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Chad Kelley

Workday HCM & Recruiting Expert 

Chad Kelley is a Workday consultant with over 10 years of experience supporting implementations, optimizations, AMS, and production support environments. His background includes Talent Acquisition leadership and Workday Recruiting expertise across healthcare, higher education, real estate, and enterprise organizations.

  • 10+ Years Implementing and Supporting Workday

  • Implementer Certifications in Workday HCM, Workday Recruiting, Workday Talent & Workday Project Management

  • Areas of expertise include Health Checks, Optmization, Stream Line Recruiting Process & Improving user experience

Experience

Chad worked with leaders in the Workday Implementation and Production Support companies prior to independtly consulting including Accenture, Alight, Collaborative Solutions and CrossVue. Prior to consulting Chad worked for UPMC and Memorial Hermann as a Talent Acquisition Leader. He was crucial on the Workday Implementation and subsequent optimization projects when he was on the client side and brings that experience to all his clients.

What I do

Recruiting Optimization

  • Reduced duplicate management tickets by 95%

  • Streamlined candidate routing and recruiter workflows

  • Improved onboarding and hire processing

Production Support

  • Led AMS and post-production support teams in consulting and on client side

  • Managed enhancement backlogs and release readiness, prioritized sprints to bring the most impactful changes to production.

  • Delivered tenant health assessments and governance models