, Time, Inc., and the US Depts. of Education and Homeland Security. The media has dubbed Andrew “The Most Organized Man in America.”

He writes a featured column called “Ask The Organizer” in Real Simple. In addition, he has written for and/or appeared everywhere from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Fast Company to Oprah Magazine, HGTV and NPR. He leads workshops and speaks internationally while maintaining a private practice working with clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies, trade associations and non-profits to CEOs, award-winning filmmakers and authors, as well as overwhelmed parents everywhere.

In 2013, Andrew founded Unstuff U®, the world's first virtual university dedicated to organization and decluttering, offering classes, workshops and other online resources for businesses and individuals. Andrew is a member of the Experts Collective and serves on the faculty of the New York Open Center in New York City. He speaks frequently on the intersection of spirituality and organization at Omega Institute, San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, All Saints Church, JCC Manhattan and the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, among others.

Previously, Andrew was an award-winning playwright, actor, producer and director and the former Artistic Director of Alice B. Theater (Seattle), DC Arts Center (Washington, DC) and Shuttle Theater Company (New York). He is a contributing author to Yes Is the Answer: (And Other Prog-Rock Tales).

Andrew lives by his motto: More Love, Less Stuff!®

Magie, whose birth name is Magdalena De La Cruz Cook Garcia, is a Latino businesswoman who was born in an orphanage in Mexico. She grew up in poverty along with 68 brothers and sisters. She missed her opportunity to play basketball for the Mexican National team because she broke her collarbone. Shortly after she immigrated to the US on a basketball scholarship at the University of Charleston.

After obtaining her college degree, and not being able to find a job, Magie became homeless and lived on the streets. When someone recognized her, she was given a place to stay. A few weeks later, she entered a Fresh Salsa competition for the State of West Virginia and won unanimously. At this event, she was given $800 to start her business.

Not knowing anything about business and with perseverance, she created Maggie’s All-Natural Fresh Salsa’s & Dips, a company that grew into a multi-million-dollar business within 4 years and distributed products across 38 states to major supermarkets such as Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Whole Foods and many more. At the height of her success in 2015, Maggie’s Salsa sold to Campbell’s Soup. Shortly after, she went back to Mexico and rescued 31 orphaned children from a drug cartel.

As a CEO, Magie shares her unconventional and unique techniques that made her super successful in life and in business. She was given a Nobel Entrepreneurial Prize in Mexico, the Small Business Administration gave her the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the University of Charleston Awarded her into the Hall of Fame, and West Virginia inducted her into their Generation Next, 40 under 40. Magie is a board member of AFIRE Pinellas, an organization that provides educational scholarships to kids with disabilities.
Magie’s company has been mentioned and featured on the following news and Television Networks: CNN, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, USA Today, The Washington Post, Fox News, Daystar, the American Dream Television, The Shelby Report, Kiplinger, Executive Magazine, ABC, CBS, the show Ask Dr. Nandi, and has been featured in many more tv, radio shows, magazines and newspapers.

Magie is the author of the book Mindful Success™ - How to use your mind to transform your life (Amazon). She’s also the founder of success workshops and a success masterminds for personal and professional development for individuals and companies. She founded a movement with an idea to solve the generational issue of human (sex) trafficking. In 2019, she began working with the AOF Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival to make a feature film about her story.

Laura Northrop is a planner by nature and by profession.  She often was called upon to plan events for friends and family before it became a professional calling.  After graduating from American University in Washington, DC, she started her career by taking a bite out of crime with McGruff the Crime Dog planning events for the National Crime Prevention Council.  Since then, she has had a broad range of event experiences from an award-winning skin cancer prevention campaign called “Families Play Safe in the Sun” with the Women’s Dermatologic Society to award banquets and political fundraisers.  In her current role as an Event Planner for the Society for Human Resource Management, she plans conferences and exciting event experiences, including SHRM’s signature event, the SHRM Annual Conference for 25,000 HR Professionals.   In her free time, she loves true crime podcasts and exploring the trails around the DMV.  

Melissa Anderson serves as SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer for Albemarle Corporation.  She is responsible for all facets of Human Resources, which includes leading the execution of the Human Resources strategic plan, partnering with Executive and Senior Leadership teams to establish and implement key HR initiatives, and achieving HR objectives and approaches with an emphasis on business partnerships, talent acquisition and development, compensation and benefits, inclusion and diversity programs, and HR operations.

Prior to joining Albemarle, Anderson served as executive vice president, administration and chief human resources officer for Duke Energy where she was responsible for human resources policy and strategy, talent management and diversity, employee and labor relations, total rewards strategies and programs, and delivery of business partner services. Her administrative responsibilities included the real estate, land services, aviation and support services organizations.

Melissa has over 30 years of experience in HR, including serving as vice president of human resources of global financing at IBM Corp. During her 17-year tenure with the Fortune 100 company, Anderson created and implemented talent strategies and led several successful cultural initiatives. She has also served as senior vice president of human resources and government relations for The Pantry Inc., from 2006 to 2010.

Anderson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

A native of Boone, N.C., Anderson has a son and a daughter.