Carina de Vries

Bio Carina de Vries

Carina de Vries is a Microsoft MVP for Teams and Copilot, an IT adoption expert, and the founder of Workspace Heroes. For more than thirteen years, she has helped organizations not only implement technology, but make it understandable, usable, and valuable for the people who work with it every day.

Her career started as an application manager for office automation. That background gave her a broad understanding of the digital workplace: from infrastructure and IT management to end users, work processes, and change readiness. It allows her to quickly identify where organizations get stuck when moving to cloud technology, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot.

Carina is often asked to support complex adoption and migration projects, especially in organizations where technology has already been rolled out, but real usage is still lagging behind. Her belief is clear: IT adoption is much more than a single training session. It is about behavior, work agreements, governance, communication, leadership, and making change easier to understand and act on.

With her approach, she helps organizations move from technology to behavior. One of her guiding principles is her own 3 V’s: Verwonderen, Versimpelen, and Verankeren. This means first understanding what is really happening in the workplace, then making the change smaller and easier to grasp, and finally embedding new behavior into daily work.

Alongside her work as a consultant and speaker, Carina actively shares knowledge through LinkedIn, webinars, podcasts, and community events. She spoke at Microsoft Ignite, where her session on a 90-day plan for Copilot adoption was selected as one of the Top 10 MVP Theater Sessions. She is also a board member of Dutch Women in Tech, where she helps create more visibility, connection, and opportunities for women in the IT industry.

Carina is known for her practical, energetic, and accessible way of explaining technology and change. She makes IT less complicated, brings technology back to everyday work, and focuses on what it should always be about: people, value, and impact.