Blog: Workday Admins Need to Think One Level Higher

AI is changing more than individual tasks. It is starting to change entire workflows. In this episode of Workday Gold, Christian Delcid and I talked about what this means for Workday admins, analysts, and consultants. The first wave of AI has been about helping people work faster. Rewrite this email. Summarize this document. Troubleshoot this […]
Blog: The Workday Admin’s Next Skill: Unblocking AI

There is a lot changing in the Workday ecosystem right now. Some of it is happening inside Workday. Some of it is happening outside of Workday. And honestly, it can feel overwhelming. In this episode of Workday Gold, I talked with Christian Delcid about what it looks like to work in a more AI-native organization. […]
Blog: You Get to Choose: Building a Sustainable Workday Career- with Dana Nairn

There is no single path into the Workday ecosystem. Dana Nairn started in HR, moved into payroll and benefits, gained PeopleSoft experience, and eventually worked on a Workday implementation. From there, she kept building. She worked for Workday customers, moved into consulting, and eventually launched Authentik Consulting. Her story is a reminder that careers usually […]
Blog: AI, Hackathons, and the Future of Workday Development with Andrew Cesario

One of the best ways to understand where Workday is headed is to get hands-on with the tools. That was one of my big takeaways from my conversation with Andrew Cesario, founder of a2i, after Workday DevCon 2026. Andrew has a long history in the enterprise systems world. He spent almost 20 years in PeopleSoft, […]
Blog: What I’m Still Processing From Workday DevCon 2026

I spent this week at Workday DevCon 2026, and I’m still processing what I heard. DevCon is not just a smaller version of Workday Rising. Rising covers a much broader functional audience. DevCon is where many of the deeper technical conversations happen, integrations, Extend, Orchestrate, Data Cloud, agents, and now the future of Workday development. […]
Blog: AI in the Workday Ecosystem: Start Small, Think Big, with Alan Shearer

Last week I talked with Alan Shearer, cofounder of SparkMind AI Agency, about his path into entrepreneurship. This week we picked up where we left off and went deep on the one topic we barely scratched: AI in the Workday ecosystem. The conversations Alan and I were having 18 months […]
Blog: Job Aids, Governance, and Getting People to Actually Adopt Workday, with Kendria Countee

When Kendria Countee joined a nonprofit as their Workday product owner, she expected to optimize and modernize. Three months later, she was relaunching the entire system, handling integrations, configurations, governance, and issues with the recruiting module. That experience, she says, taught her more about what Workday success actually requires than anything else could […]
Blog: “Nothing Is Unfigurable”: What a Former Behavioral Health Worker Brings to the Workday Ecosystem

Rebecca Yoder-Shetler was the only staff member on a residential behavioral health unit when two of her teenage clients started heading toward a fight. Everyone else in the room was beginning to get pulled in. A third girl walked up to her in the middle of it all and said: ‘Ms. Becky, I […]
Blog: Prism, Discovery Boards, and the Workday Tools Most People Walk Past, with Dylan Johnson

Dylan Johnson got his first professional Workday job at a regional user group event. He was still an intern, walked into the room, met his future manager, and that conversation changed the direction of his career. Seven years later, he’s a senior reporting analyst at a 25,000-person global clinical research company, doing the […]
Blog: In a Noisy Workday Market, Authenticity Wins

There’s a lot of noise right now in hiring. AI-generated resumes.AI-written job descriptions.AI tools screening candidates. And according to Carla Corley from WD Beacon and Corner Office Consultants, it’s creating frustration on both sides. Recruiters are seeing resumes that look identical. Candidates are trying to “game” ATS systems. Companies are overwhelmed with volume. The result? […]