China Miner Gorman is the Chief Operating Officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management.

SHRM’s mission is to serve the needs of human resource (HR) professionals by providing the most current and comprehensive resources, and to advance the profession by promoting HR’s essential, strategic role in business success. Founded in 1948, SHRM represents more than 225,000 individual members in over 125 countries, and has a network of more than 575 affiliated chapters in the Untied States, as well as offices in China and India.

For more than 25 years, China has held strategic leadership roles in the human capital services industry. Her expertise in business strategy, market-share growth and new business development has enabled her to successfully lead organizations through turnarounds and rapid growth cycles, as well as through business slowdowns, with exceptional results.

Prior to joining SHRM, China was president of DBM North America and had overall management responsibility for selling and delivering human capital transition services to DBM clients and customers in the United States and Canada.

Before DBM North America, China served as Chief Operating Officer and then president of Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a global leader in providing career transition, leadership development and career management consulting services. Under China’s leadership, this $250 million division of Adecco became the performance leader in its industry. During her tenure, China established LHH’s first global strategy leading to the expansion of its European operations, and led the establishment of the industry’s first virtual delivery capability. 

China has traveled extensively—throughout the United States and abroad—addressing business, professional and corporate groups on topics related to leadership, successful career management and leading organizations through change. She currently serves on the boards of the Chicago-based Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and Adventure/Unlimited (Denver).

A native Midwesterner, China earned a bachelor’s degree from Principia College in Elsah, Ill. She has completed significant post-graduate work in Organizational Development.