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? […]
Blog: What Happens When You Layer Two AI Recruiting Tools on Top of Workday
Last year, John Bruce posted an entry-level Workday role on his team. Within 24 hours, 500 candidates had applied. He had to take the posting down. Zoom out across his company’s entire hiring operation and the numbers get even more striking: 98,000 distinct candidates for 850 open reqs in 2025. More than 100 applicants per […]
Blog: Workday Customers Think Their Challenges Are Unique. The Reality Is They Are Surprisingly Similar.
One of my favorite parts of this conversation with Vipul Gaddamedi was a simple observation: Every company thinks they’re unique. And culturally, they are.But the core Workday challenges? They’re remarkably consistent. Data quality.Manager experience.Governance.Scalability.Ownership. What separates high-performing organizations isn’t features. It’s decision-making. Big Teams vs Small Teams Vipul has worked in companies with 100,000+ […]