Blog: From Consultant to Sales Leader: A Career Path More Workday Professionals Should Consider
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, Regional Sales Director at Kainos, to talk about his journey from QA tester to consultant, to product owner, to sales leader. And here’s what stood […]
Blog: What 14 Years in the Workday Ecosystem Teaches You About What Really Matters
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 Beattie, who has worked as a partner consultant, independent contractor, and internal product lead, and his journey highlights why that variety matters. One major takeaway […]
Blog: AI Isn’t Replacing Workday, It’s Changing How We Use It
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 of Workday Gold, Christian Delcid and I talked through a more realistic model. ERP systems are built on three layers: data, business logic, and the […]
Blog: Why Visualizing Workday Solutions Early Changes Everything
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 need, and Workday experts know how to build it. The problem is that those groups don’t always speak the same language. Requirements documents, spreadsheets, and […]
Blog: You Don’t Need to Know Everything to Succeed in Workday
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 this episode of Workday Gold, I sat down with Stephen Timmons, a senior HRIS analyst whose career started in HR operations and evolved into deep […]
Blog: Extend, Agents, Sana, Flowise, Pipedream, and the Future of Workday
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 neatly into the box. In this episode of Workday Gold, I sat down with Rick Leunisse, co-founder of Incubane, to talk about what’s actually changing […]
Blog: Building Better Reporting in Workday: Lessons From the Trenches
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 BI skills into Workday and get the same results. What they quickly discover is that Workday has its own logic, its own rules, and a […]
Blog: From SpaceX to Workday Integrations: Lessons on Growth, Simplicity, and Saying “No”
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 across an entire enterprise, and how integrations quietly hold organizations together. That mindset eventually led him to build Eljun LLC — a managed integration services […]
Blog: Lessons from a Workday Pioneer: Floyd Walterhouse’s Journey from Mainframe to AI
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 — and he’s still shaping how customers succeed today. In our 50th Workday Gold episode, Floyd shared a powerful message: technology only works when people share […]
Blog: Engineering Workday for Scale: Lessons From Coinbase’s Head of HR Tech
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 evolving ecosystem. Praveen began as a Workday integrations consultant, helped build the Workday Extend product at Workday, and then led HR tech teams at Amazon […]