Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP is divisional director, East for SHRM. In her role, she is responsible for member acquisition and retention, leadership development for volunteer leaders, chapters, and state councils, and creating the value-added proposition for SHRM.
Leading a team of Field Service Directors (FSDs), she and her team partner with the State Council and Chapter volunteer leaders focusing on governance, leadership and development training, role and mission, and the volunteer leader life cycle. Her team covers the Midwest and Eastern States plus the Caribbean. Cheddie also leads SHRM’s Together Forward at Work Taskforce, is a member of the SHRM IE&D Council, responsible for SHRMConnect (the member-to-member networking platform), and is a SHRM Ambassador. Cheddie is also a highly sought after speaker where she speaks on leadership, empathy, inclusion, analytics, and transformation.
As the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace, SHRM serves nearly 325,000 members across 165 countries, impacting the lives of more than 235 million workers and families globally. Throughout its 75-year history, SHRM’s unmatched experience and long-standing commitment to HR professionals, business leaders and policymakers have led to critical advances in workplaces around the world. From providing evidence-based insights through cutting-edge research and technology to elevating conversations around mental health and wellness, SHRM has shaped workplace policies, unleashed pools of talent, championed DE&I and cultivated better workplace cultures.
Cheddie has more than 35 years of executive suite level domestic and international experience in all aspects of human resources and training. She has extensive experience with strategic planning, M&As, and in starting and turning around businesses.
Prior to joining SHRM, she served as senior vice president of human resources for Interval Leisure Group, Inc. and its affiliated companies. The company was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the leading provider of vacation services with a global consumer membership base of nearly 2-million-member families, more than 2,500 member resorts in over 75 countries worldwide and had oversight for more than 14,000 employees.
Cheddie also served as senior vice president, people with PRC, as well as vice president, human resources, strategic planning, office services, and facilities for The Orvis Company, Inc. in Manchester, VT.
She earned her MBA from Upper Iowa University, a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey, and is certified as a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional.
Cheddie received the HR Award of Excellence, Hospitality in 2016 from South Florida Business & Wealth. Business Leader Magazine named Cheddie one of the 2011 Women Extraordinaire and in 2012 the National Diversity Council awarded her the Glass Ceiling Award.
She serves on the Board of Trustees for Upper Iowa University, Chaired the Keiser Career College’s Advisory Board, was a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) from 2003-2008 and chaired SHRM’s governance and compensation committees. Cheddie has been a SHRM member for more than 40 years and volunteer leader for more than 35 years at the national, regional, state, and local levels. She also served on the Waldorf College Alumni Board from 2004 through 2008 and was the President of the Dallas HR Association in 2000 (one of the largest affiliated SHRM chapters). She resides in Southwest FL.