Leadership Kung Fu

Happy February Podcast! Jen and Sandi are joined by Dan Coldwell this week, a colleague of Sandi's at Satori Consulting, Inc. Dan has 30 years of experience in financial services as an executive and industry speaker and has also served as chief marketing and chief operations officer in past positions. He is a hockey certified coach, and he "cross-pollinates" (as he puts it) between the business an...

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 for Mutual Insurance. She has worked in Human Resources for over 15 years and is passionate about developing leaders. With her Chief Future of Work position, she is able to better analyze how the changing work...

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 they cover: -how change is not linear, but dynamic -how to go about thinking about change and understanding the "why" of change -how changing requires vulnerability -the Pyramid of Readiness model by C...

Happy December! This week, Jen and Sandi are joined by fellow entrepreneur and author Julie Ellis! Join the trio as they discuss: -Julie's start with Mabel's Labels and how she scales her leadership systems for different sized teams at different revenue numbers - Julie's new Mastermind project: a peer-reviewed mentorship for women in business and how to scale your successes -What evolutions take p...

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 in this episode include: - self reflection and the act of identifying your own insecurities and how that is a helpful skill -Imposter syndrome -The Johari Window -Humility and learning from mistakes -How b...

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 in team learning and workplace learning. They touch on the importance of top teams always checking in with their own learning as organizational health can shift and grow. Editor's note: due the location and way of...

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 effect that can have on workplace accountability. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here   Have a question, comment, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Leave us a comment in the box below!  

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 out Pride Month by placing the workplace and ourselves under the microscope with how to we recognize and shift into DEI mindsets. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 meetings has changed in recent years, Jen and Sandi encourage reflection on the hows and whys of meetings and their attendees at their cores. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 how leaders can learn and adapt that "coaching" role as modern leadership takes on more than previous years. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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, and inspirations to navigate process and product. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 stress-free while navigating hybrid work environments.   For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 engaged, and what does that look like versus those who wanted to come back to the office? Tune in to hear how things have changed and how to navigate the waves of management. For Sandi's website, Click Here For...

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 whiplash, and how do we come out of it? For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 Certification in Applied Neuroscience. Click Here to learn more about Reut Schwartz-Hebron For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 Ownership Steps model of Accountability™ for Mangers and Leaders. Click Here buy and get more info about the Own Up! book

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 'listening in judgement' vs 'listening in discovery'. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 create a business vision and they touch on how personal vision will help engagement. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 issues that go with those decisions. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here For Andy's website, Click Here

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. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here

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 workplace, that work and home have collided, that short an long term decisions need to happen as a manager and how are you standing in the company values as you reshape the workplace. For...

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 and DE&I and unconscious bias. Renee discusses data for good DE&I. She also relays an example about good DE&I practices. They also discuss the uncomfortable conversations abo...

Sandi and Jen speak with guest Ray Kong about what it means to you and your organization to be in organization that is customer experience led and how to become a customer experience led organization. For Sandi's website, Click Here For Jen's website, Click Here