Scott D. Ferrin has been a regional director in the Membership department of SHRM since 2010. A member of the Field Services Team, he acts as a liaison between SHRM and professional and student members and volunteers.
Ferrin manages state councils, chapters and volunteer leaders in Nevada, site of the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition, and Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah.
In his role, he serves 23,993 HR professionals. These members of SHRM support 8.4 million employees across eight states. Last year, he gave presentations about SHRM, the expert on all things work, and HR best practices to more 7,000 HR and business professionals.
For this year’s SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas, Ferrin connected 1,000 volunteers from the eight states with leaders who are overseeing volunteer activities supporting the conference.
He has more than 25 years of work experience in HR in the mining, financial services, insurance and education industries. He is an expert consultant and speaker on HR best practices. Before joining the SHRM staff, he held titles such as senior workforce planner, workforce planning manager, HR manager, talent manager, recruiter and HR generalist for companies ranging in size from start-ups with 20 employees to Fortune 500 companies.
Ferrin served in a variety of SHRM volunteer leadership roles before joining the professional association as a member of the staff. When hired at SHRM, he was the legislative director for the East Valley Human Resources Association, a SHRM affiliate chapter in Arizona.
He is certified as a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). He has held an HR Certification for more than 15 years.
Ferrin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in finance from Weber State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.