Kathy Pham | On how Workday balances high stakes with rapid innovation, and the ambiguity of purpose | Episode #85
About this episode
Lasse Rindom interviews Kathy Pham about the balance between AI innovation and human purpose in the workplace.
In this episode, Lasse Rindom speaks with Kathy Pham, global AI leader at Workday and long-time voice in responsible technology. The conversation moves straight past surface-level “AI is cool” talk and into agency, purpose, governance, and what actually happens when autonomous systems meet real work and real people. 4 sharp conversation topics from the episode Agency vs purpose - how giving tools more autonomy can quietly remove meaning from the very tasks we thought we were optimizing The balance between technology fading into the background and moments where its presence must be explicit. How governance can be an accelerator, and why good rules and architecture do not slow innovation but actually make teams move faster without creating tech and social debt The tension between flexible, composable systems and the need for clear structures so AI can navigate finance, HR, and planning without going off the rails This episode is less about “what AI can do” and more about what we should let it do, and what happens to human purpose when efficiency becomes the default answer. Do you want to know more about Kathy Pham? Kathy Pham is vice president of artificial intelligence at Workday…
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