Julie Jares
Julie Jares is director of thought leadership content at Workday, overseeing the newsroom team.
Julie has more than 25 years of experience as a content strategist, storyteller, and editor. Prior to her role at Workday, she spent 15 years at content marketing agencies, helping clients such as American Honda, Cisco, and VMware solve a wide variety of marketing challenges, from website user experience to demand generation to storytelling. She's also a published travel writer.
Julie holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
In a year when every budget item is under the microscope, sending employees to a conference might feel like a luxury. But Workday Rising in San Francisco isn’t just another industry event—it’s a smart investment in maximizing the full value of your Workday platform.
Agentic AI is changing how decisions happen in healthcare—bringing real-time reasoning to clinical and operational workflows. Learn how leading organizations are moving from experimentation to execution, and where AI agents make the most impact.
Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming business spend management, helping companies make smarter financial decisions and build long-term resilience. Explore how modern business spend management solutions are evolving and the key trends shaping the future of financial strategy.
To thrive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, financial services organizations must harness the power of their data. Join us on Workday Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward for a conversation with Lee Vanderpool, chief accounting officer at General Atlantic. Vanderpool reveals how extracting key insights from data fuels competitive advantage and enables agility in decision-making.
AI is transforming education, driving more personalized learning experiences, data-driven insights, and student engagement. We explore how institutions are adopting AI, its key benefits, and what it means for the future.
From cloud adoption to AI integration, how are CIOs navigating and making decisions during this ever-evolving tech landscape? Rogerio Almeida, Workday group vice president of partner sales, discusses these ideas with seasoned executive Dave Smoley, winner of the Workday Customer Lifetime Achievement Award at our most recent Workday Rising.
We’re delighted to celebrate our higher education and public sector customers who continue to provide targeted and responsive services to their students and communities. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
Wake Forest University’s legacy systems were complex and challenging for everyone who used them. After adopting Workday Student, the university’s CIO Mur Muchane highlights how Wake Forest is evolving and adapting to the expectations of today’s students, faculty, and staff.
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Oliwia Berdak, financial technology research director at Forrester Research. We caught up with Berdak to talk about Forrester’s predictions for 2025 and beyond
Dallas-based broker Integrity maintains a positive employee culture by focusing on its people—and employee-friendly technology is a big component of that. Integrity’s Chief People and Culture Officer Rachelle McReynolds shares insights.
Workday leaders predict the top HR trends for 2025, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, human skills, and upskilling to build a thriving, human-centric workplace.
Washington University’s Jason Burg discusses how the prestigious St. Louis institution empowered its people with data-driven insights, setting the stage for strategic change and transforming the student experience.
How does AI technology help foster a more human-centric future of work? Workday leaders Dave Wachtel and Kathy Pham join Steve Boese and Trish Steed to discuss AI’s impact on HR on a special episode of the HR Happy Hour podcast series, recorded on the Workday Forever Forward bus.
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Circle’s chief people officer about the talent management challenges shaking up the financial services industry.
How can HR leaders ensure their people have the right skills for the future? In this episode, Sharon Wingfelder, CHRO at First American Financial, joined Emma Chalwin, CMO at Workday, to talk trends in HR, getting the most out of AI, and cultivating a positive workplace culture.
To mark the close of Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform, we spoke with its founder and CEO about the impetus and vision behind his company.
To get the best out of resource management, firms need to reimagine how they use technology and empower their teams. Shalu Manan, global talent supply chain leader at Genpact, a professional services firm, shares her approach.
To honor the 2022 International Women’s Day theme, “Break the Bias,” we asked women at Workday how they’re working to achieve a more equitable world. Read about their activism and guidance on caregiving, the gender pay gap, executive leadership, and more.
We spoke to David Somers, Workday’s group general manager of product for the office of the CHRO, and Phil Chambers, general manager for Peakon, to hear about Peakon’s new name, our vision for it, and why listening to your employees has become so critical.
Seven out of 10 human resources (HR) leaders say the function is ready for reinvention, but shifting the way we work isn’t easy. In a conversation with Greg Pryor, executive director at Workday, Amy Wright, managing partner of IBM’s talent and transformation practice, shares illuminating survey results about the pandemic, HR 3.0, and the critical imperatives for HR.