How do you keep employees engaged when the holiday season brings stress, fatigue, and emotional overload? In this episode of Boss Better Now, leadership expert Joe Mull, CSP, CPAE, breaks down what leaders must do to sustain motivation, effort, and commitment during the most hectic time of the year.

Discover why engagement often dips in November and December—and how to counter it by doubling down on what drives commitment all year long: purpose, recognition, compassion, and true leadership presence. Joe shares practical strategies for helping employees manage difficult customers, stay connected to meaning, and navigate personal stress without losing their spark at work.

Whether you're leading a team of five or five hundred, this episode equips you with actionable leadership tools to maintain engagement, boost morale, and cultivate a workplace where people feel seen, supported, and committed—even in the busiest season of the year.

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Joe Mull is on a mission to help leaders and business owners create the conditions where commitment takes root—and the entire workplace thrives.

A dynamic and deeply relatable speaker, Joe combines compelling research, magnetic storytelling, and practical strategies to show exactly how to cultivate loyalty, ignite effort, and build people-first workplaces where both performance and morale flourish. His message is clear: when commitment is activated, engagement rises, teams gel, retention improves, and business outcomes soar.

Joe is the founder of Boss Hero School™ and the creator of the acclaimed Employalty™ framework, a roadmap for creating thriving workplaces in a new era of work. He’s the author of three books, including Employalty, named a top business book of the year by Publisher’s Weekly, and his popular podcast, Boss Better Now, ranks in the top 1% of management shows globally.

A former head of learning and development at one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S., Joe has spent nearly two decades equipping leaders—from Fortune 500 companies like State Farm, Siemens, and Choice Hotels to hospitals, agencies, and small firms—with the tools to lead better, inspire commitment, and build more humane workplace cultures. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and more.

In 2025, Joe was inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame (CPAE). This is the speaking profession’s highest honor, a distinction granted to less than 1% of professional speakers worldwide. It’s awarded to speakers who demonstrate exceptional talent, integrity, and influence in the speaking profession

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