Workday Gold

Job Aids, Governance, and Getting People to Actually Adopt Workday, with Kendria Countee

Workday Gold

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Send us Fan Mail Kendria Countee didn't start out as a consultant. She started as a Workday customer, walking into an optimization project that turned into a full system relaunch. That experience, including the governance work, change management, integrations, and hard-won lessons, eventually led her to found Abnorma Logic, a firm focused on helping organizations get real value from their Workday investment. In this conversation, Keith and Kendria dig into the challenges most Workday teams fa...

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