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Championing Change At WorkHow to Navigate Shifting Priorities At Work Leading change effectively isn’t about checking boxes when corporate priorities shift. If you want to navigate shifting priorities without burnout, build a workplace where employees feel valued, engaged, and empowered to contribute meaningfully. In times of change, uncertainty, and evolving objectives, one truth remains: people need to feel valued. When employees know their contributions matter, they are able to make better decisions, collaborate more effectively, and take ownership of their roles in ways that drive real results across corporations. About Domonique Townsend: Hi! I’m Domonique Townsend. I help leaders drive change, secure stakeholder buy...2025-04-0223 min
Locked On Cyclones - Daily Podcast on Iowa State Cyclones Football & BasketballBOMBSHELL: Iowa State's Wide Receiver Room EXPLODES with Talent | Can Cyclones DOMINATE Big 12?The Iowa State Cyclones are heading into the 2025 season with high expectations after a successful 2024 campaign, finishing 11-3 and making it to the Big 12 Championship game. While they lose some key players to the NFL Draft, including receivers Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, the return of quarterback Rocco Becht and some promising newcomers offer an optimistic outlook. Wide Receiver RoomThe departure of Higgins and Noel leaves a significant void in the receiving corps. However, Iowa State has brought in two transfers to help fill those roles: Xavier Townsend from UCF and Chase Sowell from E...2025-04-0228 min
Championing Change At WorkWOW Action: Saying Yes to Everything Weakens Your Influence As a LeaderLeadership isn’t about how much you can take on, it’s about how effectively you lead and engage others to drive results in navigating a change or business initiative. But too often, leaders like you can fall into the trap of believing that saying yes to everything is a sign of dedication. You might believe that to be impactful, you must always have the answers before taking action. Or that the hardest-working leaders, the ones who continually stretch themselves thin are the most committed.In the workplace, many times you aren’t afforded the opportunity to say no...2025-03-2608 min
Championing Change At WorkWinning Over Decision-Makers and Influencers at WorkIn this episode of Championing Change at Work, Domonique Townsend dives into the critical role relationships play in leadership. She shares how one multi-million-dollar initiative failed due to poor stakeholder engagement and contrasts it with instances where leaders turned resistance into success through strong relationship-building. Tune in for actionable strategies on how to win over decision-makers and influencers, ensuring your ideas gain the buy-in they deserve. Domonique explains why strong strategies alone aren’t enough and outlines four essential steps for managing stakeholders: 1) Identifying key stakeholders and understanding their motivations 2) Persuading decision-makers to ge...2025-02-2027 min
Championing Change At WorkKnowing Your Change Type: The Key to Engaging Leadership Understanding how you respond to change can transform the way you lead, navigate uncertainty, and support your team. In this episode, we explore the four primary change types—Pioneer, Navigator, Reflector, and Guardian—and how self-awareness can help you reduce stress, increase adaptability, and foster trust in times of transition. Learn how to leverage your natural tendencies to become a more confident and effective leader.What You’ll Learn: ✔️ The four main change types and how they shape your response to change ✔️ Why self-awareness is crucial for navigating transitions successfully ✔️ How to identify your p...2025-02-1122 min
Championing Change At WorkNavigating Change Beyond Your Control and Staying Mission DrivenIn this episode of Championing Change at Work, we dive into the realities of navigating change as a business owner and leader. After a major contract loss due to an executive order, I reflect on the emotional and strategic pivots required to stay mission driven. I cover how shifts in corporate priorities, particularly DEI rollbacks, impact leaders and employees, no matter their industry. Most importantly, I share actionable strategies to be successful in: Pivoting a process while staying on mission during change beyond your control. Developing a strategy to be proactive in reducing employee resistance and negative impacts...2025-01-2919 min
Championing Change At WorkFrom Fear to Focus Part 3: Creating the Strategy That Brings Your Vision to LifePart3: From Fear to Focus: Transformative Strategies to Lead Change with Clarity and ConfidenceIn part 1, we covered developing your leadership purpose statement to redefine how your core values support achieving a key objective in leading your team. In part 2, we explored empathy mapping and how it is an excellent tool to help you further understand the concerns and potential challenges to consider in the training, resources and actions determined for your approach in navigating a change. Now, we are bringing it all together in part 3! By providing clarity in your communication and engaging with...2025-01-2226 min
