“When I joined, the idea of personalized medicine using genomics to influence drug therapies and medical therapies—I was hoping to see it in my daughter’s lifetime,” Leckman said. “I’m now seeing it in my lifetime. The ability to sequence a cancer tumor and understand whether radiation or therapy is going to be effective for that type of tumor—and, if not, what else is available—is amazing.”
She continued, “When I parallel that to Workday, what’s interesting is that they’re very committed to the education market, and they’re bringing Workday into universities. If you look at millennials and the way they engage with technology, it is much more intuitive, it is much more multifaceted, and it’s much more engagement oriented.”
She added that Workday fits in with her technology lifestyle. “I have my toolset: I have my iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, and Workday,” she said. “It’s all delivered on my phone; it’s all delivered on my iPad. It’s just one more ability to manage my life effectively and efficiently.”
Workday’s focus on understanding how millennials want to interact with technology in their daily lives is important, she added. “I see Workday as having a head start in influencing that generation through their education outreaches, as well as the way they build their software.”