Erin Baudo Felter

Vice President, Social Impact and Sustainability

Erin Baudo Felter is the Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability at Okta and is responsible for leveraging Okta’s most important assets – its people, products and corporate resources – to create long-term value for people and the planet. Erin leads Okta for Good, the company’s corporate social impact initiative, as well as the cross-functional effort to build and scale the ESG function at Okta. Her leadership includes Okta’s climate strategy; nonprofit business; strategic philanthropy; employee and community engagement; and emerging human rights efforts.

Erin has worked at the intersection of business and social impact for over 15 years and has held various corporate social impact roles at Zynga, Yahoo and Warner Bros. She holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is personally passionate about equity, economic opportunity and empowering future leaders and serves on the advisory boards for GenesysWorks Bay Area and Connect Humanity. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two kids.

Investing in Ecosystems to Drive Social Good

We’re increasingly engaged in conversations with both nonprofit and tech partners on the importance of collaboration to drive social impact outcomes. Nonprofits are telling us that it’s not enough to offer one-off tech tools or donated software; they need an ecosystem that understands them, funds them and supports them – especially when it comes…

NetHope Summit: What We Learned When Nonprofit and Technology Leaders Converge

Earlier this year, we announced NetHope as our first Okta for Good Fund grantee. A consortium of 50+ leading global nonprofits, NetHope empowers nonprofit leaders to change the world through technology. As a part of our inaugural grant, Okta committed as a founding partner for The Center for the Digital Nonprofit, a new initiative that aims to…

What We’ve Learned in Our First Year of Okta for Good

Okta has always focused on connecting people and technology. We launched Okta for Good last year to expand on this idea – with a mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology and community. We’ve been busy over the last year building a small but powerful team, getting our first programs up and running, stretching our giving…

Opening the Door to Our Communities: Okta for Good’s First Global Tech Week

Community has always been a critical part of Okta: connecting people is at the heart of not only our product, but also our company culture. Last year we formalized our commitment to connecting with our community by taking the 1% Pledge, allocating our time, product, and equity to give back. A few weeks ago, we made good on that pledge by hosting…

Okta for Good: Building Our Social Impact

I recently joined Okta as the Executive Director of Okta for Good, our corporate social impact initiative. In my first few weeks, I met with numerous leaders and employees, many of whom asked the same questions: “What makes a successful social impact program? What is Okta’s unique opportunity to do good? And how do we get there?” Although we are…