Using a parameter to filter my visual

Hi ditoparker , I have taken some sample of data based on your explination like this table Sheet1

I just worked on this data I have a solution on your requirement
Step1: Create a unrelated table "Selection" with this strings

Step2: Create the follwing measure to assign values to those selections

Measure = SWITCH(
    SELECTEDVALUE(Selection[Name]),
    "Joe",SUM(Sheet1[work]),
    "Everyone",CALCULATE(SUM(Sheet1[work]),Sheet1[name]="Everyone"))

Step 3 
This is the actual value of work as per the table

its showing Everyone=81, Joe=11, Total=92
Now take the "Name" column from Seletion table and take the measure created into card

we can see overall value is shown under Joe and remaining value shown under everyone
I hope it gives the solution you want , let me know
Thank you