WASHRM 2025 August Member Meeting

8a-8:45a Registration, Breakfast, and Networking
8:45a-9:30a WASHRM Business Meeting
9:30a-10:30a Presentation

**We will be selling raffle tickets at this meeting for our "Employment Law" basket, which will include 2 FREE Tickets (valued @ $99/each) to the September Employment Law Day. Tickets will be $3/each or $10 for 5 tickets.**

Featured Non-Profit: Winchester Rescue Mission

Featured Meeting Sponsors: 

Featured Speaker: 

Resilient By Design

Even in the face of uncertainty, resilient leaders rise. In this focused session, uncover simple yet powerful ways to stay grounded, connect with others, and speak confidently about what drives you. 

Resilience in leadership embodies the capacity to adapt, persevere, and lead effectively, inspiring teams to overcome challenges, learn from setbacks, and thrive in ever-changing environments.

• Prioritize Relationships – Identify tools that can help create opportunities to appreciate, thank, and share learning moments with others.

• Foster Wellness – Discuss best practices for personal and professional wellness and how to make change.

• Find Purpose – Know your worth by practicing impromptu networking style questions to be able to easily articulate your worth, ideas, and passions to others.

Our presenter, Vicky Fields, SHRM-SCP is a human resources expert and the president of the Elevate Your Team.

About Vicky:

Vicky has knowledge, experience, and passion.  

Her entire career has focused on helping others succeed. While in restaurants she assisted in opening over 20 new locations focusing on training front of house staff. While working in casinos she created and maintained guest service, safety, employee engagement, & leadership development programs and initiatives.

She is also an active member of her community as she believes that to live in a good place you must be a part of it. She is on the Board for Wild & Wonderful Toastmasters, Program Director for the Eastern Panhandle Society for Human Resources Management (EPSHRM), Board Member for Jefferson County Parks & Rec, Board Member for Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and proud recipient of the 2022 Chuck Ellison Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award.

Vicky brings both an operations and systems background to all of her projects and has made it a personal mission to not let training be boring. By understanding how people learn and bringing information to them in a way that is actionable she can give your team the tools they need to be safe and succeed.