Leadership Kung Fu -The Podcast

Welcome to episode 67 of Leadership Kung Fu!If you’ve ever come up empty-handed when searching for answers from a leader, or your team is divided on what they thought the project completion standard was, you… Read more: Episode 67 – Expectation Drift: How Vague Leadership Breaks Execution

It’s critical that you know that Episode 66 of Leadership Kung Fu is here! Welcome to February’s topic of what outsourcing thinking actually does to your team and how your practices can keep the problem-solving… Read more: Episode 66 – Stop Outsourcing Thinking: Rebuilding Your Team’s Problem-Solving Muscles

Starting off 2026 strong, it’s episode 65 of Leadership Kung Fu! Join Sandi and Jen in this new year as they revisit the topic of strategy in the workplace and how to get it unstuck… Read more: Episode 65 – Strategy is Not a Slide Deck

Start making plans, episode 64 of Leadership Kung Fu is here! Jen and Sandi are thinking about the future on today’s episode and discussing workplace succession plans! What happens when your CEO has a medical… Read more: Episode 64 – Your New Leader Isn’t Ready (Yet!)

Our actions have aligned to bring you Episode 63 of Leadership Kung Fu!Join Sandi and Jen as they excitedly tackle the topic of aligned action and how your teams’ strategies can hinge upon it. Dive… Read more: Episode 63 – Strategic Momentum: The Discipline of Aligned Action

New to the group, it’s episode 62 of Leadership Kung Fu! Sandi and Jen are enthusiastic about today’s topic of new leaders and how you and your organization can set them up for success and… Read more: Episode 62 – First Moves Matter: Helping a New Leader

Welcome to episode 61 of Leadership Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi are talking the talk and walking the walk to bring you today’s topic: why leadership teams can stall! Settle in as they chat about:… Read more: Episode 61 – From Talking to Doing: Why Leadership Teams Stall

Ready for some self reflection? Here’s episode 60 of Leadership Kung Fu! Sandi and Jen are asking us to take some time and join them a moment as they chat about the importance of a… Read more: Episode 60 – The Art of the Mid-Year Check In

It’s a group effort over here on Leadership Kung Fu, so we’re glad you’re here for episode 59!Join Jen and Sandi as they dissect the topic of Concious Un-Bossing, and listen along as they cover:… Read more: Episode 59 – Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing

Travel back in time with Jen and Sandi as they chat about a topic that’s not necessarily new, but is certainly still a topic of discussion: working remotely and hybrid workforces! Whether you’re taking a… Read more: Episode 58 – Leading Hybrid and Remote

Don’t be afraid, it’s a new episode of Leadership Kung Fu! This episode is all about fearful leadership and what that can cost your place of business. Jen and Sandi waste no time diving into… Read more: Episode 57 – Reactive Fist, Broken Mind: The Cost of Fearful Leadership

How to deal with conflict can be, well, confliciting! In this episode, Jen and Sandi tackle the topic of conflict and how knowing yourself can aid you in knowing how to master conflict! Listen along… Read more: Episode 56 – Deflect and Redirect: Handling Conflict Like a Kung Fu Master

Welcome to Episode 55 of Leadership Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi are back after a shiny new rebrand and  a first episode of 2025! To start out this year, listen along as they tackle topics… Read more: Episode 55 – Leading with Clarity-Debunking Leadership Myths

Happy holidays from Organizational Transformational Kung Fu: The Podcast! Jen and Sandi are looking to the future this week and talk about goals and how to set them, keep them, and meet them! Follow along… Read more: Episode 54 – The Art of Goal Setting, Keeping, and Achieving

In this week’s episode of OT Kung Fu, Jen and Sandi revisit the types of listening they talked about with author Sean Grace and ponder how the listening types affect us in the workplace. Join… Read more: Episode 53 – Listening as a Leader

Welcome back to OT Kung Fu: The Podcast! Sandi and Jen are joined this week by the incredible author Sean Grace! From Sean’s website:  “Sean Grace is a communication consultant, author, coach, and speaker, with… Read more: Episode 52 – Say What? The Art of the Question with Author Sean Grace

Welcome to Episode 51 of OT Kung Fu: The Podcast! Joining Jen and Sandi this week is Curtis Bateman, co-author of Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity and vice president of direct international offices for FranklinCovey.… Read more: Episode 51 – Conversations on Change with Curtis Bateman

It’s OT Kung Fu’s 50th episode!We have another book review episode, this week featuring Hidden Potential by Adam Grant! Join Jen and Sandi while they cover topics like: -Performance Reviews and how they have changed from… Read more: Episode 50 – Thinking About Hidden Potential by Adam Grant

You made it to the end of July, and we have a new episode of OT Kung Fu for you to celebrate and gear up before a new month begins tomorrow! Jen and Sandi are… Read more: Episode 49 – Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity with Todd Conklin

