Sean Murphy

Photograph of speaker Sean Murphy

Director, Walmart.org

Sean Murphy is a Director on the Opportunity team at Walmart.org, where he supports Walmart’s philanthropic efforts in developing the infrastructure needed to empower the development of a skill-based workforce system, which will enable all learning to count. In doing so, his work has led to Walmart investments in efforts such as the U.S. Chambers T3 Network, AACRAO, WGU’s Open Skills Network, among others. Before joining Walmart.org in 2019, Mr. Murphy gained experience in the workforce space as an associate director at a workforce board in Washington state, leading projects that focused on populations such as veterans, justice involved youth, and others, as well as having worked within public policy/community engagement for U.S. Senator Patty Murray, and other congressional and statewide elected leaders in Washington state. He holds an AA from Highline Community College, BA in Government from Eastern Washington University, and an MBA from both Queens University and Cornell University. He now resides in Rogers, Arkansas.