Cultivating Joyful Cultures with Janifer Wheeler

Cultivating Joyful Cultures with Janifer Wheeler

Published: July 24, 2026

Duration: 35:55

Janifer Wheeler, known as the “joyful badass,” shares how 35 years in classrooms shaped her approach to leadership, burnout prevention, and workplace culture. In this conversation, she explains why most organizations don’t fail because of bad people, but because of broken systems, vague expectations, and a lack of training.

Janifer walks through the CCI Method, or Continuous Cultural Improvement Method, a culture operating system designed to help small companies measure, improve, and sustain healthy workplace culture. She also explains why “drift” happens in organizations, how it shows up before major problems appear, and what leaders can do to...