Happy Summer! Beat the heat with Sandi and Jen and listen along as they tackle the topic of influence (as a person, not for social media)! Today they cover: and more!  Thank you so much… Read more: Episode 48 – Influence as a Strategy: Getting Better Outcomes with Others

We have a real treat for listeners today! Jen and Sandi are joined by award-winning author Dan Pontefract to talk about his new book Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team that Flourishes! From his… Read more: Episode 47 – Work-Life Bloom Interview with author Dan Pontefract

Welcome back to OT Book Club, er, we mean OT Kung Fu! Jen and Sandi invite you to listen in as they discuss “Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything”… Read more: Episode 46 – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Teams: A Red Teaming Review

Here to tell you not to live in fear of bad reviews, Jen and Sandi are joined by Dan Coldwell this week, a colleague of Sandi’s at Satori Consulting, Inc. Dan has 30 years of… Read more: Episode 45 – The Customer Experience and a Coaching Approach with Dan Coldwell

Happy first podcast of 2024! We’re starting out this new year with a treat for you- Jen and Sandi are joined by Sandi’s colleague Cara Cameron, who holds the position of Chief Future of Work… Read more: Episode 44 – Transformational Leadership with Cara Cameron

Surprise! One additional episode before the New Year! This week, Jen and Sandi discuss changes in the workplace and how those changes come about. It all starts from the same place: you! Join them as… Read more: Episode 43 – Change Starts with You

Happy December! This week, Jen and Sandi are joined by fellow entrepreneur and author Julie Ellis! Join the trio as they discuss: Thank you so much for joining us, Julie! If you have a question… Read more: Episode 42 – Leveraging Mastermind Groups to Grow Yourself and Your Business with Julie Ellis

In this episode of OT Kung Fu, join Jen and Sandi as they dive into how strong leaders are able to recognize their own shortcomings to encourage their own growth and stability as leaders. Topics… Read more: Episode 41 – Strong Leaders Know They Are Imperfect

Join Jen and Sandi LIVE from New York (not on Saturday Night, unfortunately) as they discuss how often the teams at the top and how the top team can be skipped when they start investing… Read more: Episode 40 – Leadership Training at the Top

Sandi and Jen explore the topic of what it means when someone feels psychologically safe in a workplace and where that starts for us, and what affect that can have on workplace accountability. Have a… Read more: Episode 39 – Psychological Safety and Accountability

Jen and Sandi take on a relevant topic of DEI- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the workplace to ensure it’s not just a token requirement that is met simply to tick a box. They round… Read more: Episode 38 – Getting Results from DEI Efforts

Join Sandi and Jen as they tackle the topic of meetings, the kind of people who show up to them, and what makes a meeting actually worth your time to attend. As the nature of… Read more: Episode 37 – Meeting Disciplines

Join Sandi and Jen as they dive into what it takes and means to coach leaders and how to encourage them and keep them as new folks are stepping into leadership roles. They also discuss… Read more: Episode 36 – Coaching Leaders

Jen and Sandi come to you today talking about what it a team truly is and what it takes to establish that team and the normalities needed for the team to function cohesively and productively.… Read more: Episode 35 – Establishing Teams and Team Norms

Join Sandi and Jen as they discuss good strategies in the workplace versus bad ones, and how to get your team through both. Listen in as they discuss some of their favorite strategy authors, resources,… Read more: Episode 34 – Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

This week, Jen and Sandi discuss the workplace post-pandemic, and the humanness of the stresses that are sourced from the adaptations we’ve had to make. They offer some solutions to keeping yourself and your team… Read more: Episode 33 – Leading in Stressful Times

Sandi and Jen meet to discuss retention of employees in the workplace and what that looks like in 2023. With much of the workforce now remote, what can managers and leaders do to keep them… Read more: Episode 32 – Retention

Jen and Sandi discuss VUCA-Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity and what the impact of changing strategies can bring to the pace of our lives and the business world. What events in the workplace give us… Read more: Episode 31 – Strategic Whiplash

Sandi and Jen interview Reut Schwartz-Hebron. Reut Sandi and Jen discuss how accountability interacts with neuroscience and how that affects work and life. Reut trains and supports coaches, consultants, and HR leaders to complete their… Read more: Episode 30 – Neuroscience of Accountability

Sandi interviews her co-host, Jen about her new book: Own Up! How to Hold People Accountable without all the Drama. Jen and Sandi talk about what is in the book and go through the Six… Read more: Episode 29 – Own Up! Drama Free Accountability

Sandi and Jen talk about listening being the key to communication and that good listening is a big part of being an effective leader. They also go over active and advanced listening as well as… Read more: Episode 28 – Better Communication thru Better Listening

Sandi and Jen discuss what Vision is for business.  They talk about Vision vs Mission statement. They also go over how story works with Vision to keep it front of mind for everyone, how to… Read more: Episode 27 – Getting Clear on Vision

