Changemakers, Innovators and Leaders Recognized
at Workiva Amplify
Workiva Inc. (NYSE:WK), today announced the winners of the 2021
Workiva Customer Awards. The awards honor and celebrate customers
who have leveraged the Workiva platform to accelerate
collaboration, transparency and digital transformation across their
organizations. Award recipients were recognized during the annual
Workiva Amplify conference, held virtually September 20-23,
2021.
“Our customers’ success is at the heart of everything we do at
Workiva,” said Yasser Mahmud, SVP and head of marketing at Workiva.
“It is an honor to recognize this year’s winners, forward-thinking
individuals and companies, who are amplifying change, simplifying
complexity, and building the future of finance, accounting, audit,
risk, and compliance.”
2021 Workiva Customer Award
Winners
- Innovator of the Year: Tony Rosa and the Separate
Accounts Reporting team, Talcott Resolution
- Architect of the Year: Riley Drummond and the Financial
Reporting team, Southwest Airlines
- Catalyst of the Year: Trista Muse, Walmart
- Leader of the Year: Junko Swain, Upwork
- Collaboration of the Year: SmileDirectClub and WorkOps
Consulting
- Excellence in Transformation: Shifra Kolsky and Michelle
Green, Discover Financial Services
- Excellence at Scale: Jordan Brackett, Solenis
- Excellence in Connectivity: Nancy Jordan, Cornerstone
Building Brands
- Excellence in Community Building: Jonathan Gregory, The
Hershey Company
More about the 2021 Workiva Customer
Award winners
Innovator of the Year: The Separate Accounts Reporting
team led by Tony Rosa, Talcott Resolution.
Tony and his team “think big” about the Workiva platform and
have been early adopters of new capabilities, which has helped to
guide product roadmaps. Tony has a long history of innovation and
using technology to work smarter that has directly impacted process
improvement across his organization and others.
Architects of the Year: The Financial Reporting team led
by Riley Drummond, Southwest Airlines.
Riley and his team at Southwest Airlines used the Workiva
platform to execute a smooth transition to remote work in response
to the COVID-19 pandemic. They are simplifying complex work
surrounding the ever-evolving Securities and Exchange Commission
reporting processes.
Catalyst of the Year: Trista Muse, Walmart.
Trista has accelerated change across her team with her
ever-expanding vision of what the Workiva platform can help her
achieve. With the goal of using technology to create efficiencies,
Trista shares her personal knowledge of the Workiva platform widely
and places technology at the forefront of transformation.
Leader of the Year: Junko Swain, Upwork.
Junko has led her organization through complex challenges, built
an innovative culture and prioritized technology transformation
alongside investing in talent development. Her inclusive leadership
style and belief that providing unbiased, equal opportunities to
everyone is the key to producing effective future leaders, has
impacted many, far beyond her colleagues and immediate network.
Collaboration of the Year: SmileDirectClub & WorkOps
Consulting.
SmileDirectClub and Workiva partner WorkOps Consulting
transformed Smile DirectClub’s external reporting process. By
embracing Workiva’s “better together” partner philosophy, they
utilized the Workiva platform to build more automated checks,
streamline workflow and enable greater transparency.
Excellence in Transformation: Shifra Kolsky and Michelle
Green, Discover.
The Modernization of Accounting Processes and Systems (“MAPS”)
Program team at Discover has led the digital cloud finance
transformation to replace 35-year-old customized general ledger
technology with cloud applications that are foundational to future
efficiencies. This will standardize organizational processes,
connect data from source systems to financial results, simplify
systems and data architecture, and enable colleagues to adopt new
ways of working.
Excellence at Scale: Jordan Brackett, Solenis.
By thinking bigger about what Solenis needed, Jordan connected
the financial reporting, internal controls management, statutory
and tax reporting teams within the Workiva Platform, and solved
multiple problems at once.
Excellence in Connectivity: Nancy Jordan, Cornerstone
Building Brands.
Nancy sees the big picture of how data fits together, and is
willing to share lessons learned and best practices. When two
company subsidiaries merged earlier this year, Nancy used the
Workiva platform to connect her Sarbanes-Oxley Reporting (SOX) and
audit processes, and make life simpler for everyone.
Excellence in Community Building: Jonathan Gregory, The
Hershey Company.
Jonathan connects others and shares important lessons with peers
in his field. Working with the SEC Professionals Group, Jonathan
has lent his experience to thought leadership conversations,
panels, learning sessions and bylines that have helped others learn
best practices for process improvement.
Read more about the Workiva Customer Award winners and the
Customer Awards program.
About Workiva
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organizations worldwide. Customers trust Workiva’s open,
intelligent and intuitive platform to connect data, documents and
teams. The results: improved efficiency, greater transparency and
less risk. Learn more at workiva.com.
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