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

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

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

       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

     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,

     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

     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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

One of the most common things I hear from Workday professionals is, “I feel stuck.” Stuck in a role. Stuck in a specialty. Stuck in one corner of the ecosystem

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

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

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

Careers in the Workday ecosystem rarely follow a straight line. In my recent conversation with Michael Domingo, Senior Manager of HR Technology Engineering at CVS Health, we talked openly about

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

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

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

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 —

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

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