Championing Change At WorkFrom Fear to Focus (Pt. 2): Transformative Strategies for Leading Change With Clarity and Confidence Fear and stress are natural responses to change, experiencing these emotions are NOT and I repeat NOT emotional responses that are indicative of your capability to be successful in leading the change itself. As a leader, your role is not to eliminate the emotions you experience personally or to eliminate the emotions expressed by your team. Your role as a leader…… has a greater impact when you focus on creating a space where these emotions can be understood and addressed intentionally. One of the most optimal tools to normalize and navigate a dialogue that incorporates the emotional aspe...2025-01-1421 min
Championing Change At WorkFrom Fear to Focus: Transformative Strategies to Lead Change With Clarity and ConfidenceIf you are a leader experiencing anxiety, worry or fear of how employees will respond to change or in how you will be successful leading the change - this series is for you. I’m Domonique Townsend, Your Right-Hand Navigator for Driving Change, Engaging Teams, and Sustaining Success. In this 3-part series, I am going to walk you from the limiting emotion of fear to experiencing the expanded emotion of focus with transformative strategies to help you lead change with clarity and confidence. Change can be stressful, but the weight of trying to figure out al...2025-01-0712 min
Championing Change At WorkLeading Change in 2025: How Your Role Shapes Transformation and Drives SuccessIn this episode, I cover the dynamics of change and its significance for improving your personal and organization’s success in navigating any change. Have your pen and paper ready, I will be providing you with a process for change success that has been taught to thousands of leaders in the workplace! Many times, we are not in control of when change will occur, but we do have an opportunity to change how we experience change.Check out this episode on “Leading Change in 2025: How Your Role Shapes Transformation and Drives Success”!Do y...2024-12-3153 min
Championing Change At WorkClarity Fuels Rest: Overcoming the Struggle to Recharge on Your Off DaysThe holiday season often amplifies the pressures of work-life balance, especially if you are juggling year-end demands. This time of year, you’re likely finding yourself mentally and emotionally taxed, struggling to disconnect from work despite the promise of rest. As a leader, it’s essential to understand that clarity is your greatest ally. When your mind is clear, rest transforms into a strategic tool that goes beyond surface-level relaxation to fuel your long-term effectiveness. Rest may seem like an unattainable luxury or overlooked as an opportunity to consider within your schedule, and the ability to rest can be a bi...2024-12-2415 min
Championing Change At WorkNo More Mixed Signals: How to Communicate With Confidence During Change Navigating change in the workplace as a leader can often feel like walking a tightrope. You’re balancing the responses of employees and the directives of executives, all while striving to meet challenging timelines that push your current demands to the limit. There are communication techniques that you can incorporate into your approach that will not only boost your confidence but also transform skepticism into buy-in from your team.“The way that you communicate has the power to shift perspectives, build understanding, and empower change in the workplace.”In this episode, we’ll walk through the comm...2024-12-1733 min
Championing Change At WorkWhat if change disrupts our productivity or performance? The fear that adjusting to change could temporarily affect performance, productivity, or the quality of work can lead to decreased output or overall dissatisfaction - it is a REAL concern. But what I have learned is that our initial reaction to a change is not the truth of what is being compromised. For your initial concern about change is a perceived loss of quality and not an actual loss of quality in what change impacts. In this podcast episode, we will focus on 3 areas that will help you understand your concerns around change, the right strategy to...2024-12-1045 min
Championing Change At WorkHow To Get Buy-In When Employees Are Resistant to Change Thank you for listening to today's episode of "How to Get Buy-In When Employees are Resistant to Change?"! I'm Domonique Townsend, your host and go-to navigator for championing change at work. It is an honor to share my work and experiences to help you lead with impact and innovation in the workplace. In this episode, I speak on: How to identify your personal behavioral tendencies to change. How to develop an aligning objective where the change speaks to the language of your team. How to lead outcomes-based conversations to encourage buy-in around a change. Remember...2024-12-0340 min
