Workday Gold

From Teaching Second Grade to Leading Workday: Rebecca Yoder-Shetler's Unlikely Path

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Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Yoder-Shetler did not plan to work in tech. She started as a second-grade teacher, spent years in behavioral health working with at-risk teenagers, built a nonprofit from the ground up in central Kansas, and found her way to Workday only after someone told her she would probably be good at tech. In this episode, she joins Keith to trace the full arc of a career that doesn't follow a straight line and to talk honestly about what each chapter taught her, which she now u...

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