Introducing... Joyful Workplaces
How People and Systems Create Energy, Resilience, and Results
A research-informed, human-centered guide to designing workplaces that enable people and deliver results.
Release Date: March 10, 2026
What if joyful workplaces were not built through perks or positivity, but through intentional design?
In a time when burnout and disengagement continue to rise, organizations cannot afford to ignore what truly drives performance. Joyful Workplaces challenges the outdated belief that business results and human well-being must exist in tension.
Drawing on research and nearly twenty years of experience in management consulting, learning, organizational development, and psychology, Yolanda Fraction invites readers to rethink how workplaces are designed.
At its core, this book offers a simple truth: joy is not just an emotion. It is an outcome of a well-designed system.
Joyful Workplaces is for leaders, managers, people professionals, and anyone who wants to create workplaces where people find meaning and organizations deliver results.
Joy is not something we ask people to bring to work. It is something workplaces can embody.
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About the Author, Yolanda Fraction
Yolanda Fraction is an organizational development consultant, researcher, and speaker with a career spanning consulting, nonprofit, government, education, and financial services.
Her layered and rich career makes this book truly unique. She began her professional career as a classroom teacher and later moved into management consulting and executive coaching. Her experiences continue to shape her people‑first approach.
She is the creator of Teamwork Sandbox, a brand dedicated to building better workplaces and effective leaders, and a doctoral student in industrial‑organizational psychology.
The daughter of an artist and an entrepreneur, Yolanda believes that work should be purposeful and energizing. She blends research with lived experience to make workplaces more human, joyful, and effective.
© 2026 Yolanda Fraction