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
How Workiva performs as a steward of the environment including, energy emissions, waste management, resource depletion and climate change.
Social
How Workiva manages its relationships with employees, suppliers, customers and the community—including employee relations, diversity, health and well-being, privacy and cybersecurity, and impact on communities.
Governance
How Workiva is governed, including executive compensation, board diversity, ethics and compliance, and structure audits.
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
The ESG Task Force reports to 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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Mitz Banarjee, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer
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Darcie Brossart, Vice President, Communications
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Emily Forrester, 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, Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations
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Brandon Ziegler, Chief Legal Officer
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.
Our ESG Data Center
CEO
CFO and Chair of Workiva ESG Task Force, Workiva
President and Chief Operating Officer
Awards and Recognition
More ways to discover sustainability at Workiva.
Blog
It’s Proxy Season, and All Eyes Are on ESG Reporting
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters are getting more face time at annual shareholder meetings. As proxy season rolls on, Workiva CEO Marty Vanderploeg, Senior Director of ESG Mandi McReynolds, and Financial Services Industry Principal Arthy Kumar riff on their perspectives. Watch the video.