SHRM Labs Workplace Accelerator Cohort Spotlight: Sarah Rodehorst on Centralized Offboarding

May 26, 2026 — In this newly released SHRM Labs feature video, Sarah Rodehorst, CEO and Co-founder of Onwards HR, shares how centralized offboarding helps reduce severance mistakes, minimizes legal risk, and creates a more people-focused exit experience for employees and HR teams alike.

“It takes just one offboarding mistake to create a compliance issue, legal risk, or loss of trust.” - Sarah Rodehorst, CEO and Co-founder of Onwards HR

Offboarding should never be treated as just an administrative process. Like onboarding, it’s a critical moment in the employee experience, and it impacts your people, your brand, and your business.

Onwards HR was purpose-built to help organizations manage employee separations with greater consistency, compliance, and compassion—an approach that recently led to our selection as one of four companies in the SHRM Labs 2026 WorkplaceTech Accelerator cohort.

Watch the video.