Most Workday professionals assume the technical ladder only goes one direction: deeper specialization. But what if it doesn’t? In this episode of Workday Gold, I sat down with Chris Lennon,

One of the things I love most about the Workday ecosystem is that no two careers look the same. In this episode of Workday Gold, I sat down with James

There’s been a lot of noise lately about AI “killing” ERP systems. It makes for a good headline, but it misses what’s actually happening on the ground. In this episode

One of the biggest challenges in Workday Extend projects isn’t configuration, it’s communication. Business leaders often know what they want to achieve, HR and finance teams understand the outcomes they

One of the most common myths in the Workday ecosystem is that great professionals know everything. Every module. Every edge case. Every release note. The reality is very different. In

Workday customers are at an interesting crossroads. On one hand, the platform keeps expanding with powerful standard functionality. On the other, organizations are facing real-world problems that don’t always fit

Workday reporting is one of those areas where the learning curve is steep but incredibly rewarding. Many new report writers assume they can simply transfer their SQL, Excel, or Power

Some Workday careers begin in HR, some begin in finance, and some begin at SpaceX. That’s where Zach Ledford first learned how messy people data can be, how it ripples

When McKee Foods signed its Workday contract in 2006, there was only one live customer. Floyd Walterhouse helped implement Workday Payroll before most people had even heard of it —

I sat down with Praveen Hari, Head of HR Engineering at Coinbase, to talk about where Workday is heading, what leaders should prioritize, and how professionals can thrive in the

Most Workday project failures have very little to do with Workday. They fall apart long before configuration — in planning, accountability, and leadership alignment. In this conversation, longtime Workday leader

Most Workday customers are heading toward a major transition: moving from Workday’s private cloud to a hyperscaler-backed public cloud. And while the change is inevitable, the experience of going through

When Jess Wagner joined Deluxe, she found a Workday environment that looked familiar to many of us: requests coming from every direction, priorities unclear, and the HR and IT teams

In this episode of Workday Gold, I sit down with Kristie Dierig, an HR and technology leader whose story perfectly captures how Workday careers often begin — by accident, but

If you have followed me for a while, you know I love talking about the practical side of Workday and the people side of change. This past month delivered both,

One of the best parts of hosting the Workday Gold podcast is connecting with leaders who are shaping the way we learn, share, and grow in the Workday ecosystem. In

In this episode of the Workday Gold podcast, I talked with Carla Corley—founder of Corner Office Consultants and publisher of the Workday Compensation Guide—about some of the biggest challenges and

One of the most inspiring parts of the Workday ecosystem is how many career paths lead here. In my recent conversation with Cara Carroll, we explored how her journey from

What does it really mean to go independent in the Workday space? For Tony Velasquez—better known as “Mr. Energy”—it started with a family decision. In 2017, he chose flexibility over

What happens when your corporate role suddenly ends? For Alan Raftery, it meant an unexpected door opened into entrepreneurship. After years in FinTech and Workday consulting, he and a colleague

For as long as I can remember, people have asked me about careers. Sometimes it was a colleague at a nonprofit. Other times, it was a consultant just starting out.

In the fast-paced world of Workday support and project management, ideas and requests come from every direction. Some are urgent fixes, others are innovative opportunities—but without a process for sorting,

Is it better to specialize in a single Workday module or cover multiple modules? That’s the age-old question Christian and I tackled in our latest Workday Gold podcast episode. This

Governance in the Workday ecosystem isn’t just for large enterprises with formal steering committees and binders full of policies. Whether you realize it or not, when your organization makes decisions