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Sam Wilson, CEO of 8x8, discusses strategy execution and why WorkBoard is essential to his success.

Hear AssetMark CEO Lou Maiuri discuss his role as pace setter, setting ambitious goals, and adapting strategic priorities quickly in a hyper dynamic world.

In this episode recorded live at Accelerate 2025, AO Smith CEO Steve Shafer joins Deidre Paknad to discuss how leaders keep strategy moving when markets shift faster than traditional planning cycles.

Bharath Oruganti, EVP at Q2 Inc, has a real drive for leadership excellence. Hear his leadership epiphany and the high functioning operating rhythm that is propelling his organization's success.

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This episode features a fireside chat with Aprimo CEO Erik Huddleston about the importance of a structured operating model for driving strategic execution, recorded live on stage at the 2024 Accelerate Conference.

Deidre Paknad sits down with Tina Murphy, CEO of GHX, to discuss the potential of genAI as a transformative force to accelerate GHX's mission of providing affordable quality healthcare.

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Milan Červenka, Product Line Lead of Strategic Management at MSD, shares what it takes to modernize strategy execution across a 130-year-old, 75,000-person enterprise.

Bryan Hope, Director of Unified Communications & Collaboration at VMware, joins Deidre Paknad to discuss the importance of harmonizing Team and Personal OKRs for greater impact.

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Rory Thompson explains how Pax8 built consistent 10-out-of-10 meetings with OKRs, L10 habits, and WorkBoard to free time and improve execution.

Harry Blease from British telecom giant Virgin Media O2 started with the “why” of OKRs as the foundation for his implementation. He anchored on what leaders hoped to accomplish with OKRs – alignment, accountability, transparency.

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Guest Alexis Kearns, Chief People Officer at GHX, shares her approach to OKRs and performance management, the hard conversations, team OKRs and effective managers, and the CEO-CHRO partnership.

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Jaclyn Pedersen, Director of OKR Strategy and Alignment at GHX, lays out how she's improving alignment and execution in 2025, from strategy execution workshops with cross-functional VPs, to really intentional retrospectives focused on learning and actually making changes, to making accountability easier for everyone.

CEO and Co-founder Deidre Paknad and Sameera Moinpour, Global VP Customer Success & Services, give a debrief from WorkBoard's Fall Executive Advisory Board sessios.

Recorded live at WorkBoard’s Accelerate 2025 conference, this episode covers how organizations have matured their approach to OKRs, strategy execution and the connection with individual performance over the past few years and what's changing next.

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Tiffany Christner, Chief of Staff - Cloud Platform and Engineering at Boeing discusses how WorkBoard, the OKR framework, and consistent operating rituals create a safe space for her organization to collaborate on driving aspirational outcomes.

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Deidre Paknad, CEO of WorkBoard, shares how the company runs its business using its own platform.

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In this episode, Joel and Deidre talk about better alignment between CEOs and CHROs and the power of managers in the middle to unlock strategy achievement.

Deidre shares her thoughts on OKRs to kick off 2025 and get dialed in on the victories and advantages we want to create at our companies this year.

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Deidre shares her own operating rhythm including defining strategic ambitions, orchestrating execution, setting the pace, and managing the awkward pauses that drive great performance.

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In this episode, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad shares what’s changed and the signs that your managers may not be prepared to succeed.

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Sooner Safer Happier author Jonathan Smart joins Deidre to talk new ways of working, minimizing time to learning, and maximizing time to value.

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In this episode, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad and VP of Customer Success Sameera Moinpour discuss their learnings about how successful companies executed their strategies and transformations in 2023, and make predictions about what the journey will look like going forward.

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Former 3M President Steve Shafer discusses the power of his forward-facing management model and the clarity, urgency, and focus it creates in his Automotive & Aerospace Division.

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In this episode, John Glander, Senior VP at JPMorgan Chase, and Duncan Hawksbee, Director of Strategic Execution at Trimble, sit down with WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad for a conversation before a live audience of strategy execution professionals at the Accelerate 2023 conference.

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Patrick shares the keys to the success of the last five Fortune builds, emphasizing the importance of incorporating both lead and lag metrics, along with maintaining alignment with a 52-week cadence to drive accountability.

WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad first discusses 4 common communication fails that undermine strategy operations leaders and executives and the simple word judo moves that work. Spoiler alert: "Do OKRs" is one of the biggest fails!

