Maria Valero
Maria Valero is the editorial strategist for HR topics on Workday’s thought leadership team. She loves to develop content that is helpful and relevant to people leaders' pain points, opportunities, and industry moments to help create a consistent drumbeat of conversation and connection.
Before joining Workday, Maria led global integrated marketing campaigns, where she discovered that thought leadership was her favorite part of that work.
She holds a bachelor's degree in business marketing from the University of Washington.
Enabling success within a hybrid workforce requires a unified talent management strategy that’s synchronized to employee needs. Learn how HR teams can align focus areas and combat challenges to reap the benefits of a hybrid workforce.
Strategic workforce planning turns uncertainty into opportunity by aligning your talent strategy with evolving business objectives. With a structured framework, companies can anticipate gaps and make data-driven workforce decisions with confidence.
In a world of constantly changing priorities and shifting business demands, it can be dizzying to determine what skills HR professionals need to acquire in order to strategically adapt. Before beginning to help employees, though, they first need to help themselves.
The Financial Times recently recognized Aine Lyons, senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Workday, as one of the Top 20 Legal Intrapreneurs of the Past 20 Years. She credits innovation as the propeller for her current and future legal success.
The future of work is not about mastering a static set of skills, but about cultivating the agility to continuously acquire new ones. Explore the implications of shifting to a skills-based organization, and what parts of your talent strategy will experience the biggest transformations.
How can you navigate AI adoption and usage at a large enterprise? Workday’s chief people officer and senior vice president of technology and architecture share their insights.
Talent management synchronizes planning, recruitment, development, and evaluation to keep teams agile and engaged. Learn the key roles, frameworks, and metrics that power a robust talent lifecycle.
Five generations. One workplace. In today’s evolving workforce, engaging employees across age groups isn’t just possible—it’s essential for lasting performance and culture.
Workday’s Director of Skills-Based Organization Josh Tarr recently hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on how organizations can shift to a skills-based approach. For HR professionals tasked with future-proofing their workforce, the conversation yielded several crucial takeaways.
Hiring is more competitive, more complex, and more consequential in 2025. HR leaders need a clear, flexible, strategic hiring plan to recruit smarter and build a workforce that can stay adaptable.
The future of work is shifting, and AI's impact demands a new mindset: the Chief Work Officer. Discover five critical areas to focus on to lead the human-AI frontier.
With burnout more prevalent than ever for HR professionals, CHROs are often tasked with fixing burnout issues at the source. Finding balance among competing priorities to move beyond stress is key to unlocking success.
Keeping your employees engaged is critical for productivity and growth, but without starting at the source, your goals are unreachable. Combatting declining manager engagement is critical to your employee engagement strategy and bottomline.
Work has changed—and so has what employees expect from it. To keep pace, organizations need performance management strategies that build clarity, unlock growth, and fuel real impact.
Tracking the right HR metrics is key for understanding the impact of your people strategy. As the role of HR grows more strategic, prioritizing the correct metric can be the difference between simply reporting and truly leading.
Heavy workloads and inadequate staffing are just two of the top workplace stressors leading to burnout and high turnover. Learn how you can enable managers to support their teams and improve employee wellbeing.
Driving businesses forward in the modern world of work requires your talent to operate at their full potential. By leaning into the full portfolio of human skills within your workforce, you’ll unlock new levels of growth.
AI is changing how companies find and engage talent—shifting sourcing from a manual, reactive process to a more strategic function. Is your organization ready to embrace stronger, more scalable hiring pipelines?
Human resources certifications help professionals build expertise, gain credibility, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving field. Navigating which ones align to where you want to be is critical for your career goals.
Talent density is becoming a defining factor in how high-performing teams operate and grow. In this article, we explore what it means, why it matters, and how to build it with intention.