Blog: The Future of Workday Consulting: Smaller Teams, Smarter Systems, Faster Outcomes
Workday customers want the same thing every software buyer wants today — faster results, lower costs, and less manual effort. But the consulting model many of us grew up with was built for long timelines, large teams, and highly manual configuration work. That reality is changing, and it is changing quickly. In this week’s episode, […]
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 […]
Blog: Project Rescue Lessons from episode with Craig Erhorn: Why Projects Don’t Fail for the Reasons You Think
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 and project rescue specialist Craig Erhorn shared what he’s learned from turning around struggling implementations. The first theme he highlighted was capacity. Vendors often assume […]
Blog: What We Learned Moving to the Public Cloud: A Conversation with Christian Delcid
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 it varies dramatically depending on how prepared you are — not just technically, but organizationally. In a recent episode of Workday Gold, I invited my […]
Blog: From Chaos to Clarity: How Deluxe Built a Sustainable Workday Support Model
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 working in silos. The system worked — barely — but the people behind it were burning out. Instead of adding more hours, Jess added structure. […]
Blog: Integrating People, Process, and Technology – A Conversation with Kristie Dierig
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 never by chance. Kristie spent nearly two decades in IT and HR at a global CPG company before her firm signed a contract for Workday. […]
Blog: HR at the Pivot Point: Keith and Demetrio’s Takeaways from Workday Rising and HR Tech
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, in stereo. Demetrio Wazar-Santana and I compared notes from two big events, Workday Rising and HR Tech, and the themes were clear: AI is everywhere, […]