Workday Podcasts

How CSA Group Is Enabling Finance Digital Acceleration

CSA Group set out to digitize its manual financials and reporting processes and unlock new levels of productivity. In this episode, Hitesh Laxman, Director, Financial Process Improvement at CSA Group, and Lynn Hurley, Senior Vice President, Finance Consulting at Collaborative Solutions, share learnings from CSA Group’s digital transformation journey. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-how-csa-group-is-enabling-finance-digital-acceleration.html

Webber Wentzel’s CIO on Driving Digital Transformation in South Africa

As a full-service law firm with over 150 years of experience and industry knowledge, Webber Wentzel understands the importance of promoting social justice in South Africa better than most. It operates a wide number of social investment initiatives that promote access to justice, education and access to education and socio-economic development.
In this Workday podcast, we catch up with one of South African customers, Warren Hero, CIO and CDO at Webber Wentzel, taking a closer look at how technology leaders are helping push their organizations through the most challenging of times and what the roadmap looks like in the post-pandemic world.

CIO View: Veolia’s Push Forward with Digital Acceleration

Like many organizations, the world did not stop spinning for waste, water and energy management company Veolia UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast, Stuart Stock, CIO at Veolia UK joined Ollie McKenna CTO, EMEA, Workday to talk about the shift to the cloud, rapid digital acceleration and how machine learning and automation will feature in the post-pandemic world.

A Tech CFO Looks to the Future

The tech, media, and entertainment landscape is full of contrasts when it comes to the effects of pandemic disruption. From massive spikes in demand to months-long shutdowns, from retooled business models to overnight indispensability, the only constant is disparity. And all this adds up to a bevy of everyday effects for the office of the CFO. On this episode, Liz Brittain, CFO of cybersecurity company HackerOne, joins us to talk about the lessons tech CFOs are taking into the future. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-tech-cfo-looks-future.html

What Matters to Retail Frontline Workers

The last time Chris Cameron, retail expert and managing director at Deloitte Consulting, sat down with us to talk about retail talent, it was late 2019 and a very different world. Since then, so much has changed for retail frontline workers, but many things have remained the same. Now he’s back on the podcast to talk about why the “first impression” is more important than ever to the success of retail organizations. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-what-matters-retail-frontline-workers.html

How Retail CFOs Are Innovating in Disruptive Times

Retail has gone through decades worth of changes since the start of the global pandemic, and retail CFOs are moving fast to survive, and in some cases, thrive. KPMG's Shehtaaz Zaman and Workday's Ben Pierce join Jeremiah Barba to talk about it on this episode of the Workday Podcast. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-how-retail-cfos-innovating-disruptive-times.html

How Inclusion Spurs Innovation

In the corporate world, inclusion is about creating a workplace that nurtures a sense of belonging and psychological safety where all people can do their best work. Speaking with Workday's Greg Pryor, Frans Johansson, CEO of The Medici Group and author of "The Medici Effect," shares his insights about why this is so important, and how inclusion leads to better innovation. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-how-inclusion-spurs-innovation.html

Technology Trends And Strategies In Healthcare

Keith Lohkamp, senior director, healthcare industry strategy at Workday, talks with Ray Wang, principal analyst, founder, and chairman at Constellation Research, about technology trends and strategies healthcare organizations are adopting to keep up with industry standards and adapt in the changing world of healthcare: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-technology-trends-strategies-healthcare.html

Why Uncertainty Doesn’t Have to Hurt Employee Engagement

Employee engagement remains a top priority for HR leaders throughout the pandemic, but managing that with a distributed workforce can be challenging. On this Workday Podcast episode, Deep Mahajan, sr. director of people development & culture at Nutanix, shares insight into how her organization is keeping up with employee engagement regardless of where they are. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-why-uncertainty-doesnt-have-to-hurt-employee-engagement.html

Talent Maturity in the Professional Services Industry

As professional & business services firms help their clients rebuild their organizations, they must leverage the talent and skills needed to meet their changing needs. On this Workday Podcast episode, Craig Hines, senior product strategist, professional services at Workday, chats with Jeanne Urich, managing director at Service Performance Insight, about the current talent benchmark in the professional services industry and how firms are preparing for the future. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2021/workday-podcast-talent-maturity-professional-services-industry.html