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Nonprofit HR is the country’s leading and oldest firm focused exclusively on the talent management needs of the social sector, including nonprofits, associations, social enterprises and other mission-driven organizations.
At Nonprofit HR, we listen intently to our clients and our thought partnership, expertise and approach equips them to create workplaces that attract, develop, engage and retain high performing talent. From education to healthcare, advocacy, environmental and community development, our clients are addressing some of the biggest challenges in society.
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From culture management to harassment prevention to diversity, equity and inclusion, Nonprofit HR provides the needed knowledge and insights for your organization to best support your people.
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What attracted you to Nonprofit HR? Nonprofit HR understands the many hats their employees wear and supports the flexibility required to maintain work-life integration. That is something I needed coming from my prior organization. I have aspirations and I’m a mom, so I needed someone who understands that family is my first priority. Beyond that, being able to create impact on a larger level and touch many clients was a big part of what attracted me to Nonprofit HR. I came from an organization where I was focused on HR generalist-level work. I was doing the same thing for the same organization. But here, I’m able to touch many clients with different missions and values and help them create impact for their community as well as their employees. If your employees are happy, you’ll be able to see it in the work they do for their community. Creating performance management systems, helping the organization manage leave policies and making sure their employees are comfortable with that is important. I work to ensure staff understand their organization’s policies, what’s expected of them, what they have rights to and have an overall sense of calm around that. What is your favorite aspect of talent management? The ability to elevate nonprofit organizations, help them reach their business goals, and continue to be sustainable. My background is as an HR generalist, but I work at Nonprofit HR as a total rewards specialist, so that’s focusing on compensation, benefits and systems. Comp and benefits are what employees worry about the most. When it comes to talent management, I hope that organizations create structures or rewards that help them retain their employees so it’s one less thing the organization has to worry about. If they have a very strong compensation program, very strong benefits design, the employees, the applicants, will come and will stay. |
That is something I truly enjoy about talent management: helping organizations create strong strategies around compensation and benefits.
What is the coolest thing you’re working on right now and why?
Ideating with my team and developing training videos for total rewards. It’s pretty cool because everyone learns differently. You have visual learners, auditory learners and learners who prefer to do it in real time. In our work, we’ve come across various types of learners and we recognize that.
We’ve begun recording instructions so clients understand how to do the work required of them in order for us to complete the project. This includes audio and visual instructions that they can both see and hear the work that needs to be done. It takes learning a step further. So if someone wants to go on a walk, they can listen to the instructions like a podcast. Then, when they sit down at their desk, they have an idea of what is already required of them. It adds an extra layer of bite-size information, makes the instructions more accessible and creates efficiencies.
Which two people would you like to have brunch with and why?
James Baldwin & Debbie Allen. James Baldwin and Debbie Allen’s storytelling of African-American history and culture is courageous, insightful, and thought-provoking. Through art, they explore love, justice, community, and the crippling effects of being black in America.
What is a fun fact about you?
I learned to ride a unicycle in grade school, and I am almost certain I still know how to.
My mom just cleaned out our house in Pennsylvania and found my unicycle. I haven’t been on it in years, but I learned in grade school as part of an after school club. It was all about unicycles. It was to the point that my dad was so excited that he bought me my own. Then I taught my brother how to ride a unicycle. I’m not too certain he still knows how to ride but we had our own unicycle for quite some time.
Before we had our own, I used to bring the unicycle home and practice in a park up the block from my house. It didn’t replace a bike at all though. It takes a lot of balance like a bike, but it also takes upper body strength and core strength because you need to move backwards and forwards. You have to learn how to stop and make sure you sit up straight because if you lean you’re definitely going to fall!
What is your favorite quote?
“Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It’s a lot of things. It’s something you can’t be afraid of, because you’ll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.” —Debbie Allen
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Shaunna Hook |
| Shaunna Hook is a solutions-focused Total Rewards Consultant with over eight years of experience in human resources. As a strategic compensation and benefits consultant, she advises on market competitiveness, partners in designing and delivering compensation training, develops and revises positions, and leads benefits assessments and administration. View full bio. |
