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HR Training 101, LLC999 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2600
Atlanta, GA 30309
United States
Issue 09 · The school
For the people who run people.
HR Training 101 is an Atlanta-based school for HR professionals preparing for the SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, HRCI PHR and SPHR examinations — and the continuing education that the rest of the career runs on. Every program is written by working HR directors and taught by current and former CHROs, employment lawyers, and labor-relations practitioners.
01·The school
We teach HR the way it’s practiced — not the way it tests.
HR Training 101 was founded in Atlanta in 2018 by two former chief people officers who'd watched too many cert-prep programs treat HR as an HR-bookshelf topic, and not as the operating discipline it actually is. We built the school we wished had existed when we were running the function ourselves.
The curriculum is small on purpose. We re-write each program against the year's regulatory changes and the year's exam-blueprint updates, and we publish only what we'd be willing to send our own teams through. We are a SHRM Recertification Provider and an HRCI Approved Provider; our programs earn continuing-education credit in all U.S. states and at the federal level.
We are practitioners first — current and former CHROs, employment lawyers, total-rewards specialists, and labor-relations directors. We do not employ professional instructors who haven't done the work. And we keep the roster small for the same reason a good university does.
The exam is two hundred multiple-choice questions. The job is the rest of the year. We try to teach as if both matter.
02·Curriculum
Six programs. written each year against the rules & the exam.
- Enroll
HRT-100 → SHRM-CP SHRM-CP Preparation
An eight-week intensive aligned to SHRM's Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge. Built for early-career HR generalists sitting for the SHRM-CP examination.
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HRT-200 → SHRM-SCP SHRM-SCP Preparation
Twelve weeks for senior HR practitioners. Strategy, organizational design, and the SHRM-SCP exam framework taught by faculty who have written it down before.
- Enroll
HRT-300 → PHR HRCI PHR Preparation
Eight weeks aligned to the HRCI PHR Body of Knowledge. Includes practice exams, item analysis, and a final readiness review.
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HRT-400 → SPHR HRCI SPHR Preparation
Twelve weeks for senior HR leaders preparing for the SPHR. Strategic management, workforce planning, and the case-study format the exam now favors.
- Enroll
HRT-500 → SHRM CE Manager Foundations
A six-week program for new front-line managers — and the HR teams that support them. Performance, feedback, documentation, accommodation, and the difficult conversations.
- Enroll
HRT-700 → Custom Custom Corporate Training
Curriculum delivered at your company, scoped against your handbook, your jurisdictions, and the actual conversations your managers have. Engagements scoped to need.
Group rates begin at five seats · Custom curricula by inquiry · Talk to the registrar →
03·Faculty
Four practitioners. Same desk.
Every program is taught by a current or former senior HR practitioner. We do not employ professional cert-prep instructors. Faculty are paid as faculty — not as salespeople — and we keep the roster small because we'd rather decline a cohort than staff one we can't teach well.
- NP 01/04
Naomi T. Powell, SHRM-SCP
Founding principal · Strategy
Atlanta-based former CHRO at two mid-market software companies. Eighteen years inside HR. Teaches strategy because she's tired of cert-prep that pretends HR is a checklist.
- TK 02/04
Tobias Kawasaki, SPHR, J.D.
Faculty · Employment law
Practicing employment lawyer, formerly DOL Wage & Hour. Reads court decisions for fun, then translates them into things a manager can actually use.
- RO 03/04
Rashida Onyeka, GPHR
Faculty · Global & Multi-jurisdictional
Built and ran the global HR function for a 4,000-person engineering firm operating across eleven countries. Quoted in two GPHR study guides.
- DV 04/04
Daniel Pereira-Voss, SHRM-SCP
Faculty · People analytics & comp
Former head of compensation at a Fortune 200 retailer. Believes the spreadsheet is the medium of HR strategy. Teaches accordingly.
04·Field notes
From the office, on the desk, in the binder.
Short pieces from the faculty — new regulation, exam blueprint shifts, the occasional essay. Sent quietly each month to students and friends of the school.
- 2026.04.27 Brief
What the new SHRM-SCP exam blueprint actually changes.
A close read of the 2026 update — the items that were retired, the items that quietly moved up a section, and what to study first.
- 2026.04.04 Update
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, two years in.
A summary of EEOC enforcement patterns, with implications for accommodation policies and training in 2026.
- 2026.03.20 Note
An HR career is mostly the cases you don't take to legal.
A short essay from the founder on the judgment work that no exam can directly test — and how we try to teach for it anyway.
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05·Office
Reach the registrar.
Enrollment opens four weeks before each cohort and closes when the seats are filled. We answer correspondence within one business day. We do not send marketing follow-ups.
999 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2600
Atlanta, GA 30309
United States
By line
- General hello@hrtraining101.com
- Registrar registrar@hrtraining101.com
- Telephone +1 (404) 555-0179
By appointment
Office hours: Monday through Friday, 9 to 6 Eastern. Closed on federal holidays. Initial conversations are scheduled by email and remain without obligation through the first half hour.