Sandi and Jen have a discussion with Andy Storch, author of Own your Career Own your Life. They talk about what it means to Own you Career in a company setting and what are the… Read more: Episode 26 – Own Your Career

Sandi and Jen discuss what is a self-directed team, what are the items and issues that come up for a good and for a bad self directed team. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Sandi and Jen discuss what Empathy is and what Leading with Empathy is all about.  They discuss empathy, sympathy, judgement and curiosity and how they are all related and how these affect leadership. Jen’s Website… Read more: Episode 24 – Leading with Empathy

Sandi and Jen discuss the opportunities and issues of coming back to work after the pandemic. They talk about the opportunity to remake and restart the workplace culture, that we are never going back to the same… Read more: Episode 23 – The Hybrid Workplace Challenge

Sandi and Jen speak with expert Renee Bazile-Jones about Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the workplace.  They describe what DE&I is, how is it being done, what is currently right and what is wrong. They discuss leadership… Read more: Episode 22 – Diversity Equity and Inclusion Revisited

Jen and Sandi are joined by Ray Kong, senior client partner with Ipsos and part time associate for Satori, to discuss the importance of customer experience, what it means to be ‘customer led’ and how… Read more: Episode 21 – The Customer Experience

Jen and Sandi discuss the meaning of leadership and what this style of leading looks like. They also touch on the science of values and most relevant to this week, what the workplace will look… Read more: Episode 20 – Human Centered Leadership

Jen and Sandi discuss tapping into mindfulness and the challenge of truly understanding what we unconsciously (or consciously) do to sabotage our goals Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Jen and Sandi define what diversity and inclusion is and what it means to businesses. They also discuss the importance of it and what businesses need to do in order to be diverse and inclusive.… Read more: Episode 18 – Diversity and Inclusion in Business

Jen and Sandi have an in-depth conversation with Ben Harris, President of Production Solutions, about how to be an effective leader when leading a primarily remote workforce. Ben shares his experience, insights and strategies after… Read more: Episode 17 – Leading Remotely

Sandi and Jen talk with Gary Anderson, ‘Chief Empowerment Officer’ of Nova Mutual Insurance. Gary believes that culture will drive results and on this podcast they are going to tap into some to the interesting… Read more: Episode 16 – Focusing on Culture to Drive Strategy

Sandi and Jen sit down with Tony Gareri, CEO and “Chief of WOW” of Roma Mouldings and talk about the importance of generating a productive workplace culture. Find out in’s and out’s of how Tony… Read more: Episode 15 – Generating a Productive Workplace Culture

In this episode Master Coaches Jen and Sandi talk about change. Workplace organizations are going through seismic shifts in how work is getting done and leaders are faced with charting this new course in addition… Read more: Episode 14 – Change: Embracing What’s Next

With rapid change comes the need for new skills as well as updated skills. This podcast covers some thinking and strategies around the need for on-going skills development, some solutions on how to incorporate skills… Read more: Episode 13 – Upskilling Your Team

Jen and Sandi talk about teaming and everything that goes into being a highly productive team. The talk about teaming in a virtual environment and the challenges of keeping teams engaged when everyone is remote.… Read more: Episode 12 – All About Teaming

Sandi and Jen welcome special guest Trina Hoefling. Trina is an expert in Virtual Teaming.  Jen, Sandi and Trina discuss working as a virtual team and many of the issues that crop up and how… Read more: Episode 11 – Tips from a Virtual Teaming Expert

Jen and Sandi share some thinking, ideas and strategies for dealing with and leading during the pandemic. Stay Safe! Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Jen and Sandi touch on the following topics around values: The importance of core values What are core values? Why are they important? How to choose them? Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Sandi and Jen talk about Trust in Management and Leadership roles as well as Trust in Teams and how to build trust for better business outcomes.  They also discuss tools to help with trust building.… Read more: Episode 08 – Trust in the Workplace

Sandi and Jen take about trends. They discuss Teams, Trust, Courage and Vulnerability, Communication, Recognition and tools like the PXT Select™ and Five Behaviors. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Jen and Sandi talk about coaching vs managing and how coaching and managing work together. They also chat about what it takes to have a coaching culture and what are some of the pitfalls and… Read more: Episode 06 – Coaching vs Managing

Jen and Sandi talk about conflict in the workplace and how to make that negative experience a more productive event for you and the business. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Sandi and Jen talk about business vision statements and the differences between business vision statements and business mission statements. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Jen and Sandi discuss accountability and how it relates to engagement and poor performance. They talk about what it really means to hold accountability in the workplace. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

Sandi and Jen talk about defining company strategy and company strategy in relation to company mission, vision and goals. Jen’s Website Sandi’s Website

An organization’s or division’s strategic plan is critical to set direction but is often confused with goals and tactics because executives are keen to see results. Learn to be comfortable with a broader view and… Read more: Episode 01 – Intro to OT KungFu and Sandi and Jen and Strategic Planning