Game of Engagement: How Leaders Can Create a Winning Culture at Work

By Blair Bloomston

Your Playbook for Designing a Winning Workplace Culture

Most organizations are losing the talent engagement game, and many don't even know they're playing it. Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace shows that only 1 in 5 employees are engaged at work. Game of Engagement offers a fresh solution to what leaders consistently identify as a critical challenge: how to create a workplace culture that sustains employee commitment, energy, motivation, and performance over the long term. Blair Bloomston's unexpected solution is designing your workplace culture so that everyone wins.

Bloomston's strategic LIFT Framework is a practical approach to developing a workplace culture in which employee engagement thrives. Inspired by principles of game design, the framework helps leaders intentionally shape four key elements that influence how people think, feel, connect, and contribute at work:

Language defines what your culture stands for and whether people believe it.
Influence shapes what work feels like, from outer incentives to inner motivation.
Fellowship determines whether people see each other as teammates or opponents.
Traction takes repeatable actions and transforms them from simple engagement into lasting results.

Bloomston draws on vivid, high-stakes stories from her work with world-class sports teams, government organizations, the military, and elite global corporations, demonstrating how the game of engagement plays out in every type of workplace to drive motivation, buy-in, and results.

Your workplace culture already operates like a game of engagement. Become the leader who designs a game people want to play to win.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1970514140
• ISBN13: 9781970514148
• Release Date: August 2027
• Publisher: ASTD
• Length: 240 Pages