Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at Workiva
Our commitment to building a better future.
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) goes far beyond Workiva's standards for financial and sustainability reporting. We are building a comprehensive approach focused on delivering business and social value driven by truth, trust, and transparency. We know the world is complex. Doing the right thing shouldn't be.
Environmental
Social
Governance
Workiva is committing to ESG through authentic and purposeful action—supporting our people and customers, protecting the environment, and conducting good business practices.
Our Stakeholders
We value and account for all of our stakeholders in our journey to building a better future.
Our ESG Governance
Topics raised by The ESG Task Force will periodically be reported to the Nominating & Governance Committee of the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities relating to our company’s long-term ESG strategy and goals.
The ESG Task Force will ensure alignment with strategy, goals, regulation, and third-party standards, including Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). Their aim is to build a comprehensive approach to align business value, decisions, and ethics with ESG considerations. Each executive member is accountable for leading an activation work stream of the strategy.
Executive Chair: Jill Klindt, Chief Financial Officer
Task Force Members:
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Darcie Brossart, Vice President, Communications
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Emily Forrester, Senior Vice President, Human Resources
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David Haila, Senior Vice President, Head of Product
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Mandi McReynolds, Senior Director, Environment, Social, and Governance
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Mike Rost, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations
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Brandon Ziegler, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal & Administrative Officer
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Laura Arterburn, Vice President of Accounting
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Marisa Pettorossi, Senior Director of Sourcing and Procurement
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Erik Saito, Senior Vice President & General Manager, EMEA & APAC
Our Materiality Assessment
A materiality matrix is a visual tool used to demonstrate how the priority topics for Workiva map in terms to the business and importance to society. Each topic listed below is considered important to Workiva and will be addressed in our ESG strategy.
Our Strategic Pillars
Our Value Chain
As a cloud-based platform provider, our value chain is simple. It demonstrates the priority issues we identified in our materiality assessment, and where our business practices create value impact to our stakeholders and society in alignment with the UN Sustainability Development Goals.
Workiva is committing to ESG through authentic and purposeful action.
Learn how we're supporting our people and customers, protecting the environment, and conducting good business practices.
Advancing Trust and Belonging
We take pride in building trusting relationships with our employees – holding ourselves accountable to do the right thing, support and celebrate one another, and help each other succeed. Because when our employees can be their authentic, best selves, anything is possible.
Sticking Up for Truth
Truth matters. So when it comes to truthful, honest data, we hold ourselves to a higher standard. Like, really high. We take seriously our job to help our customers uphold those same standards in support of their own impacts.
Powering Transparent Impact
We believe a transparent world is a better world. That means enabling and promoting transparency for our own impact with our employees, customers, and communities – around both the good and the not good enough.
Upholding Strong Governance
We take a simple approach to upholding our core values each and every day. Striving to deliver strong governance for all our stakeholders.
Our ESG Data Center
CFO and Chair of Workiva ESG Task Force, Workiva
President and CEO, Workiva
Awards and Recognition
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