Greg Thomas

Customers and Community

Workday Podcast: Global Media Giant Improves Business Insights

Media-insights company Kantar is connecting the dots among its workforce’s tools, processes, cultures, and skills across 77 countries. Nadia Hutchinson, an HR leader at Kantar, explains how.

Greg Thomas October 27, 2020

Customers and Community

Workday Podcast: Manufacturing Success Starts with Employees

Due to the acceleration of automation, manufacturing organizations are facing rapidly changing skills requirements. Tina Seashore, leader of global rewards at Oshkosh Corp., and Jeff Riccono, customer success lead at Mercer, discuss how digitization is presenting both opportunities and challenges for the manufacturing workforce.

Greg Thomas September 29, 2020

Customers and Community

Workday Podcast: Navigating Change Management in Banking

Your organization can’t transform without change management, but rolling out such an initiative can be overwhelming. Two senior leaders from Huntington National Bank share best practices on how financial organizations can build a business case and framework for change management.

Greg Thomas August 19, 2020

Human Resources Workday News and Culture

How Year Up Is Bridging the Opportunity Gap

Talent in the U.S. is spread evenly, but opportunity is not. Discover how Year Up, a Workday Partner, is closing the opportunity divide by helping young adults gain the skills and job experience they need.

Greg Thomas July 08, 2020

Finance Planning

Workday Podcast: To Deal with Disruption, Businesses Are Changing How They Plan

Rob Hull, founder of Adaptive Insights (now Workday Adaptive Planning), was a recent guest on the Workday Podcast to share his thoughts on how the need for agility is changing the way businesses plan.

Greg Thomas July 01, 2020

Finance Planning

Workday Podcast: Enterprise Agility in the Age of Urgency

Workday Vice Chairman Tom Bogan, who led Adaptive Insights through to its acquisition by Workday, discusses the urgent need for agility in today’s environment and how it impacts an organization’s longevity.

Greg Thomas May 14, 2020

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: The Battle for Retail Talent

Frontline workers are a vital part of retail operations. But competition for retail talent is intense, and it’s even harder to retain employees once they’re on board. In this podcast, Greg Thomas talks with retail expert Chris Cameron about how retailers can attract and retain the best of the best.

Greg Thomas March 04, 2020

Finance Planning

Workday Podcast: How New Technologies Are Improving Business Planning

New technologies and the power of machine learning are disrupting the way businesses plan. Bhaskar Himatsingka, senior vice president of technology at Workday, discusses what it all means for organizations.

Greg Thomas February 26, 2020

Workday News and Culture

Workday at the World Economic Forum: Connecting to a Changing World

Last month a number of Workday executives attended the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. We sat down with them to get their reflections on the event.

Greg Thomas February 21, 2020

Planning

Workday Podcast: Getting in on the Act with Active Planning

Kerman Lau, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Adaptive Insights, discusses active planning: what it is, why it matters, and what successful planning looks like.

Greg Thomas August 19, 2019

Planning

Workday Podcast: Managing Growth and Planning for Change at Ivanti

Mark Chamberlain, vice president of global sales operations at software company Ivanti, shares what he's learned about growing through acquisitions, the importance of planning, and what it's like to spend time on both the finance and sales sides of the house.

Greg Thomas July 27, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: What’s Code for “Values-Run Business” in German? Mittelstand

In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the Mittelstand—midsize, often family-owned companies—make up a large segment of the economy. Klaus Schatz of KPMG shares economic challenges facing the Mittelstand and how companies are adapting.

Greg Thomas July 11, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Cybersecurity: An Inside View with Andreas Tomek of KPMG

An increase in high-profile cyber crime attacks has elevated discussion of cyber crime in the media. Learn about the latest threats and where businesses are on their journey to fight back against these challenges.

Greg Thomas June 26, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Providing Opportunity Onramps Through Upskilling

Learn how upskilling programs can help solve the challenge of finding great talent while creating opportunity onramps for people to move into better jobs.

Greg Thomas May 10, 2019

Customers and Community

Simon Sinek: To Succeed in Business, You Must Understand the Game

Winning and losing is not black and white. When there are known and unknown players and changeable rules the objective is not to win outright—it's to stay flexible and keep playing. Read more on author Simon Sinek's insights.

Greg Thomas April 16, 2019

Finance

Workday Podcast: The Forces Shaping Financial Services

As the pace of change in technology and business continues to increase, the financial services industry must evolve to keep up. Experts from Deloitte discuss the latest technology trends affecting financial services companies and what leaders need to do to stay innovative.

Greg Thomas April 08, 2019

Analytics and Insights

Workday Podcast: How CFOs Can Forge an Analytics-Driven Culture

How can CFOs be catalysts for change? Matt Schwenderman of Deloitte Consulting LLP explains how this starts by creating an analytics-driven culture.

Greg Thomas March 12, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Tapping Human Potential in the Workplace

What's the best way to increase employee engagement and collaboration? Building community can help, though that's easy to say and much harder to do. We delve into this topic with Matthew Hanwell, author and HR leader at a leading Europe-based consumer goods company, Fiskars Group.

Greg Thomas March 11, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Peeling Back the Layers of Diversity and Inclusion

Carin Taylor, chief diversity officer at Workday, and Mike Dillon, chief diversity and inclusion leader at PwC, share their experiences and inspiring insights in a podcast on what diversity and inclusion means to each of them and their organizations.

Greg Thomas March 08, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Uncovering the Keys to Growth for Medium Enterprises

How can medium enterprises lay the foundation for growth while also becoming more efficient and agile? Hint: data is important. Listen to this podcast with Jason Averbook, author, analyst, and CEO and co-founder of Leapgen.

Greg Thomas March 07, 2019