We take strategy and goals seriously

System of Record + AI Agents for better strategy execution

Business builders, entrepreneurs, goal achievers

“We don’t do this because we are perfect at strategy execution. We do it because we know strategy execution is worthy of excellence and it’s harder to achieve in a fast-changing world.”

Deidre Paknad

CEO and Co-founder

Deidre Paknad

CEO and Co-founder

Deidre Paknad has founded and led three tech startups, acquired companies and been acquired, and led a high-growth business as an executive at IBM for several years; this affords her a unique perspective on using both speed and scale to drive growth. In her role as CEO at WorkBoard, she works with senior leadership teams at some of the world’s largest companies to clarify, align, and drive strategic priorities with greater speed and agility.

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Deidre is a frequent speaker on outcome mindset and tapping into ambition, including regular speaking engagements at Stanford. Deidre has over a dozen patents and has twice been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation. Deidre has been featured in 4 books, including 2 in the last 12 months, When Women Lead and Valley Girls: Lessons from Female Founders in the Silicon Valley and Beyond. Deidre hosts The OKR Podcast, which focuses on accelerating outcomes and fostering an outcomes culture.

“Our work with AI started with our founding, and the belief it would bridge the gap between managers’ intentions and actions. Now, WorkBoardAI agents make every manager a better leader and that’s a true force multiplier for organizations.”

Daryoush Paknad

CTO and Co-founder

Daryoush Paknad

CTO and Co-founder

Daryoush Paknad co-founded WorkBoard in 2013 and has led its technology roadmap ever since. He's co-founded and led tech teams at several early-stage startups. Earlier in his career, Daryoush played a key role in pivotal technologies as a member of the first four-person Adobe Acrobat team where he helped develop the Portable Document Format (PDF), at Netscape where he led a dev team working on its first generation enterprise server, and at Sun in its early Java initiatives. Daryoush is an avid cyclist who, not surprisingly, is passionate about using data to measure and analyze his results so he can win more and train less. He holds several patents and has a BS in computer science from the University of California.