Renée’s Research on
Love and Fear in the Workplace
Renée’s qualitative research illuminates the impacts of fear and love on individuals and workplaces. She shows us a new way forward!
“Tell me a story about a time when you felt afraid at work…and another of when you felt loved at work.”
What Renée has learned from 70+ interviews and hundreds of workshop participants is sobering. Fear is damaging to people, teams, and to the mission they are trying to fulfill. But love! Love supports and activates the very best skills, instincts, and results we aim for when we join a team or pursue a cause.
Her interviews illuminated six types of fear stories and three kinds of fundamental love stories as well as clarity about the operational definition of “love at work”. These insights create a roadmap for workplaces that are ready to let go of outdated industrial-era mindsets and practices to make work in the 21st century more productive, effective, and sustainable by making work more loving and human.
Renée shares insights from her research outcomes in keynote talks and workshops, in blogs, articles, and podcasts. She is also writing a book on love and fear at work. And her research forms the underpinnings of and inspiration for all the programs and services offered by A Human Workplace practitioners.
Renée and the AHW Team continue to expand this research, collecting more stories to better understand and explore different aspects of fear and love in the workplace, their causes, meanings, consequences, forms, solutions, and more.
And the ultimate purpose remains the same: To help workplaces around the world shift from a fear-based way of working that degrades people and diminishes human potential, team productivity, and the sustainability of the planet, to a love-based way of working that uplifts people and possibilities, safeguards the planet, and fosters positive results we each seek for our work.
