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The OKR Podcast

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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.
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#69
Thursday · 58 min
From Strategy to Every Seat
In this episode, Susanna Mikaelyan, VP of Talent Management at Pax8, shares how her organization connected strategy to individual performance, from company goals down to every employee’s key results. She walks through the quarterly business rhythm...
#68
October 29 · 31 min
Making Strategy Visible at Enterprise Scale
In 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 the line from their daily work to the company’s strategy. She walks...
#67
October 22 · 33 min
Is Your Strategy Ready for AI?
This episode of the OKR Podcast was recorded live at Accelerate 2026, WorkBoard’s AI Strategy Execution Summit, where leaders from strategy execution, strategic planning, portfolio and program management, HR, and transformation came together to learn...
#66
February 18 · 31 min
AI Now or Never
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...
#65
January 14 · 39 min
You Can't Waste Time
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...
#64
January 7 · 40 min
Modernizing Strategy Execution at Global Scale
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...
#63
Dec 16, 2025 · 45 min
Speed Wins Races
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...
#62
Nov 17, 2025 · 40 min
Strategy at the Speed of Change
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...
#61
Oct 28, 2025 · 34 min
Success Patterns & Failure Modes
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...
#60
Oct 14, 2025 · 30 min
Evolution & Revolution
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....
#59
Aug 27, 2025 · 46 min
CEO Point of View: Strategy Execution
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...
#58
Aug 11, 2025 · 27 min
WorkBoard on WorkBoard: Our Operating Rhythm for Strategy Execution
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...
#57
Apr 25, 2025 · 48 min
Purpose & Simplicity
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...
#56
Apr 3, 2025 · 44 min
Real X-Functional Alignment
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...
#55
Feb 28, 2025 · 42 min
Extreme Clarity
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...
#54
Jan 23, 2025 · 34 min
Why Before How.
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...
#53
Jan 8, 2025 · 56 min
Elevating Performance & People Managers
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...
#52
Oct 10, 2024 · 44 min
Operational Excellence for CEOs
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...
#51
Sep 24, 2024 · 38 min
CEO Conversation on AI Opportunities & Friction
In 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 affordable quality healthcare. They discuss the challenges and opportunities of...
#50
Jun 24, 2024 · 36 min
Aiming High with OKRs at Boeing
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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