Summers Hutchings, Director of Product Delivery & Portfolio Management at CarMax, joins host Deidre Paknad to share how CarMax has leveraged OKRs to bring their corporate and product strategies to life.

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WorkBoard CEO and OKR Podcast host Deidre Paknad shares her expertise and advice on this podcast so you can gain the wisdom of hundreds of enterprises that have gone before you to elevate your strategy execution and OKR discipline.

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Tarun Chopra, Vice President of Product Management, Data and AI at IBM, sits down with Deidre to explore the power of OKRs to build strategic clarity and cross-functional alignment in product orgs tasked with continuous innovation.

Brianna Ringen, Director of Performance Management, Global IT & Digital Business Office at National Grid, sits down with Deidre to discuss how a single source of truth on strategy execution ‘make lives easier’.

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Jeff Gothelf, business agility and OKR framework expert, organizational designer, author and speaker, sits down with Deidre to share his unique approach to cultivating a product-focused mindset across large, complex enterprise organizations.

Anthony Coppedge, Principal Agile Digital Sales Global Transformation Lead at IBM, sits down with Deidre to share how he introduced OKRs across Sales and Digital Marketing to ensure the creation of customer value is the focus of every employee in the org.

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Cindy Hoots, CIO at AstraZeneca, sits down with Deidre to share her unique perspective on driving innovation at speed and scale. Cindy shares the importance of operationalizing the strategy and how it helped get everyone aligned and focused on outcomes.

5 ways OKRs go sideways and why. Tried OKRs and they didn’t work or hearing that from a colleague? This episode talks about why OKRs fail, the root issues, and gives a fresh perspective gaining their true value.

WorkBoard CEO and OKR Podcast host Deidre Paknad appears on the McKinsey on Start-ups podcast to discuss how OKRs and a digital operating rhythm provide the transparency and accountability around strategy and execution that companies need.

Vikas Butaney, Chief Product Officer and GM at Cisco shares how Cisco implemented OKRs.

Zendesk CIO Colleen Berube says 'it's just how we run the business' as she shares how OKRs flow into WorkBoardAI Biz Reviews.

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Margo Georgiadis, former president of the Americas at Google for 8 years, leads a master class for executives on how Google uses OKRs.

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Tina Murphy, President of GHX, joins Deidre for a discussion on the leadership lessons of 2021.

Hootsuite CEO Tom Keiser joins Deidre for a CEO to CEO chat on cohesion in chaos.

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3M Automotive & Aerospace Division president Steve Shafer shares his observations on the potency of momentum to accelerate transformation and outcomes.

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In this podcast, they discuss common OKR questions, concerns, learnings and aha's, across many product and engineering organizations.

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Erin Rifkin, General Manager at Microsoft, talks about alignment and measurement muscle, how shared OKRs drive the One Microsoft vision, and why learning is the key to, well, everything.

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Denise Kanfield drives the OKR and results program at Cisco. Before that, she was a business agility and transformation leader at Thomson Reuters for three years.

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Exec coach Jocelyn Kung offers simple steps leaders can take to create trust, healthy conflict and better outcomes.

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Chris Cravens, former CIO of Zynga and Uber as well as former VP, Software Engineering for Splunk shares what he learned about OKRs from Zynga.

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Michael Marcellin, CMO at Juniper Networks, talks about the power of their OKR practice.

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Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, discusses how leaders can turn current events into a catalyst for revisiting and improving the way teams come together, create value, and drive strategic priorities.

Sarah talks about having good alignment conversations, transparency for thousands of people in 16 countries, and accelerating organization impact.

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Ryan Padilla, Head of Global Planning at GHX, discusses the organization's experience with implementing the OKR practice.

Cisco Security Business Chief of Staff, Anna Birch, and Deidre discuss the importance of alignment to drive growth in large enterprise. Anna shares their journey, including the initial leadership alignment breakthrough, and how they’ve operationalized leading for results.

Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo and Deidre discuss the inverse relationship between a company’s growth and its alignment. As a company scales up, alignment on outcomes often goes down — the strategy doesn't trickle through the new layers and most people get further from customer.

In this fun interview Marcin Kleczynski, CEO and founder of Malwarebytes, tells the fun story of growing his company from its start when he was a teenager to $30 million in revenue from a college dorm room to $200 million and 800 people today.

Mark Organ is a visionary who founded both Eloqua and Influitive and is the author of the best-selling book The Messenger is the Message. In this episode, Mark talks very candidly about the challenges Influitive faced in 2017 that led him to adopt OKRs and the WorkBoard platform – they’d hit a growth wall and the great people in the org didn’t have great clarity on how best to contribute.

For executive leaders, OKRs represent a communication opportunity. They can provide direction and motivation, clarity and inspiration – a motivated, inspired organization wants to achieve its best possible impact.

Leaders want to unlock their full organization’s growth potential, leveraging the OKR technique and other cutting-edge strategies. There is a dearth of information on how to do them well and reap their full benefit of OKRs.  That’s where this podcast comes in!

Companies that execute strategy very well do these 4 things as they implement WorkBoardAI. It's the source of higher clarity, purpose and progress.

The recurring theme in my CEO conversations so far this year is SPEED. Some say at the pace of change, some say at the pace of China; few believe they're executing or iterating on strategic ambitions fast enough. The cause is often internal ... and it's addressable.

Strategy execution is hard due to internal confusion, misalignment, and no single source of truth. WorkBoard OKRs create cross-functional alignment, a fast weekly cadence, and a clear link from strategy to team priorities and individual impact.

The traditional operating rhythm fueled by people-intensive meetings and slide decks can no longer meet the needs of today's competitive market. Learn how a Digital Operating Rhythm helps your organization accelerate strategy execution and make the most of the resources that you have.

When employees don’t know the strategic priorities, it’s a measure of waste – lost capacity, lost profitability, and lost discretionary effort. Here’s why and what to do about it.

WorkBoard’s Chief of Staff and Leadership Coach AI agents help managers develop the leadership habits that drive results.

To unlock peak organizational performance, CEOs and CHROs must partner to connect the long-range corporate strategy to team priorities and individual impact.

To truly drive performance, individual goals must evolve in lockstep with changing team and company priorities, ensuring people stay focused on what matters most.

Your strategy should be the golden thread connecting company performance, team priorities, and individual contributions.

Ditch the jargon and spark better team behaviors by reframing how you talk about OKRs. These three simple shifts put purpose first—making it easier for people to lean in, align, and move faster together.

OKRs transform year-end financial goals from distant aspirations into clear weekly priorities by aligning immediate team actions with long-term outcomes.

Real alignment comes from debating options, from making trade offs not piling on. Reset your team’s expectations — it is hard, worthy and job of leaders.

Each is designed to create clarity and accountability in a different time horizon – OKRs provide near term focus that propels organizations to their best long term results.

When employees don’t know the company’s priorities or how their work contributes, you lose not just productivity — but purpose, engagement, and collaboration.

Like a CRM system and your forecast calls, a strategy execution system and review increases the likelihood of achieving your targets, the predictability of your outcomes, and your ability to course correct when things go sideways. It’s the only place where you can see and ensure disparate function progress converge into company outcomes.

What pitfalls do your organization's results management leaders face over the first year of the journey towards peak enterprise performance?

Your management model — and the annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily rituals you put around it — should ensure alignment and accountability for strategic outcomes.

Hesitate to talk about alignment and accountability because it sounds "harsh"? The absence of alignment is work without purpose and the absence of accountability is apathy – ugh! Hear why they're so important and how to frame the subject in this sound bite.

The tried-and-true management models that drove your success for the last two decades may not get you where you want to go in the next 5 years.

Your CEO wants a performance culture, but are your managers prepared to be effective in a super dynamic world? Hear what’s changed and the signs that your managers may not be prepared to succeed.

In order to drive effective strategy execution, the organization's data must be low cost, fully accessible, readily used and frequently discussed - none of which is possible with a slide-based management model.

Organizations can't achieve their strategies without people's engagement and participation, and people can't have a fulfilling work experience if they aren't contributing to the organization's strategy.

Getting everyone aligned on the plan and driving a high degree of accountability in the organization are the most powerful internal growth levers that you have.

Do you have a framework for your teams to achieve their best?

OKRs are a part of the business operating rhythm. Learn how they fit into the rhythm of the business as a key to accelerating strategy achievement.

As you implement OKRs, here are three things to consider as you think about how far and deep in your organization you'll drive alignment, how much transparency you really need, and of course, how fast you need it.

Navigating the shift from slow activity management to fast results management.

Teams that are dialed in to their OKRs on a weekly basis achieve great results in just two quarters.

When we spend our time and apply our effort to the results we aligned on, then we achieve those results.

Get best practices for achieving greater results on your team's OKRs quarter over quarter.

A good OKR process shifts the organization from an output to an Outcome Mindset™.

Video meetings alone really can't drive the business results that we need. To thrive, people's work, results and the data about them need to be asynchronous, autonomous, automated, and accelerated.

By helping you inspire alignment and empower accountability, OKRs help get you what you need as a leader and what your people need to do their best work.

If no one knows what your growth plan is, you aren't going to achieve it fast. Learn how the decay rate of understanding of the company's strategic priorities adversely affects the growth rate.

WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad shares best practices for achieving strategic priorities and driving smarter growth.

Rather than asking the team to "update key results" each week, ask them to calibrate on progress and use that to drive smart decisions about how they spend their time.

Hear the 3 internal causes of growth drag and how to remove them.

Discover WorkBoard’s new KPI module: simple creation, real-time visibility, and smarter performance conversations across every team.

New integrations make it easier than ever to connect your business data directly to the outcomes you’re driving.

This breakthrough in strategy execution ushers in a new era of high focus, efficiency, and agility for large enterprises that must execute well in dynamic markets despite resource constraints.

WorkBoard is now embedded in Webex by Cisco Meetings and Messaging, creating less effort and higher impact for teams and high velocity on bold strategies for organizations.

WorkBoard Business Reviews give leaders instant visibility into plan versus actual, risks, and strategic priorities as work unfolds.

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It's great to know when you don’t have to worry about results. WorkBoard is introducing two new ways for customers to give colleagues transparency and get visibility.

For Developers: Keep impact line of sight as you build better products and align with your best outcomes.

Thousands of engineers use WorkBoard to define and align the key results they drive through their work, much of which is tracked in Jira. With the WorkBoard plug in for Jira, it's easy for teams to keep their big picture impact top of mind as they tackle everyday product decisions.

Learn how OKRs help enterprises adapt to change, create radical clarity on priorities, and drive agile, aligned strategy execution at scale.

WorkBoard's Intelligent Enterprise platform embeds GenAI throughout to simplify strategy alignment and improve strategy execution. Use this eBook to start the conversation with executives and colleagues about the power and conveniences that generative AI and machine learning bring to strategy execution.

Building the strategy is rarely the problem — execution is. In financial institutions, complexity, fragmented systems, and slow operating rhythms often stall progress. This guide shows how WorkBoardAI helps businesses in the financial industry accelerate execution, connect strategy to outcomes, and drive impactful results.

Discover how 200+ organizations across 30 countries approach strategic planning and strategy execution. Apply their lessons to transform your own business processes to align, execute, scale, and empower with greater impact.

AssetMark CEO Lou Maiuri discusses the CEO as pace setter, setting ambitious goals, and adapting strategic priorities quickly in a hyper dynamic world. Hear the role honest conversations have in accelerating results, how Lou uses WorkBoardAI himself, and how AI enables their team to reach higher.

A fireside chat with Stefano Corradino, Head of Execution Governance, Gruppo Sella at Accelerate EU 2025.

Presented by Allison Kinney, Head of Employee Experience, Metropolis at Accelerate 2025

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Presented by Alexis Kearns, Chief People Officer, and Jaclyn Pedersen, Director of OKR Strategy and Alignment, GHX at Accelerate 2025

Presented by Beth Dawson, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Mars at Accelerate 2025

Esi Minta-Jacobs from AssetMark shares Assetmark's story

Presented by Joel Neeb, Chief Transformation and Business Operations Officer, 8x8 at Accelerate 2025

Fireside chat with Stephen Shafer, President and CEO, A.O. Smith at Accelerate 2025

Keynote from the Accelerate 2025 conference, presented by Deidre Paknad, CEO and Co-Founder, WorkBoard

Tina Murphy, CEO of GHX, discusses how she is using AI in WorkBoard to boost her leadership capacity.

Featuring Joel Neeb, Co-Founder, The Insight Age, at Accelerate 2024

Featuring Duncan Hawksbee, Director of Strategic Execution, Trimble, at Accelerate 2024

Presented by Denise Kanfield, Transformation Leader and OKR Guru, Cisco, at Accelerate 2024

Presented by Mary Wheelwright, Senior Director of Business Operations, Trellix, at Accelerate 2024

Presented by Ivy Grant, SVP, Corporate Strategy & Operations, Twilio, at Accelerate 2024

Presented by Charles Jeffries, Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Operations and Jason Roberts, Senior Manager of Order Fulfillment - Global Operations from Lam Research at Accelerate 2024.

Presented by Erik Huddleston, CEO, Aprimo at Accelerate 2024.

Presented by Ana Cervantes, Senior Manager, Strategy Execution, Avery Dennison at Accelerate 2024.

Keynote presentation by Deidre Paknad, CEO & Co-Founder, WorkBoard at Accelerate 2024.

In this presentation from Accelerate EU 2023, Jeff Gothelf, business agility and OKR framework expert, shares his unique approach to cultivating a product-focused mindset across enterprise organizations. Jeff uncovers how agile organizations manage to outcomes - and more importantly, how leaders can empower their people with the right framework for autonomy, discovery, and learning.

In this keynote presentation from the Accelerate 2023 Conference, WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad explores the future of AI in driving faster, more profitable Strategy Execution and how enterprises can their own historical results data to fuel smarter OKRs.

A discussion with Patrick Thompson, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer, Albemarle

Alexandra Malak, Vice-President of HR in charge of People Innovation and Digital Transformation for the Renault Group, shares how OKRs and WorkBoard have become the new digital operating rhythm, accelerating strategies and empowering people to do their best work.

Greg Pryor, SVP, People & Performance Evangelist at Workday, talks about why OKRs are important, what impact they’ve had, how Workday harmonizes individual goals with team OKRs, and the primacy of teams to organization performance.

Kate Villari, Senior Director, Transformation, Strategy & Performance at AstraZeneca explains how all 5,000 IT teams align on outcomes to fuel AstraZeneca's life saving mission. Value drives their IT priorities and everyone is clear on what that value is.

Gee Rittenhouse, CEO, McAfee Enterprise, shares tips for successful strategy execution, and discusses how a digital operating rhythm can create the alignment and momentum needed to more quickly achieve your bold vision and business goals.

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Ensure your AI Agent has access to the right data so it can accelerate decisions, not chaos.​

Track personal milestones in Workday and automatically sync them to WorkBoard key results.

Track personal objectives in WorkBoard and automatically sync them to Workday.

Codify and align team and company strategies, track assumptions and risks, and connect the long-range strategy to this quarter's OKRs.

Run MBRs and QBRs from inside WorkBoardAI and Teams – skip the slide prep!

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Quickly draft execution plans for the team's key results with the WorkBoardAI Co-Author

Accelerate team alignment and eliminate the learning curve with the WorkBoardAI OKR Co-Author

Get the right executive briefing at the right time. Schedule executive summaries to be automatically generated and sent to key stakeholders on a customized schedule.

Get an automatically generated progress summary every Monday so you know where to focus for the week.

Create dynamic scorecards that automatically update based on customizable filter settings.

Quickly create scorecards with KRs from across teams to frame operational conversations and drive focus.

Update key results automatically using data from Monday.com

Update key results automatically using data from Hubspot

Easily build dashboards to quickly understand OKR adoption, alignment, key result distribution and much more in your organization.

Build check-in agendas with OKRs on the agenda in WorkBoard, then sync them to Workday.

Easily update key result data in WorkBoard from PowerBI dashboards using a simple point and click interface.

Update key results automatically as you complete work in Jira. See progress on your team's OKRs without leaving Jira.

See how to automatically update key results from Azure Dev Ops and access WorkBoard data in ADO.

The WorkBoardAI Agent for Copilot enables you to see, update, and incorporate your WorkBoard OKRs from Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps.

Enabling Peak Performance for Every People Leader

See, set and update OKRs, drive execution with business reviews and scorecards, and get instant visibility into risks with the OKR Heatmap

A 10-minute WorkBoard demo

With Cindy Hoots, Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer at AstraZeneca

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A conversation with GHX President & CEO Tina Murphy and WorkBoard CEO Deidre Paknad.

Help your organization adopt an OKR practice and take an active role in improving alignment, value measurement, and results velocity.

Develop domain expertise and leadership skills to establish your organization's Results Management function.