YORKTON - Creating a better workplace is good for business, said Yorkton Chamber of Commerce Business Dinner speaker Jennifer Barroll, but it takes effort from everyone involved.

“We are whole people. We don’t just exist at work,” she explained during a media scrum before her presentation Oct. 8.

Barroll, who in 2026 will release her first book, Make Work Not Suck: A Conscious Leader’s Guide for Building Teams That Thrive, providing insight for leaders seeking to foster environments where teams flourish.

Barroll said each person needs to identify their own strengths and then determine how to best “take that into the workplace.”

That doesn’t mean it’s an easy process to recognize and build on our strengths.

“We’ve lived long enough to know life is hard,” said Barroll, you can “put in a

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