Introducing Galileo® for Workday

by joshbersin · November 12, 2026

Today, in advance of Workday Rising Barcelona, we introduce Galileo® for Workday, the newest release of our Galileo HR intelligence agent. This is a groundbreaking new version of Galileo, deeply integrated into the Workday platform. This is an expansion of our HR 2030® partnership, bringing Galileo directly to Workday customers in Sana.

This new Galileo Agent turns Workday into the world’s most intelligent HR business partner, personal coach, and management tool. By coupling Galileo’s deep intelligence about HR, jobs, skills, leadership, management, and recruiting, any Workday user (employee, manager, leader, or HR professional) can ask Galileo a question about any employee development, performance, or leadership topic and Galileo’s exertise will offer a solution, provide examples, and help the user benchmark their solution against best-practices.

And there’s more. Since Galileo is trained on 1700+ industry case studies and job, skills, salary, benchmark, and regulatory information from Lightcast, Equilar, SHL, Oyster, Visier, and 30 years of research, Galileo can help managers or employees with hiring, performance management, workforce planning, training, and personal coaching. Galileo, coupled with Workday’s data and your company’s leadership model, becomes your personal management coach.

Over time, as more business and HR agents are released from Workday, these agents can access Galileo’s intelligence as well. Suppose a leader or HR team is planning a growth or M&A strategy. Galileo can assess the skills, jobs, and individual pay of the current and proposed future team and expertly coach the leader on a reorganization, salary adjustments, roles, and restructuring around AI.

Working within Sana (Workday’s AI layer), Galileo can identify an employee’s skills and behavioral strengths and weaknesses by analyzing meetings, goals, performance reviews, and other business information. Galileo can help managers evaluate and write performance plans, help individuals learn new skills, and help any HR team professionalize their recruiting, training, or coaching programs.

And Galileo for Workday, built on the highly optimized Jupiter release of Galileo, has almost no impact on token usage or AI consumption costs. It just “makes Workday and its tools smarter” by leveraging the intelligence and research taxonomies of The Josh Bersin Company.

Human Capital Management platforms like Workday make up one of the most important systems in any company. Today, with Galileo integrated into the Workday experience, your HCM system becomes a strategic platform for growth. Every individual, team, and organizational strategy now has a world-class “consultant” which knows the entire context of your company’s people, processes, and data. It’s an exciting reinvention time for HR systems in general.

We also introduced our plans to offer a comprehensive HR 2030™ training and education curriculum to help HR teams and leaders learn how to build agents, deploy a systemic HR architecture, and understand the process of work and job redesign around AI.

Finally, our new book “Superpowered: How AI Unlocks the Superpower of People, Leadership, and Teams” is now available for pre-order.

This book, filled with more than 100 examples of real-world AI transformation stories, gives you the inspiration, vision, and details to help you optimize your use of tools like Galileo for Workday in your job, company, and career.

Please contact us or Workday for an in-depth demo of Galileo.