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Episode 68 – Disagree and Commit: Real Dissent, Psychological Safety and Accountability in Action

May 7, 2026May 14, 2026Jennifer Long

Let’s create space, it’s episode 68 of Leadership Kung Fu!
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Many workplaces feel like disagreeing is stopping progress, when in reality, it can be the beginning of it! Jen and Sandi sit down in episode 68 to encourage you to make room for dissent by discussing:

Why creating space is currently not happening in workforces
The role of Psychological Safety in creating space
Identifying where the insecurity lives within the workforce
Setting up a space with intention
The “meeting after the meeting” actions
How prep work might be your most important work
The worth of being vulnerable
What silence can mean versus what it should mean
Levels of agreement
The effects of holding back
What alignment actually is compared to what we think it is

and more!

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Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

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Episode 67 – Expectation Drift: How Vague Leadership Breaks Execution

March 31, 2026May 14, 2026Jennifer Long

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 might have experienced Expectation Drift! Sandi and Jen jump in to tackle this topic to help teams and leaders identify and get ahead of a potential problem. Listen along as they discuss:

What IS Expecation Drift and how it happens
Employee engagement rates and other statistics around misalignment
What happens when leaders don’t know what expecations are
Leaders as learners
The role of accountability in expecation drift
Micromanaging vs. checking in
A rock analogy
How to get in front of the Drift and own it

and much more!

Jen’s Website

Sandi’s Website

Episode 66 – Stop Outsourcing Thinking: Rebuilding Your Team’s Problem-Solving Muscles

February 27, 2026April 19, 2026Jennifer Long

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 muscles healthy. Sandi and Jen dive right into:

How the cost of time with critical thinking is a lie
Low accountability and leaderned helplessness
The role of psychological safety
System 1 and System 2 thinking
The importances of exploring your problem-solving tools
Critical Thinking and A.I.
Leadership self-reflection and the role it plays
Managing discomfort
How many places you might have abandoned thinking

and much more!

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Episode 65 – Strategy is Not a Slide Deck

January 22, 2026January 21, 2026Jennifer Long

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 from your meeting slide deck and out in action in your workforce. Listen along as they discuss:

Strategy to action
How strategies from Q4 are looking in Q1
Personal anecdotes
The importance of your “No” list
Facing the fears of “what if”
Real risk vs. risks we THINK are real
What strategy is and is not
Operationalizing
How alignment is an ongoing conversation
What happens when everything is deemed important
What each level of leadership needs to do with the strategy from the top
The importance of choosing the right words
Strategy upkeep and metrics
How strategy can die and what happens if it does
The effect of run-time on strategy
The 5 take-aways of strategy

and more!

Jen’s Website

Sandi’s Website