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Leadership Kung Fu

Sandi Verrecchia and Jennifer Long

Leadership Kung Fu was created with agile leaders like yourself in mind as a platform to share our best business development practices, self improvement tips, and share in our knowledge of what it means to be a high performing leader. We invite you to listen in as we chat with guests and provide our insight on various industry related topics as two seasoned executive coaches.

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All Episodes

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62 - First Moves Matter: Helping a New Leader

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2025/09/30

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 if you're a new leader, how to tackle that transition with flying colors. Listen in as they discuss: common new leader hurdles and transition difficulties how values shift in a new role the art of letting go what your leadership will look like as you make the shift technical skills and relationship skills how

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61 - From Talking to Doing: Why Leadership Teams Stall

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2025/09/16

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: Words are nice, but action is important Stalling due to fear of conflict Feeling safe in the workplace How multiple priorities can actually be a hindrance Corporate whiplash and fatigue Alignment vs. accountability The Knowing-Doing gap How to stop "The Stall" The One Hard Question What parts you actually play

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34:22

60 - The Art of the Mid-Year Check In

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2025/07/31

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 mid-year check in, not just with our teams, but with ourselves too! Listen along as they highlight: The importance of sense-making Measuring your efficacy, not your results How often are you getting feedback? Your leadership "brand" Behavior that reflects value Reactiveness and the signs of burnout, physical and non

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34:35

59 - Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing

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2025/05/31

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: Jen's NEW book Workers are the Solution, Not the Problem: A Guidebook to Leading Differently how Gen Z is bringing changes to the workplace conscious uncoupling what it means to start to change a workplace culture purpose over power inclusivity is a power tool trust at every level and how it becomes an

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58 - Leading Hybrid and Remote

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2025/04/30

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 break in the breakroom or moving laundry inbetween meetings, listen along as Jen and Sandi discuss: The importance of asking questions and the weight of listening a brief conversation about how engagement surveys can fail you thinking about how your work is best done could influece hybrid work

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37:09

57 - Reactive Fist, Broken Mind: The Cost of Fearful...

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2025/03/31

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 what can truly be at stake when leadership takes a reactive instead of a strategic approach. Listen along as they delve into: what can trigger reactive leadership how you show up and how that can impact your team and their action what short-term thinking means for long term effects how reactionary actions

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36:09

56 - Deflect and Redirect: Handling Conflict Like a...

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2025/02/28

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 conquer conflict! Listen along as they cover: why conflict can be good for leaders the different types of conflict how to identify what your own conflict behavior is what harm withdrawing from conflict can do the role of EQ (emotional intelligence) in conflict and the weight it carries the gift of considering different

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55 - Leading with Clarity-Debunking Leadership Myths

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2025/01/31

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 such as: what has changed within things you subscribe to and how the workplace is different than what it was 10/15+ years ago how "no" is not a bad word in the workplace vulnerability is a good, healthy thing not all leaders are charismatic Everything DiSC by Wiley results vs. relationships and the importance of

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35:42

54 - Leadership Kung Fu

Leadership Kung Fu ·

2024/12/27

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 as they chat about: their year in review what reflection can do for you and writing vs. typing/digital record keeping hard vs. soft transformations the role of practice and support in discipline what we're really doing when we "let ourselves off the hook" the importance of the set up short term

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37:41

53 - Listening as a Leader

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2024/11/29

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 them as they cover: how virtual calls have affected listening the importance of body language what curiosity really does for you conversational blindspots levels of learning Neha Sangwan's book TalkRx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations That Create Connection, Health, and Happiness and more! Thank you so much

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41:27

52 - Say What? The Art of the Question with Author...

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2024/10/25

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 over 25 years of experience developing and training sales, marketing, and leadership talent across diverse industries. His unique brand of business consulting is forged from his long career in media, advertising, and the creative arts. Sean studied music performance at the Juilliard School

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51 - Conversations on Change with Curtis Bateman

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2024/09/27

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. From the FranklinCovey site: "With over twenty-five years of experience in the training industry, Curtis is an internationally recognized presenter, content developer, change consultant, business leader, and coach. His passion for enabling

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50 - Thinking About Hidden Potential by Adam Grant

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2024/08/30

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 potential to goal-oriented -How imperfect leaders are more beneficial than "perfect" leaders -How meeting folks where there are at instead of where you want them to be cultivates a better workplace culture -High potential compared to related experience -Why learning agility is more

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55:31

49 - Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity...

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2024/07/31

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 joined on this episode by Dr. Todd Conklin, author of Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety as well as host of his organizational safety podcast of the same name. From his website: "Todd Conklin spent 25 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Senior Advisor for Organizational and Safety Culture.

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48 - Influence as a Strategy: Getting Better Outcomes...

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2024/06/28

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: How reciprocity is different within the workplace How you show up as a leader to your peers vs. to your boss The traits of a successful workplace influencer Their love and use of the EverythingDiSC® by Wiley within training they have done Negotiation awareness and the balance required to not cross the line into manipulation Persuasion vs

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47 - Work-Life Bloom with author Dan Pontefract

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2024/05/24

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 website: "Dan is a renowned keynote speaker who has presented at four TED events and delivers approximately 50 keynotes annually. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business and has received over 25 industry, individual, and book awards." Listen along as Dan,

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46 - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Teams:...

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2024/04/19

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" by Bryce G. Hoffman. Enjoy the ASMR of Jen and Sandi flipping through to their favorite parts and points of the book and chatting about how you can empower your teams to think critically in tough situations, and how you can get that critical thinking to produce critical solutions! If you want Jen and Sandi

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45 - The Customer Experience and a Coaching Approach...

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2024/02/23

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 and sports world. Listen along as they chat about: Acting on feedback/pain points The 3 steps of

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44 - Transformational Leadership with Cara Cameron

Leadership Kung Fu ·

2024/01/25

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 workforce impacts the organization, teams, and how those parties respond to the change. Listen along as Jen,

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43 - Change Starts with You

Leadership Kung Fu ·

2023/12/28

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 Cy Wakeman -the level of awareness in change -self-reflection when it comes to change and more! Enjoy

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