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 who 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, a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley, and is currently pursuing a masters of science in cyberpsychology - where she is researching the impact of AI on human connection. She serves on the boards of JVS Bay Area. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrievaroquiers/