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KRISTEN HARTLEY
Senior Principal of Executive Development & Effectiveness at Workday
About Kristen
Kristen Hartley is the Senior Principal of Executive Development & Effectiveness at Workday, where she leads executive development strategy and high-impact leadership programs. She brings over 15 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, change management, and leadership development across major organizations like Workday, Pinterest, and Deloitte. Kristen specializes in building practical, high-touch development experiences that help leaders navigate complex business transformations and solve real-world strategic challenges.
About Workday
Workday operates at the heart of the enterprise—HR, finance, and IT—where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, and trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists with work to agents that are capable of driving measurable outcomes. More than 11,5OO organizations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 5OO, trust Workday to deliver. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
When live business goals become the curriculum
2O October 2.3Opm PT | 4.3Opm CT | 5.3Opm ET
21 October 8.3Oam AEST | 1O.3Oam NZST
How Workday built an award-winning development experience around leading change.
When Workday’s executive team set an ambitious transformation agenda for the organization, it became clear Director-level leaders had a critical role to play. To help Directors shift from functional to enterprise thinking and take greater ownership to lead change, Workday’s Organizational Development team tried something truly innovative. They designed a development experience where Directors used their own strategically-aligned change goals as the focus of development – making leadership growth a natural byproduct of business-critical work.
That approach recently earned the Workday team three Gold awards at the 2O26 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, covering Best Leadership Development Program, Best Use of AI, and Best Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development. The experience was also recognized by The Josh Bersin Company with a 2O26 HR Pacesetter Award.
In this Global Chat we’re sitting down with Kristen Hartley (Senior Principal of Executive Development & Effectiveness at Workday) to look at the strategy and practical design choices behind this approach.
The conversation:
- Recognizing participants as active change agents tackling real organizational goals.
- Involving managers early and throughout the experience to balance individual growth with strategic priorities.
- Mixing scalable tools with non-negotiable, high touch development for hundreds of leaders.
- Agreeing on how to track real impact with stakeholders before the program launched.
Join us for a 3O-minute power briefing packed with practical perspective from the frontline of enterprise change and L&D.
Past episodes.
Season 4 (2O26)
SEAN WESTCOTT
Leadership coach and mentor
GRIFF DAVENPORT, FAIA
Managing Principal Emeritus and Chair of Board of Directors, DLR Group
CAITLIN GLEESON
Global Leadership Development Lead, Canva
NICK PETRIE
Leadership Researcher, Author and Speaker
DANIELLE WILLINGER
Director, L&D Shared Resources, GALLO
Season 3 (2O25)
EHSAN VAGHIFI
CEO, Toku Inc.
CARL SANDERS EDWARDS
Founder and CEO, Adeption
SAM FERNANDO
Learning and Leadership Leader, Aurecon
ISIS FABIAN
Neurodiversity Educator and Advocate
SUZANNE COONAN
Head of Executive Talent & Succession, Salesforce
LAYSHA WARD
Author, Board Member, C-Suite Leader, Speaker
Season 2 (2O24)
CARL SANDERS EDWARDS
Founder and CEO, Adeption
DAVID HYATT
People Strategist, Executive Coach, Facilitator
MICHAEL HENDERSON
Corporate Anthropologist
SOPHIA KHAN
Global Business Transformation Executive
MELISSA CRAWFORD
Futurist, Founder of Tech with Heart
KIM BALLINGER
CEO of AsureQuality
NICOLE KRAUSE
Store Director Development at Target
ANDREW AND SAM FROGGATT
Lead the Way
Season 1 (2O23)
DAN LAKE
Lead Facilitator, Adeption
NICK PETRIE
Leadership Development Consultant, Adeption Partner
JAN RYBECK, MCC
Leadership Development Consultant, Adeption Partner
ERIN SWARTOUT
Perspective from role as Global Head of Talent & DEI, Masco Corporation
CARL SANDERS EDWARDS
Founder and CEO, Adeption
akasha
phD, PCC, Cultivating Leadership
SIMON CURRAN
Co-founder and CEO, Bastion Shine
LAYNE GREER
Director of People Development, Google
MICHAEL CAMPBELL
Director of Learning Experiences, Workday
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Meet the minds behind the conversation.
At the heart of every Adeption Global Chat are dynamic and curious hosts from our own team of experts. We’ve brought together a collective of passionate leaders, coaches, designers and facilitators to guide these conversations. Drawing on their extensive experience in our industry, our hosting team - Mark, Corey, Jamie, Dan, Renee, Tim, and Lettie - doesn't just ask questions; they dig deeper, challenge perspectives, and create a space for authentic dialogue. You can be sure that whoever is hosting, you're in for an engaging session that uncovers fresh insights and inspires new ways of thinking.
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