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Workday Gold

Keith Bitikofer

Join Keith Bitikofer in this insightful podcast as he shares his vast experience in IT, operations, and Workday solutions. With over 30 years of expertise across industries such as Higher Education, Manufacturing, Consulting, and Nonprofits, Keith dives deep into the challenges and opportunities that come with managing and supporting Workday systems. As a former project manager and director at a large global non-profit, Keith led the successful rollout and supported Workday’s HCM, Financials,

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28:28

#69: From 4 Hours to Fully Automated: Real...

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2026/04/17

Send us Fan Mail Workday Orchestrate is quickly becoming one of the most important tools in the Workday ecosystem, but many teams haven’t fully explored what it can do. In this episode, Keith sits down with Ethan Jones to walk through real-world use cases, including how his team automated a process that used to take four hours every week. They also dive into practical lessons learned, from using WQL to improve data handling, to debugging strategies, and how AI tools like the Deployment Agent ...

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39:06

What Your Employees Aren't Telling You: A Deep Dive...

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2026/04/10

Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Yoder-Shetler came from behavioral health and education before becoming an HRIS program manager for a large Workday customer. That background, curious about why people do what they do and what they need to engage, made her a natural champion for Workday Peakon, the employee engagement survey module. They have been live on Peakon for three years, and Rebecca calls it her favorite Workday module by a wide margin. In this episode, Keith and Rebecca walk through how Peako...

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35:05

Job Aids, Governance, and Getting People to Actually...

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2026/04/03

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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33:24

From Teaching Second Grade to Leading Workday:...

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2026/03/27

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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36:52

Prism, Discovery Boards, and the Workday Tools Most...

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2026/03/20

Send us Fan Mail Dylan Johnson started his Workday journey as a college intern and landed his first professional job by walking into a regional user group event and meeting his future manager. Seven years later, he is a senior reporting analyst at a 25,000-person global company, a Carolinas RUG board member, and one of the more practical voices on Workday reporting and career development in the ecosystem. In this episode, he joins Keith for an honest conversation about what he has learned, wh...

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27:16

Standing Out in a Noisy Workday Job Market, with...

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2026/03/13

Send a text The Workday job market is still strong — but it’s louder than ever. In this episode, Keith sits down with Carla Corley of Corner Office Consultants and WD Beacon to talk about what’s really happening in Workday hiring. From AI-generated resumes to certification overload, they unpack why so many professionals are struggling to stand out. If you’re navigating your Workday career, hiring talent, or trying to differentiate yourself in a crowded ecosystem, this conversation will give y...

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33:06

What Workday Recruiting Looks Like When You Add...

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2026/03/06

Send a text John Bruce has spent over a decade in the Workday ecosystem, most recently as VP of People Innovation and Technology at One Digital. In 2025, they fielded 98,000 job applications across 850 open reqs. That volume, combined with the administrative burden of interview scheduling, pushed him to build a recruiting stack on top of Workday using both Paradox and HiredScore. In this episode, he gives Keith an unfiltered look at how both tools work, why he chose them, and what he did not ...

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23:58

Workday Success Isn’t About Features, It’s About...

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2026/02/27

Send a text Every organization believes its Workday challenges are unique. But the truth is, the core problems are remarkably consistent. In this episode, I sit down with Vipul Gaddamedi to discuss governance, operating models across company sizes, and how to build a practical AI roadmap that reduces friction rather than chasing hype. We discuss real use cases, including interview-scheduling agents, HR service-delivery modernization with Workday Help and Extend, and how centralizing knowledge...

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39:09

The Career Path Nobody Talks About, with Chris Lennon

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2026/02/20

Send a text Most Workday professionals assume the technical career path only goes one direction — deeper specialization. But what if your next step isn’t more technical… it’s more relational? In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer sits down with Chris Lennon, Regional Sales Director at Kainos, to explore his journey from QA tester to consultant, product owner, and ultimately sales leader. They discuss relational selling, the difference between services and product thinking, Built on...

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37:29

A 14-Year Workday Career Across Partners, Customers,...

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2026/02/13

Send a text What does a long, successful Workday career really look like? In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer talks with James Beattie about a 14-year journey across partners, customers, independent consulting, and large enterprises, including time on Amazon’s Workday program. They explore what AMS work teaches you that implementations don’t, why humility and prototyping matter even for senior experts, how scale exposes ERP limitations, and why fear of releases keeps many custome...

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32:58

Will AI Replace ERP Systems? Listen in on my...

