Meet the 2025 Workiva Customer Award Winners

Key takeaways

• The Workiva Customer Awards recognize innovative and results-driven use of the Workiva platform and solutions
• From IPOs to sustainability, award winners faced challenges head-on and used Workiva technologies to reimagine processes and scale solutions
• The 2025 Workiva Customer Awards were presented at the Workiva Amplify conference in Washington, D.C.

Each year, Workiva recognizes breakthroughs in finance, risk, and sustainability from the brightest, most inventive minds in business: Workiva platform users. The 2025 Workiva Customer Awards celebrate the teams who are advancing the industry, pushing our platform to new possibilities, and embracing challenges as launchpads for innovation.

Join us in honoring this year's winners from North America.

Innovation Leadership: Braze

As winner of the Innovation Leadership award, Braze demonstrated exceptional foresight and creativity with integrating innovative technologies into their operations. Senior Director of Internal Audit Mike Callino has played a pivotal role introducing new use cases and constantly pushing the bounds of the technology.

Braze has reduced manual work significantly and radically transformed its risk program. According to Mike, "With connected data, automation, and audit analytics, we now manage everything from SOX testing to ERM dashboards and audit execution in one platform. Continuous monitoring allows us to proactively identify issues, while real-time visibility supports more agile, risk-based audit planning. Workiva has enabled us to deliver smarter, faster insights and operate as a truly modern internal audit function."

The result isn't simply streamlined workflows-it's high-impact business outcomes.

Digital Transformation: Salesforce

Salesforce earned the Digital Transformation award by taking a strategic approach to their tech stack, optimizing for ease of use for end-users and efficient deployment and upkeep for IT. Adil Asar, Senior Director of Product and Engineering, helped lead the charge for Salesforce, reimagining how the controllership can access and manage data seamlessly and securely across its operations.

"Workiva allowed us to drive performance in a constrained environment, create approaches to scaling with data and automation, and helped transform manual or siloed processes into modern, integrated solutions," said Adil.

This award celebrates Salesforce's ability to turn transformation into a competitive advantage, enabling faster time-to-value and lasting organizational change. Salesforce's digital transformation project paves the way for self-service data access, analysis, and reporting, empowering its accounting and finance functions.

Sustainable Impact Leader: McCormick & Company

McCormick & Company stands as a model of sustainable leadership by delivering a compelling, impactful sustainability strategy utilizing the Workiva platform. Their innovative, intelligent use of data to drive impact earned McCormick this year's Sustainable Impact Leader award.

According to Ryan Myers, Director of ESG & SEC Reporting for McCormick, "Over the past several years, McCormick has partnered with Workiva to navigate the unprecedented speed of change within the global ESG reporting environment. During that time, Workiva software and support have adapted to our needs, enhanced their capabilities, and enabled us to evolve quickly and effectively. Throughout this partnership, Workiva has heavily engaged with our reporting team and clearly valued our feedback along the way. As we continue to advance our reporting capabilities under CSRD, CDP, and other frameworks, we deeply value Workiva's innovation, expertise, and commitment to our shared success."

McCormick's proactive embrace of regulatory frameworks highlights their dedication to data-driven, transparent sustainability reporting. Their approach not only strengthens accountability but also advances the company's long-term commitment to environmental and social responsibility. McCormick's story proves that sustainability is not just about compliance-it's about leading with purpose and impact.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Pie Insurance

The Cross-Functional Collaboration award goes to the best use of the Workiva platform across business lines, accessible to all stakeholders, and powered by innovation. This year, nobody did that better than Pie Insurance.

Alex Davis, Deputy CFO at Pie Insurance, has consistently driven adoption and integration of the Workiva platform across organizations. He has carried over a passion for continuous improvement, team empowerment, and data management from his previous tenure at a global insurance firm to his current leadership position at Pie Insurance.

"Among other use cases, our finance and accounting teams leverage the Workiva platform to generate real-time analytics that enhance our decision-making capabilities. Working together and utilizing this information, they are identifying in-period errors and correcting them before financial statements are produced, improving the reliability and credibility of the information we deliver," shared Alex.

By unifying stakeholders and fostering buy-in-even at the CEO level-Alex has transformed how Pie Insurance approaches planning and reporting. Alex also never treats a project as "finished." His forward-looking approach and ongoing engagement make him an extraordinary partner as Workiva develops and refines products and features.

IPO of the Year: Voyager

The IPO of the Year award recognizes the customer who acted with speed and urgency while also maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, attention to detail, and efficiency throughout the process of going public-qualities that Voyager demonstrated in abundance.

Before Voyager's successful IPO in June, a huge hurdle was time-consuming, manual financial reporting. Lance Weber, Chief Accounting Officer of Voyager, noted, "The Workiva platform automated and streamlined a significant portion of our financial reporting process, which was crucial to make the jump from a private to public company."

The partnership between Voyager and Workiva thrived on transparency and trust. Lance and his team's openness through both the exciting and stressful stages strengthened collaboration and laid the foundation for long-term success. Their IPO journey reflects not only a huge financial milestone but also a testament to the power of innovation and collaboration in achieving ambitious goals.

Powering GRC Efficiency: Flowserve

Winner of the Powering GRC Efficiency award, Flowserve Corporation used the Workiva platform to manage controls and audits across business units to proactively reduce risk and create maximum efficiency through automation and consistency-no small feat for a $4.6 billion revenue global manufacturing company and internal audit team of 30 across the United States, Mexico, Hungary, and India.

According to Lindsey Rael, CPA and VP of Internal Audit and Finance Transformation at Flowserve, "My first goal with the Workiva platform was to get out of email! The tool provides global collaboration and visibility to our processes, and now I can get real-time updates and information whenever I need it."

Under Lindsey's leadership, her team is empowered to try new things to find measurable improvements. From tax documentation to digital transformation, Flowserve's journey showcases how innovation can create consistency, mitigate risk, and unlock efficiency at scale. And with plans to increase their use of Workiva AI on the horizon, Flowserve is poised for even greater achievements.

Data-Driven Excellence: Travel + Leisure

Travel + Leisure earned the Data-Driven Excellence award for its use of information gathered through the Workiva platform to make strategic business decisions. Travel + Leisure integrated compliance, SEC, and sustainability reporting using a holistic data set-enabling insights that drive business strategy.

Travel + Leisure has achieved a 30+% reduction in workload for the SOX team-from an estimated 21,000 to 14,000 hours-as well as improved audit productivity and cost savings. And they anticipate moving away from all manual tracking by end of year.

Their team shared: "We identified an opportunity to integrate and automate our various compliance programs alongside our SEC and ESG reporting frameworks to gain additional efficiencies of scale."

These improvements have allowed Travel + Leisure teams to focus on additional value-add opportunities beyond compliance and support the company's strategic goals.

Workiva customers innovate across finance, sustainability, and risk

Stories like these highlight groundbreaking moments, expand boundaries, and reflect the innovative spirit in the office of the CFO and beyond. Congratulations to all of our winners-their successes are a testament to what's possible when you bring data, teams, and processes together in the Workiva platform.

The Workiva Customer Award winners were recognized at the 2025 Amplify conference in Washington, D.C.

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