Organizational Transformation Kung Fu

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