Carrie Varoquiers
Carrie Varoquiers is the chief impact officer at Workday, where she leads the Workday Foundation and Social Impact team. Key areas of interest and expertise include AI’s impact on jobs, skills, and human connection—creating and supporting solutions that leverage technology to realize an abundant future and collective thriving.
She developed and launched Opportunity Onramps, Workday’s flagship workforce development movement focused on closing the opportunity gap for workers and creating economic mobility for families. Additionally, she developed and launched the Foundation’s Just Transition Fund, investing in organizations that are reskilling job seekers for green jobs in a low-carbon future. She has also spearheaded the Foundation’s focus on supporting older workers through skills development, employer education, and grantmaking to strengthen and multiply in-person human connections to address loneliness, social isolation, distrust, and civic disengagement.
Carrie recently developed and executive produced a feature-length documentary film called “UNTAPPED,” available now on Netflix in the U.S., focused on accelerating the skills-based hiring movement globally.
Carrie holds a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in business administration from Golden Gate University, and a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley. She's currently pursuing a master’s degree in cyberpsychology, researching the impact of AI on human connection. She serves on the board of JVS Bay Area.
Recognizing that AI has the potential to further amplify feelings of loneliness and isolation, the Workday Foundation is proud to welcome the U.S. Chamber of Connection as a new partner in our ongoing efforts to strengthen human connection and increase trust to support flourishing in our communities.
The Workday Foundation is helping to close the skills gap by supporting the global nonprofit Generation, an organization pioneering new training models that connect untapped talent with transformative career opportunities.
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Discover how skills-based hiring unlocks access to a wider range of skilled individuals, helping organizations build more agile and effective workforces. Read about the strategies and benefits of this transition, supported by data showing 86% of leaders are ready for change.
Learn about the Workday Foundation’s Upstream Grant Fund. This fund supports investments in prevention initiatives, including nonprofits that help build unified communities, reduce the severity of disease and pandemics, and drive disaster and resilience response.
To mitigate the threat of climate change globally, we must support science-based climate policies, access to clean energy, and an equitable transition to a net-zero economy. In this article, I discuss solutions for a sustainable future that are priorities for climate-focused business leaders across the globe.
Carrie Varoquiers, our chief philanthropy officer, announces the availability of Workday’s 2021 Global Impact Report and shares key takeaways on our progress and goals, from environmental sustainability to social justice to the growing workforce development movement.
At Workday, our approach towards environmental stewardship continues to focus on reducing our carbon footprint, investing in renewable energy, and working in partnership with our employees and other organizations to support a low-carbon economy. Carrie Varoquiers shares an update on our progress and where we're headed next.
Workday is committed to using 100 percent renewable energy, and our goal is to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2021. Erik Hansen, senior sustainability manager at Workday, shares more in this interview.