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Work Positive

Work Positive

By: Dr. Joey Faucette
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Work Positive podcast guests share strategies and tactics, real-life stories, and case studies that focus on how you can attract top talent and reduce team turnover. The host of the Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, is an executive coach, culture architect, and best-selling author. His latest book, Work Positive in a Negative World: Team Edition, is the manifesto for developing your positive work culture.
Listen to the Work Positive podcast if you:

want to attract top talent

desire to reduce team turnover

invest in leadership training

are performance driven, and;

care about your team members.Copyright 2022 Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, All Rights Reserved. Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Lead Change Without Losing Your People | Sharon McLaughlin

    Lead Change Without Losing Your People | Sharon McLaughlin
    Jun 21 2026

    Episode 192 | Lead Change Without Losing Your People | Sharon McLaughlin

    Episode summary

    Disruption is the norm now, and wave after wave of it leaves people leaders worn down in body, mind, and heart. Sharon McLaughlin shows you how to guide change so it transforms your culture rather than batters your people. You care for yourself first, then you care for the team you lead, and you trade more strategy for the real conversations that keep your culture people-first.

    Listen as Sharon McLaughlin explores:

    ☀️ How to guide change without losing yourself or the people you lead

    ☀️ Why change fatigue and change saturation drain organizations today

    ☀️ How to care for yourself first as a people leader, then care for your team

    ☀️ What the silence in a room tells you about your culture

    ☀️ How real conversations, rather than more strategy, keep your culture people-first

    Key Insight

    “That’s the real measure of culture: what’s not being said, or what’s being avoided.”

    Sharon McLaughlin

    Sharon’s Do One Thing (DOT)

    “Get out of the strategy and have some real conversations about how the change is being received or perceived, and how the team is managing it. Sometimes leaders avoid those conversations because they don’t want to hear the answer. They just want it implemented. They’ve invested a lot of money. So those conversations you’re avoiding, have them. What you hear may surprise you, and your team will appreciate it.”

    Sharon McLaughlin

    About Sharon McLaughlin

    Sharon McLaughlin is an executive coach and change leadership advisor with more than 30 years of experience helping people and organizations navigate complex transitions. She is the founder of Change Clarity, where she helps leaders guide change without losing themselves or their people in the process. She serves as president of the Ontario chapter of the Change Management Association and belongs to a global community of change management professionals.

    Connect with Sharon

    Website: sharonmclaughlin.ca

    LinkedIn: Sharon McLaughlin on LinkedIn

    Connect with Dr. Joey

    Visit workpositive.today, subscribe to the free Work Positive Newsletter, and browse every episode at the Work Positive Podcast archive.

    • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/

    #WorkPositive #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #ChangeManagement #ChangeFatigue #Leadership #PeopleFirst #HR

    Enjoying the show? Please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts . It helps more people leaders find the Work Positive Podcast and grow culture, grow people and grow profits

    Know a leader who would be a great guest? Send your recommendation to analiza@getpositive.today.
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    31 mins
  • Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot

    Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot
    Jun 14 2026

    Episode 191 | Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot

    Episode Overview

    “Take the values off the wall. Paint over them.” Stephen de Groot once showed up to a consulting engagement with a roller and a paint can, and nearly got fired for it. His point lands hard and simple: your values stay just words until your actions give them meaning.

    As you live the values you say you believe, your culture transforms from a poster in the lobby into a place where your people feel safe, seen, and ready to grow.

    Listen as Stephen explores with Dr. Joey:

    ☀️ Why values painted on a wall mean nothing until your daily actions give them meaning.

    ☀️ The three great states that help your people feel safe and capable.

    ☀️ What “nuked” change is and why you are created for it.

    ☀️ How hiring for values and filtering for competencies shrinks most discipline challenges.

    ☀️ The one thing you can do today to grow your own resilience by knowing your values.

    Key Insight

    “Ensure that your people feel like they matter, and what they do matters, and half your problems will go away.”

    Stephen de Groot

    Your DOT (Do One Thing)

    Know yourself. Know your own values. As Stephen says, the one thing you can do is “know ourselves, know our own values,” because understanding what matters to you grows your resilience and points you toward the environments that align with your values, where fulfillment and meaning grow.

