Chris Lombardi
About Chris Lombardi
Chris Lombardi is the Workday Cloud Deployment Leader at Alight Solutions in Austin, Texas, with extensive experience in Workday Financials and cloud solutions.
Current Role at Alight Solutions
Chris Lombardi is the Workday Cloud Deployment Leader at Alight Solutions, based in Austin, Texas. In this role, Chris leads a deployment team of over 450 colleagues in North America and has P&L responsibility for more than 200 global support colleagues. Chris oversees the deployment of Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, Adaptive Planning, Data Solutions, Integrations, and Testing Automation Practices in North America.
Previous Positions at Alight Solutions
Chris Lombardi previously held multiple positions at Alight Solutions. Notably, Chris served as Director - Workday Cloud Financials Solutions Leader from 2021 to 2022 in Austin, Texas. Before that, Chris was the Senior Manager - Workday Cloud Financials Solution Architect from 2019 to 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additionally, Chris was Principal Consultant - Business Architect from 2018 to 2019 and held roles in London and the San Francisco Bay Area as Workday Financials Team Lead, EMEA and Workday Financials Senior Consultant.
Early Career
Chris Lombardi began their career at Deloitte as a Senior Audit Staff from 2010 to 2012 in San Jose. Following that, Chris founded sync.am, a company in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they worked from 2012 to 2013. Chris also had a short stint in Corporate Sales at ClearSlide in 2013 and early 2014.
Educational Background
Chris Lombardi studied at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accounting. Additionally, Chris attended Bellarmine College Preparatory for their earlier education.
Major Achievements
In their role at Alight Solutions, Chris Lombardi achieved a record 43.7% margin in Q4 '23 for the Workday Deployment Group, despite lower than expected revenue. Chris also drove initiatives that improved year-over-year margins for the Workday Deployment Group by over 15%. Furthermore, Chris increased employee engagement scores by 10% higher than the company average, with notable improvements in leadership, communication, strategy, and growth.