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2026/02/06

Send us a text AI models are advancing fast, and it’s an opportunity for Workday professionals to rethink how systems, roles, and skills will evolve. In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer and Christian Delcid break down what’s actually changing, and what isn’t, when it comes to ERP systems and AI. They explore why Workday’s core value goes beyond the UI, how agents are beginning to replace entire workflows, and why pricing models like Flex Credits matter more than many teams realiz...

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26:16

The Hidden Career Paths Inside the Workday Ecosystem...

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2026/01/30

Send us a text Feeling stuck in your Workday career? In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer is joined by Christian Delcid to explore why that feeling is often more about limited visibility than limited opportunity. They unpack the many paths available across the Workday ecosystem, including customers, partners, Workday roles, consulting, sales, and emerging Built on Workday opportunities. The conversation also dives into self-awareness, personality assessments, burnout, life stages,...

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35:31

Turning Workday Ideas Into Visual Reality with Katie...

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2026/01/23

Send us a text How do you explain a Workday solution to someone who can’t visualize what a new Extend App will actually look like? As a technical designer, it may be clear in your head, but for users and business leaders, it can feel abstract and hard to grasp. In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer sits down with Katie Holden, former Workday platform leader and co-founder of Slider.dev, to explore how visualization and AI are transforming the way teams communicate requirements and ...

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25:20

From HR Assistant to Senior HRIS Analyst, with...

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2026/01/16

Send us a text Most Workday professionals don’t plan their careers; they grow into them. In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer sits down with senior HRIS analyst Stephen Timmons to talk about his journey from HR operations to owning Workday as a solo practitioner. They discuss the realities of being the only Workday person, the pressure to have instant answers, why testing and documentation matter, how community plays a critical role, and how AI is shifting Workday roles from task ...

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34:36

Extend, Agents, Sana, Flowise, and Pipedream: with...

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2026/01/09

Send us a text Workday Extend and AI agents are no longer theoretical, they’re already reshaping how customers solve real problems. In this episode of Workday Gold, Keith Bitikofer sits down with Rick Leunisse, co-founder of Incubane, to explore what’s actually working today. They discuss why deep Workday knowledge matters more than ever, how Extend has matured into a strategic capability, and how Workday’s acquisitions, such as Sana, Flowise, and Pipedream, fit together. If you’re trying to ...

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34:39

Architecture Over Heroics: Rethinking Workday Support...

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2025/12/19

Send us a text Careers in the Workday ecosystem aren’t linear, and that’s often where the real growth happens. In this episode, Keith Bitikofer is joined by Michael Domingo, Senior Manager of HR Technology Engineering at CVS Health, to explore the journey from ticket-solver to architect and the changes that occur when Workday operates at a massive scale. They discuss sustainable support models, the power of community learning, embedded guidance in Workday, and why “privacy debt” is emerging a...

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33:08

The AI Agent Layer for Workday: What It Means for...

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2025/12/12

Send us a text Workday customers are demanding faster implementations, smaller consulting and customer support teams, less manual effort, and AI agents may finally make that possible. In this episode, I talk with PeopleFlow.io founder Harish Vashisht about how AI tools are automating release testing, monitoring integrations, preserving institutional knowledge, and enabling consultants and support teams to do more with less. His team is building an “agent layer” for Workday that proactiv...

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44:18

Building Better Reporting in Workday: Lessons From...

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2025/12/05

Send us a text Writing reports in Workday can be frustrating, time-consuming, and counterintuitive, especially for people coming from SQL, Power BI, or other reporting tools. In this episode, Keith and Christian break down why Workday reporting feels different, what new report writers should focus on, and how to accelerate learning by leveraging standard reports, governance frameworks, and smart defaults. Along the way, they share stories from projects where reporting went right and where it ...

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28:18

From SpaceX to Building a Boutique Workday Business,...

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2025/11/21

Send us a text What does Workday look like through the eyes of a former SpaceX integrations expert? In this episode, I sit down with Zach Ledford, co-founder of Eljun LLC, to explore how integrations quietly power the success of every Workday implementation — and why companies move toward a best-in-class tech ecosystem. Zach shares what he learned building a managed integration service, productizing solutions, and supporting organizations that need Workday to connect cleanly with dozens of do...

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29:38

Lessons from a Workday Pioneer: Floyd Walterhouse’s...

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2025/11/14

Send us a text Floyd Walterhouse has been shaping the Workday story since before most of us joined the conversation. As one of Workday’s earliest customers and design partners for U.S. Payroll, his insights are both historical and refreshingly practical. In this 50th episode, Floyd joins Keith Bitikofer to share lessons from nearly five decades in IT — from mainframe coding to testing the Workday AI payroll agent. They discuss how collaboration, simplicity, and continuous learning drive long-...

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