Dr. Christie McMullen

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About

Dr. Christie McMullen is a leadership expert, best-selling author, and host of the Productive Joy podcast. She helps organizations create cultures where people thrive through her work on Learning Can Stick and Make Work Fun So People Don’t Quit. Founder of AIM...Analyze, Improve, Move, she equips leaders to build engaging, brain-friendly workplaces where growth, performance, and joy go hand in hand.

Services

  • How to Throw a Failure Party Interactive Workshop

    What if the thing your team hides most is actually the key to its growth? How to Throw a Failure Party is an interactive, 60-minute workshop that helps teams normalize mistakes, reduce fear, and build real psychological safety. Instead of treating failure as something to avoid or hide, this experience reframes missteps as learning opportunities that drive trust, resilience, and smarter decision-making. Through guided reflection, small-group discussion, and lighthearted celebration rituals, participants share real professional failures in a structured, supportive environment. The focus shifts from embarrassment to insight, helping teams practice responding to setbacks with curiosity rather than judgment. Participants leave with a healthier mindset around mistakes, practical language for discussing failure constructively, stronger trust within their team, and strategies leaders can use to model psychological safety. When people stop hiding their failures, learning and progress accelerate.

  • Create Productive Joy Signature Workshop

    Create Productive Joy is a 60-minute interactive workshop that explores how fulfillment and performance can reinforce each other instead of compete. Based on Dr. Christie McMullen’s Productive Joy philosophy, this session reframes joy at work as a practical strategy for engagement, sustainability, and impact — not a surface-level perk. Participants learn how to identify the hidden friction points that drain energy and morale and how small, intentional changes can make work feel more meaningful and motivating. Using the AIM framework — Analyze, Improve, Move — the workshop focuses on honest reflection and realistic action rather than forced fun or temporary morale boosts. Participants leave with clearer language around engagement, fresh perspective on what drives productive joy, and ideas they can immediately apply in their teams, ERGs, and day-to-day work. An optional add-on is available to include Dr. Christie McMullen’s workbook, Make Work Fun So People Don’t Quit: How to Hit Your Target in Business and Life, for continued reflection and application beyond the session.

  • Leveraging Your Superpowers Workshop

    Leverage Your Superpower is an interactive workshop that helps participants identify and intentionally use the strengths they already bring to the table. Instead of trying to be more “well-rounded” or like someone else, this session focuses on recognizing natural strengths and understanding how they contribute to stronger teams and healthier cultures. Through guided reflection and engaging activities, participants explore how different strengths show up at work and why diversity of thought matters. The emphasis is on practical self-awareness, not labels or personality tests. Participants gain clarity around what they do best, release comparison, and learn how to apply their strengths more confidently in their roles and communities. Participants leave with a clear understanding of their personal “superpower,” language to describe the value they bring, and simple ways to show up more intentionally and effectively. When people own who they are, they don’t just perform better — they help create environments where others can thrive. For groups who want to extend the learning, an optional add-on is available to include Dr. Christie McMullen’s workbook, Make Work Fun So People Don’t Quit: How to Hit Your Target in Business and Life, which provides guided reflection and exercises to help participants continue applying their strengths beyond the workshop.

  • AIM for Impact: Group Coaching with Dr. Christie McMullen | Includes up to 10 Participants

    AIM for Impact is an eight-week group coaching experience designed to help participants move from knowing change is needed to making it happen. Guided by Dr. Christie McMullen’s AIM framework—Analyze, Improve, Move—participants work toward individual leadership or professional goals while learning alongside a small, supportive cohort. The program includes up to 10 participants and meets bi-weekly over eight weeks for four 60-minute sessions. Each participant defines a meaningful target and completes a guided gap analysis to understand what is working, what is misaligned, and what needs to change. With coaching guidance, peer insight, and accountability, participants refine strategies, improve systems, and take action in real time. By the end of the experience, participants leave with clearer direction, improved systems, and measurable progress toward their goals. Progress doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when you AIM.

  • Take AIM: Analyze. Improve. Move. | Signature Workshop

    Take AIM is a 60-minute, hands-on workshop designed to help participants move out of ambiguity and into focused action. Instead of broad motivation or abstract goal-setting, this session gives people a simple system for deciding what to work on and how to start. During the workshop, participants identify one specific personal or professional target that would meaningfully improve their work or leadership if changed. They learn how to analyze their current reality to separate symptoms from root causes, recognize which habits or systems are holding them back, and determine where effort is currently being misdirected. The session then guides participants in choosing one realistic improvement and translating it into a clear, actionable next step. Participants leave knowing exactly what they are aiming for, why it matters, and what to do next. They walk away with a focused target, a clearer understanding of what needs to change, and a concrete action they can implement immediately. Take AIM replaces vague intention with clarity, direction, and momentum.

  • Learning Can Stick Workshop | Includes 50 Workbooks and Coaching Session Giveaway

    Learning Can Stick is an interactive workshop designed to help participants communicate ideas in a way people actually engage with, remember, and apply. Whether someone is leading an ERG, facilitating a discussion, presenting information, or contributing to group conversations, this session focuses on making learning meaningful instead of forgettable. Participants learn how to create experiences that feel safe, logical, fun, and memorable so information doesn’t just land in the moment—it sticks. The workshop translates learning science into practical strategies for increasing participation, improving clarity, and structuring conversations so people stay engaged and retain what they hear. The emphasis is on real-world application, not formal training theory. This session includes 50 copies of Dr. Christie McMullen’s book, Learning Can Stick: A Guide to Make Every Learning Experience Safe, Logical, Fun, and Memorable, which serves as a practical workbook and ongoing resource. One participant will be selected to receive a complimentary 60-minute follow-up coaching session with Dr. Christie, providing personalized support beyond the workshop. Participants leave with a clearer approach to sharing ideas, stronger confidence in leading or contributing to group learning, and tools they can immediately apply in meetings, ERG events, and everyday conversations to make learning stick long after the session ends.