Blog: Workday Skills Are Bigger Than Workday
One theme keeps coming up in my AI conversations. Workday professionals need to think bigger than Workday. In this week’s episode of Workday Gold, I talked with Andy Turnbull from Wave1. Andy has seen the ecosystem from both sides. He started in Workday consulting, then moved customer-side into People Tech and People Operations leadership. That […]
Blog: Skills, Flex Credits, and the Workday Data We Already Have With Jess Wagner
One of my favorite parts of this conversation with Jess Wagner was how practical it was. We covered two topics that Workday teams should be paying attention to. First, Workday Skills. Jess is in the “turn it on” camp. Not because every organization has it all figured out. But because employee-entered skills can create useful […]
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: Organizing Workday Around How People Actually Work, with Kris Kelpe
One of the most overlooked challenges in Workday is not configuration. It’s operational clarity. In this second conversation with Kris Kelpe on Workday Gold, we explored the hidden operational layer inside Workday and how organizations can dramatically improve adoption through better navigation, report organization, and dashboard design. One of the key ideas we discussed is […]
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: From Crisis to Opportunity: What One Career Journey Teaches Us About Thriving in the AI Era
A lot of people assume entrepreneurship starts with a big idea. In reality, it often starts with a moment you didn’t plan for. In this episode of Workday Gold, I sat down with Alan Shearer, who shared how the 2008 financial crisis forced him to quickly figure out how to build a business. What stood […]