About WorkJoy
WorkJoy is a Los Angeles-based executive and leadership coaching firm founded by Tina Schust Robinson. We work with professionals and organizations to improve workplace engagement, develop stronger leaders, prevent burnout, and build cultures where people genuinely thrive. Our services include executive coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching, intuitive coaching, and keynote speaking.
Most executive coaching focuses on performance metrics and behavioral change. WorkJoy goes further. We work at the intersection of leadership, workplace culture, human fulfillment, and the realities of a rapidly changing work environment. We bring together evidence-based coaching methods, deep organizational experience, and a genuine commitment to helping people find meaning in their work, not just perform better at it.
WorkJoy works with both. We offer individual coaching for professionals at every level, and organizational programs that include team coaching, leadership development workshops, facilitation, and keynote speaking. Many clients engage us for both individual and organizational work simultaneously.
WorkJoy works with clients across a wide range of industries including technology, entertainment, media, healthcare, nonprofit, government, education, and professional services. Our approach is not industry-specific. The challenges of leadership, engagement, and workplace culture are consistent across sectors, even if the context differs.
WorkJoy is based in Los Angeles and serves clients throughout Southern California in person. We also work with clients remotely across the United States and internationally. Virtual coaching and facilitation are fully integrated into how we work, and many of our clients prefer the flexibility of remote engagement.
The best first step is to reach out through our Contact page. From there, we will schedule a brief discovery conversation to understand your goals and determine whether WorkJoy is the right fit. There is no obligation and no sales pressure.
Coaching Services
An executive coach works one-on-one with a leader to help them perform at a higher level. That can mean improving communication, sharpening decision-making, navigating a leadership transition, managing conflict, or developing the self-awareness to lead more effectively. The work is confidential, structured, and focused on real outcomes rather than generic advice.
Leadership coaching benefits executives, senior managers, emerging leaders, and high-potential professionals at any stage of their career. Organizations benefit when their leaders are more self-aware, communicate more effectively, and make better decisions under pressure. Coaching is especially valuable during transitions: a new leadership role, a period of organizational change, or rapid technological disruption.
Executive coaching improves performance by helping leaders understand how they show up, what gets in their way, and what specific behaviors or mindsets are limiting their effectiveness. Research consistently shows that leaders who engage in coaching make better decisions, communicate more clearly, build stronger teams, and sustain higher performance over time.
Most executive coaching engagements run between three and twelve months, depending on the goals and depth of work involved. WorkJoy designs each engagement around the specific needs of the client rather than a fixed package. Some clients work with us for a focused sprint around a specific challenge; others maintain an ongoing coaching relationship as their careers evolve.
Leadership coaching focuses on the individual leader: their skills, mindset, and effectiveness. Team coaching works with the group as a whole, addressing how team members communicate, collaborate, resolve conflict, and align around shared goals. Both are valuable, and many organizations benefit from combining them, developing the leader while also strengthening the team they lead.
Intuitive coaching integrates emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and deeper personal insight into the coaching process. Where executive coaching often focuses on performance and professional goals, intuitive coaching explores the underlying beliefs, patterns, and values that shape how a person leads and lives. The two approaches complement each other and are often woven together in WorkJoy engagements.
Burnout and Workplace Engagement
Burnout is rarely just about workload. It is usually a signal that something deeper is misaligned: values, purpose, relationships, or the work environment itself. Coaching helps professionals identify the root causes of burnout, rebuild clarity and energy, and develop sustainable strategies for how they lead and work. For organizations, coaching helps managers recognize and address the conditions that drive disengagement before they become retention problems.
Workplace burnout is typically caused by a combination of chronic overload, lack of autonomy, insufficient recognition, poor relationships, and a disconnect between personal values and the work environment. It is not a personal failing. It is a predictable outcome of sustained misalignment between a person and the conditions in which they work. Addressing it requires looking at both the individual and the environment.
According to Gallup research, only about 23% of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work. The rest are either going through the motions or actively disengaged. The primary drivers are poor management, lack of clarity about expectations, insufficient recognition, and a sense that their work does not matter. These are leadership and culture problems, and they are solvable with the right investment.
Quiet quitting refers to employees who remain in their roles but disengage emotionally, doing only the minimum required. It is a symptom of unaddressed burnout, poor leadership, or a culture that does not value the whole person. Coaching addresses it at both the individual and organizational level: helping leaders understand what is driving the disengagement and develop the skills to rebuild genuine engagement on their teams.
Leadership in the AI Era
AI is accelerating the pace of change in nearly every workplace. Leaders are being asked to make decisions faster, manage teams through uncertainty, and help employees adapt to tools and processes that did not exist a year ago. The human skills that AI cannot replicate, such as judgment, empathy, communication, and the ability to build trust, are becoming more valuable, not less. Coaching helps leaders develop exactly those capabilities.
In an AI-driven workplace, the leadership skills that matter most are the ones AI cannot replicate: the ability to build trust, communicate with clarity and empathy, make sound judgments in ambiguous situations, and help teams navigate change without losing engagement. Leaders who develop these capabilities will have a durable advantage regardless of how technology continues to evolve.
Yes. Coaching helps leaders build the mindset and communication skills needed to lead through disruption. That includes how to have honest conversations with teams about AI-driven change, how to maintain engagement when roles are shifting, and how to make confident decisions when the landscape is still evolving. WorkJoy specifically addresses AI-era leadership readiness as part of our coaching and speaking work.
Yes. AI transformation is fundamentally a leadership and culture challenge, not just a technology challenge. Organizations that navigate it well do so because their leaders can communicate clearly about what is changing, maintain employee trust during uncertainty, and build teams that are adaptable rather than resistant. Coaching directly develops those capabilities.