Meeting/Event Information

April 2026 Meeting

April 16, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

City View at Sterling Square
210 N. Fulton Ave.
Evansville, IN 47710
https://cityviewevv.com/

EHRA April 2026 Meeting

Thursday, April 16, 2026
11AM-1PM

CityView at Sterling Square

AGENDA:

11am-11:30am Registration and Networking
11:30am-12pm Lunch 
12pm-1pm Program

 

PROGRAM: From Paychecks to Purpose:  Making Compensation Meaningful

In this immersive, story-driven session, you’ll step into the shoes of three employees—an individual contributor, a manager, and an executive leader—to experience how compensation decisions shape real lives and workplace culture. Through vivid narratives and interactive moments, you’ll see how market analysis, pay transparency, and empathetic communication transform technical policies into meaningful employee experiences.
We’ll connect the “what” of compensation to the “why” that employees feel: fairness, recognition, security, and belonging. You’ll discover how small differences in pay impact daily realities, why transparency builds trust (or erodes it), and how manager conversations and clear rationale turn numbers into understanding. Leave with practical tools to translate data into dialogue, craft audience-specific messages, and design processes that are equitable, competitive, and deeply human.
Learning Objectives
Experience the Human Impact of Market Analysis:
Map survey data and pay ranges to tangible employee outcomes across frontline, manager, and executive roles. Understand how even small differences in pay can affect perceptions of fairness, engagement, and retention.
Operationalize Pay Transparency for Trust:
Move from numbers to narrative with clear rationale, audience-specific messaging, and manager talking points. Learn how transparency supports engagement, reduces uncertainty, and guides career decisions.
Connect Policy to Conversation:
Turn structures and guidelines into empathetic, consistent dialogue that reinforces culture and belonging. Gain strategies for managers to communicate compensation decisions with clarity and compassion.
Design Equitable and Competitive Processes:
Apply practical tools to ensure your compensation programs are not just market-aligned, but also fair, motivating, and meaningful for every employee.





  • The Evansville Area Human Resource Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
  • This program is valid for 1 PDC for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification. PDC Information will be provided after attending the meeting and completing the post-meeting survey. 

The Evansville-Area Human Resources Association, Inc is proud to be approved by the HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®) as a provider of recertification credit.

This means that all EHRA courses carry recertification credit for HR professionals holding an aPHR, PHR®, or SPHR®. In addition, EHRA courses also provide recertification credit for those holding a Professional in Human Resources – International (PHRi), Global Professional in Human Resources® (GPHR®).

SPEAKER: Megan Nail & Shawn Norris

As SVP, Total Rewards Practice at NFP, Megan provides expert guidance to clients, helping them to align their organization's goals with effective total rewards and compensation strategies. She specializes in designing market competitive compensation frameworks that support the organization's specific needs and philosophy, ensuring they are practical to implement and use. With nearly 20 years’ experience as a volunteer leader at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), including serving at the highest level of national SHRM volunteer leadership, Megan has invested in building and strengthening the HR community. Megan has her Master of Science in Organizational Communication from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dayton. She also possesses professional certifications including Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) and SHRM-SCP.


Shawn brings nearly 20 years of experience in the corporate benefits industry. Shawn’s primary focus and dedication is to help business owners and HR executives, and multiemployer programs (consortiums, MEWAs, captives) implement employee benefit programs designed to attract and retain employees while assisting them in meeting their current and long-term financial objectives. Shawn is a key leader on the NFP team. He will focus on leading the benefits strategy through his years of benefits technical acumen to create positive outcomes for the University.  Shawn holds an Indiana Life and Health Insurance license, Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative (FINRA Series 6), and Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination (FINRA Series 63) registrations. He also holds his RHU (Registered Health Underwriter) and ChHC (Chartered Healthcare Consultant) designations through the American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, PA. In addition, Shawn is a Certified Consumer Driven Healthcare Specialist. Shawn is a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters and Southwestern Indiana Association of Health Underwriters (SWIAHU), and served as a contributing writer for the Evansville Courier Press and Evansville Business Journal, Past President of Leadership Evansville, a previous honoree of the Evansville Courier and Press Top 20 Under 40 Rising Leaders, and currently serves on the United Healthcare National Advisory Council.

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Cancellation Policy

If you cancel your registration more than 3 days before the event, your registration fee will be credited towards a future event.  If your registration fee is not cancelled more than 3 days before the event, any payments made will be forfeit or if unpaid will show as an 'amount due' on your account. We do not offer cash or credit refunds. 

Group Participation & Photo Release

By taking part in this event you grant the event organizers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the group’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform an event organizer.

Tickets

$20.00 Member Ticket
$25.00 after 7:00 pm April 10

$35.00 Guest Ticket
$40.00 after 7:00 pm April 10

$0.00 Student Ticket

$0.00 Life Ticket

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