His research interests focus on motivation, leadership, engagement, and compensation. He has presented his works at regional, national, and international conferences in such locales as Toronto, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, San Diego, and Orlando. He has been teaching at the collegiate level for 19 years starting at LSU, continuing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA and since 2008, the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. He teaches a variety of classes including Foundations of Business, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Human Resource Management, and Compensation Management. Faulk received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Louisiana State University in 2002.