Championing Change At WorkTrailer: Championing Change At Work Are you a leader navigating the challenges of transformation? Wondering how to manage resistance, ensure successful transitions, or keep morale high when everything around you are shifting? You’re not alone.I’m Domonique Townsend, your host and go-to change management expert. Over the past 17 years combined in the workplace and now as a corporate consultant, I’ve heard all the tough questions from leaders across industries. Questions like: "How do I get my team on board when they’re resistant to change?" “What’s the secret to a smooth transition without losing productivity?” And “How do I keep my team’s...2024-11-2202 min
The Phylanice Nashe ExperienceFunding Black-Owned Businesses: The Bridge Resource Partnership Fund Part 2 -A Discussion with The Recipients of the Bridge Resource Partnership FundPANEL DISCUSSIONThe racial wealth gap makes funding for Black Entrepreneurs difficult. The first step towards solving this problem is investing in minority founders.The Phylanice Nashe Experience Podcast is shining a bright light on the assistance provided by The Bridge Resource Partnership Fund, started & funded by Nashville entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dr. Turner Nashe, Jr. to help Black-owned businesses, including Black Woman-Owned Businesses, bridge that funding gap.JOIN US FRIDAY, 3/25 @ 12 pm CST LIVE on LinkedIn, YouTube & Facebook for a panel discussion with the 5 Black Woman-Owned Business Founders who received the first round of funding...2022-03-2551 min
The Phylanice Nashe Experience"I Saw It Coming": How I Turned My Layoff Nightmare Into My Entrepreneurship Dream | w/Mompreneur and Executive Process Improvement Consultant, Domonique TownsendYouTube Interview Video: The Phylanice Nashe Experience YouTube ChannelSummary: On this episode Host Phylanice Nashe has an inspiring discussion with up and coming entrepreneur, Domonique Townsend, owner & CEO of We Optimize Work. Domonique shares how an unexpected (but not unexpected) lay off from her lucrative corporate job (her family's sole source of income) pushed her to jump head first into Entrepreneurship and her husband's support in that decision. Listen in to this story of resilience and grit. You'll be inspired to pour life into your business and successfully balance work...2021-12-1027 min
Her Story of SuccessChoose to Challenge: A Live International Women’s Day PanelIn honor of International Women’s Day 2021, Her Story of Success was honored to join Collective615 for ChallengeHER, an event celebrating women who are affecting change in Nashville and beyond. As part of the event, Her Story of Success CEO Leah Glover Hayes hosted a panel discussion with three incredible women who are affecting change in Nashville and beyond — Mignon Francois, Domonique Townsend and Alexis Isham. They discuss some of the challenges they’ve faced as women business owners, especially during the difficulties of COVID-19. The women also share some amazing lessons about the things that have kept t...2021-04-011h 00
She Built It® PodcastOptimize Work with Domonique TownsendDomonique Townsend is the Founder and CEO of We Optimize Work. She is an engineer, entrepreneur, and working mother of four children who decided to combine her corporate experience with her passion to position working moms for success. Domonique applied principles that she used to solve complex problems in business and modeled it into a framework to meet both the personal and professional needs of working moms like herself. We Optimize Work supports working moms in their personal aspirations without having to downshift in their careers.Join us and be inspired to optimize your work s...2021-02-1825 min
Her Story of SuccessKnowing Your Value with Domonique TownsendDomonique Townsend spent years being undervalued by the companies she worked for, and when she decided to take the leap to start her own business, she knew she was ready to reach a higher potential. Domonique is the founder of We Optimize Work, a company that creates strategies and systems to help working moms and mom CEOs. As an operations coach and workflow expert with more than 10 years of engineering experience, Domonique is able to help moms manage their work and raise a family without compromising their sanity or goals. Along with her years of industrial engineering e...2021-02-0454 min
Let's Thrive TogetherEp2 Shifting Without Shame with Domonique TownsendGet ready to catch these gems! Domonique Townsend is the Chief Business Improvement Strategist for We Optimize Work! With over a decade of experience as a Professional Engineer and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, her extensive background in leadership and management has led companies to excel in meeting strategic goals in retention, engagement, cross-functional projects and process optimization on a global scale.Domonique is also a native of Nashville, TN, wife and mom of four children and serves on the Women GetIT board as the membership chair and sits on the board of Purpose Preparatory Academy. In this...2020-04-1940 min