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The OKR podcast is a podcast for leaders who want to unlock their full organization's growth potential, leveraging the OKR technique and other cutting-edge strategies.While many recognize the power of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to accelerate outcomes and foster a growth and outcomes culture, there is a dearth of information on how to do them well and reap their full benefit. That’s where this podcast comes in! We’ll help you learn to align and measure results pervasively, manage fast to grow fast, and, most importantly, achieve the powerful objectives you’ve identified. Episodes will feature topics such as: establishing executive OKRs, team alignment, results accountability, data-driven decision making, growth strategy, leading for speed, and other topics. To learn more about OKRs please visit - https://www.workboard.com

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AI Now or Never

2026/02/18

Lisa Om of USDM Life Sciences shares where and how to start on the AI journey – and why you need to start now if you haven't. She talks about the rising importance of clarity, focus, alignment and iteration in the age of AI and why WorkBoardAI helps her achieve it.

You Can't Waste Time

2026/01/14

Imagine everyone rating internal meetings as a 10 out of 10? That's exactly what Pax8 has done using OKRs that clarify direction, the L10 meeting framework to structure and focus discussions, and WorkBoard to eliminate unnecessary meetings and follow through from the important ones. It's simplified work and freed up the Pax8 global workforce; hear Strategic Initiatives Manager Rory Thompson's playbook in this podcast.

Modernizing Strategy Execution at Global Scale

2026/01/07

In this episode, 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. He offers a candid look at the real costs of fragmented OKR practices across the organization, and how the pivotal shift to a single system with WorkBoard is enabling teams to execute the strategy with confidence and consistency. Milan outlines how standardized data, transparent outcomes, and streamlined operating rhythms are strengthening alignment, accelerating decision velocity, and enabling teams across continents to focus on the work that drives impact.

Speed Wins Races

2025/12/16

In this episode, Deidre sits down with AssetMark CEO Lou Maiuri to discuss 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.

Strategy at the Speed of Change

2025/11/17

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. Steve shares how he connects long-range goals to quarterly OKRs and how WorkBoard supports his teams in staying aligned and focused. From adjusting priorities to using real-time execution insights, this conversation offers a practical look at keeping strategy current and actionable.

Success Patterns & Failure Modes

2025/10/28

CEO and Co-founder Deidre Paknad and Sameera Moinpour, Global VP Customer Success & Services, give a debrief from WorkBoard's Fall Executive Advisory Board session with the CEOs of AO Smith and Aprimo, Chief Product Officer of DaVita, Chief Operations Officer of 8x8 and Chief People Officer of Q2 Inc. They asked these execs for their success models, shared the failure patterns and got their advice on how to help more executives succeed at their strategy execution ambitions.

Evolution & Revolution

2025/10/14

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. With startling stats on AI use today and the pace of change, WorkBoard CEO and co-founder Deidre Paknad paints a vivid picture of how AI is radically improving strategy execution and how you can take full advantage of it.

CEO Point of View: Strategy Execution

2025/08/27

Sam Wilson, CEO of 8x8, discusses strategy execution and why WorkBoard is essential to his success. He shares how they thread long range strategy to current quarter strategic priorities and OKRs, to the operational meetings and 1on1s that move people and decisions forward. For Sam, WorkBoard is to strategy+execution what Salesforce is to sales, Workday is to HR, and NetSuite is to finance – the essential system and foundation for driving transformational strategy achievement.

WorkBoard on WorkBoard: Our Operating Rhythm for Strategy Execution

2025/08/11

Deidre Paknad, CEO of WorkBoard, shares how the company runs its business using its own platform. She outlines the full operating rhythm—from long-range strategy and quarterly OKRs to weekly scorecards, leadership ‘deep thinks’, and cross-functional reviews. Hear how AI helps the team move faster, stay aligned, and focus on what matters most.

Purpose & Simplicity

2025/04/25

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 – and then focused on making it very simple for teams to engage and reap the benefits. This powerful combination of purpose and simplicity led to fast wins including transparency on what teams are trying to achieve in the quarter and more honest conversations about challenges. Are you in the UK? Join fellow WorkBoard users in London on May 15th for a networking meetup and happy hour!

Real X-Functional Alignment

2025/04/03

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. She shares her secrets to getting everyone to embrace her OKR practices and being of real value to the CEO. Don't miss this episode - it's overflowing with ways to raise your impact this year!

Extreme Clarity

2025/02/28

Bharath Oruganti, EVP at Q2 Inc, has a real drive for leadership excellence. Changing his management model and cadence, he's eliminated any confusion about the strategic priorities, simplified work for his team, and ensures he spots risks to those priorities in less than a week to maximize his outcomes. Hear his leadership epiphany and the high functioning operating rhythm that is propelling his organization's success.

Why Before How.

2025/01/23

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. They're powerful drivers of peak enterprise performance, but can be a double edged sword if you're over-zealous. She hits all the “versus” topics – strategic change vs BAU, KRs vs KPIs, outcomes vs outputs – suggesting we replace “versus” with “and” to stay true to first principles and continuous improvement rather than grasping for rigid second principles or false perfection over real progress.

Elevating Performance & People Managers

2025/01/08

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. She starts with first principles to authentically elevate performance, with healthy respect for the worthy but difficult work of managing people and teams.

Operational Excellence for CEOs

2024/10/10

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. Read Deidre's companion blog article on driving peak performance with operating rhythm and rigor.

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4.4 out of 5

31 reviews

★★★★★

HannahZaiss 2025/11/18

Great insights!

Always appreciate the content! Extremely helpful insights on how to execute strategy.

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SF123_s 2025/11/18

So insightful!

Love the range of guests from big enterprises.

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Soumeyab 2024/09/28

Good

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Buddyhollywood77 2021/03/31

LOVE! Great Podcast show for businesses!

I really enjoyed listening to this podcast. The episode on Trust and Alignment in the workplace was fantastic, and I wish all workplaces would integra...

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Danman11011 2019/11/27

Promotional Podcast for Work Board?

The podcast seems to be directed at executives that have been trained by Work Board and use the Work Board app. Unfortunately the podcast is not bille...

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From_Fargo 2019/11/19

Pretty good content, poor audio mastering

I’m sure the content is fine, but it’s impossible to listen to - the audio mastering is incredibly bad. It’s as if an aggressive noise suppression sof...

★★★★★

Doug Stein 2019/09/23

Lessons learned

Practical and powerful. Gear to learn from the experts and organizations that are driving adoption at enterprise scale.

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