    Connect with Stephen de Groot

    Get a copy of his books:

    • Getting To Better: A New Model for Elevating Human Potential at Work and in Life
    • Responsive Leadership in Social Services: A Practical Approach for Optimizing Engagement and Performance

    Brivia Consulting: https://www.briviaconsulting.com/

    Getting to Better (free tools + overview): https://gettingtobetter.com/

    LinkedIn: Stephen de Groot

    Connect with Dr. Joey

    Visit workpositive.today, subscribe to the free Work Positive Newsletter, and browse every episode at the Work Positive Podcast archive.

    • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/

    #WorkPositive #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #Leadership #HumanPotential #EmployeeEngagement #CompanyValues

    Enjoying the show? Please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts . It helps more people leaders find the Work Positive Podcast and grow culture, grow people and grow profits
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    36 mins
  • Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere

    Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere
    Jun 7 2026
    Episode 190 | Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere How do you transform a work culture where people don't just survive a toxic workplace but thrive in a space where they feel seen, heard, valued, and have skin in the game? How do you move from overfunctioning as a leader to offloading responsibility and allowing autonomy and agency in your team? How do you make leadership accessible and practical for anyone looking to elevate their culture intentionally? Transform your approach to servant leadership and allyship on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Dr. Domonique Revere. Dr. Dom is a leadership strategist, work culture expert, and Chief Culture Architect of HR Remedy Consulting. She coaches at the intersection of leadership development, organizational management, and culture elevation, offering clear practical frameworks for leading with integrity, presence, and impact. Listen as Dr. Dom explores: ☀️ Her origin story growing up in East Cleveland in a single parent household, with a community who saw potential in her and propelled her toward success without expecting gain ☀️ Why she wanted to create spaces where people felt seen, heard, valued, could thrive rather than just survive, and be creative and innovative ☀️ How servant leadership and allyship mean helping others move in the same direction, honoring different perspectives and experiences, without needing anything in return ☀️ Why leaders need to stop overfunctioning, offload responsibility, and allow autonomy and agency to grow in their teams so they can take vacations without worry ☀️ Her new book "Language of the Land" which makes leadership accessible and practical, providing an A to Z guide for anyone looking to elevate their culture intentionally Dr. Dom transforms how leaders think about culture by proving that as you become genuinely curious about the people around you, asking more questions to understand why they operate, emote, and carry what they carry, you learn about your own blind spots and create a culture where people thrive individually and collectively. 🔑 Key Insight: "Servant leadership and allyship - when we think about allyship, it's not necessarily that we're all moving in the same direction. We want to make sure that everyone has a seat at the table, we understand perspective, we really are honoring experiences. But these are also folks that don't have anything to gain. Them being at the table and really their gaining is the essence of understanding and valuing different perspectives, different lifestyles, different experiences, different truths. When we are sitting in that space and knowing that everybody deserves peace, deserves protection, deserves safety, we all win." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Ask more questions. Become genuinely curious about the people who are around you - why they operate the way that they do, why they emote the way that they do, why they carry the things that they carry. You'll learn not only a lot about them, but you'll learn a lot about yourself as well. You'll learn where your blind spots are, where the privilege is, where maybe you can lean in and do things a little bit differently. If you take nothing else away from the conversation, slow down and become genuinely curious about the people that you're choosing to do life and choosing to do work with. It's going to make us all just better humans individually and collectively. Connect with Dr. Domonique Revere: Visit HRemedyConsulting.com for leadership strategy, work culture expertise, and coaching services Get "Language of the Land: The A to Z Guide for Elevating Culture" on Amazon Connect with Dr. Dom on LinkedIn Follow Dr. Dom Revere on Instagram and Twitter Discover how to make leadership accessible and practical for transforming cultureLearn the key to psychological safety, belonging, and inclusion in the workplace #ServantLeadership #Allyship #CultureTransformation #LanguageOfTheLand #GenuineCuriosity #StopOverfunctioning #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow people and profits with a positive work culture! 🔗 Stay connected with Dr. Joey Faucette: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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    36 mins
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