The OKR Podcast
by WorkBoard
Latest episode
Making Strategy Visible at Enterprise Scale
Making Strategy Visible at Enterprise Scale
About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 66 episodes
- Making Strategy Visible at Enterprise Scale · 31 min · Episode 68In this episode, Brittney Gorham, Chief Business Performance Officer at Optum Enterprise Imaging, shares how her team made it possible for people across the organization to draw…
- Is Your Strategy Ready for AI? · 34 min · Episode 67This episode of the OKR Podcast was recorded live at Accelerate 2026, WorkBoard’s AI Strategy Execution Summit, where leaders from strategy execution, strategic planning…
- AI Now or Never · 31 min · Episode 66Lisa 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…
- You Can't Waste Time · 40 min · Episode 65Imagine 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…
- Modernizing Strategy Execution at Global Scale · 40 min · Episode 64In 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…
- Speed Wins Races · 46 min · Episode 63In 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…
- Strategy at the Speed of Change · 40 min · Episode 62In 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…
- Success Patterns & Failure Modes · 34 min · Episode 61CEO 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…
- Evolution & Revolution · 30 min · Episode 60Recorded live at WorkBoard’s Accelerate 2025 conference, this episode covers how organizations have matured their approach to OKRs, strategy execution and the connection with…
- CEO Point of View: Strategy Execution · 46 min · Episode 59Sam 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…
- WorkBoard on WorkBoard: Our Operating Rhythm for Strategy Execution · 28 min · Episode 58Deidre 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…
- Purpose & Simplicity · 48 min · Episode 57Harry 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…
- Real X-Functional Alignment · 45 min · Episode 56Jaclyn 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…
- Extreme Clarity · 42 min · Episode 55Bharath 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…
- Why Before How. · 35 min · Episode 54Deidre 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…
- Elevating Performance & People Managers · 56 min · Episode 53Guest 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…
- Operational Excellence for CEOs · 45 min · Episode 52This 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…
- CEO Conversation on AI Opportunities & Friction · 39 min · Episode 51In this episode, 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…
- Aiming High with OKRs at Boeing · 36 min · Episode 50Tiffany 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…
- The Power of Cadence · 25 min · Episode 49Deidre shares her own operating rhythm including defining strategic ambitions, orchestrating execution, setting the pace, and managing the awkward pauses that drive great…
