Leadership Kung Fu

For a company's leaders and managers to thrive they must become masters of transformation and agile learners; they must commit the energy and time to be better. This podcast discusses the current critical skills and practices for organizational leaders and managers to become more effective in their roles. Join Jennifer Long and Sandi Verrecchia, each a seasoned executive coach, as they discuss specific ideas and actions leaders and managers can take and practice to create positive impacts within their organizations.

59 - Conscious Un-Bossing: The New Distaste for Managing 05/31/2025

58 - Leading Hybrid and Remote 04/30/2025

57 - Reactive Fist, Broken Mind: The Cost of Fearful Leadership 03/31/2025

56 - Deflect and Redirect: Handling Conflict Like a Kung Fu Master 02/28/2025

55 - Leading with Clarity-Debunking Leadership Myths 01/31/2025

54 - The Art of Goal Setting, Keeping, and Achieving 12/27/2024

53 - Listening as a Leader 11/29/2024

52 - Say What? The Art of the Question with Author Sean Grace 10/25/2024

52 - Say What? The Art of the Question with Author Sean Grace 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 and SUNY Purchase, and finance at Wharton. As an award winning musician and multi-instrumentalist, he borrows techniques from jazz improvisation to help foster creative collaboration and cooperation within and across teams. Sean’s track record of success as a consultant and coach has earned him a reputation as a trusted advisor and trainer to some of the world’s most innovative and successful organizations." Listen along as Jen, Sandi, and Sean discuss topics from Sean's new book The Art of the Question: A Guide for Seekers, Dreamers, Problem Solvers and Leaders such as: the value of creative thinking in a post-pandemic workplace Sean's workflow in how he got started in the formulation of questions how vital curiosity and openness is to the process of questions the 3 phase model types of listening and the effect on conversations and situations the Socratic 8 his work as a musician and his album "Wonderland" the origin of the name OT Kung Fu! You can connect with Sean at and find his book over at ! Thank you so much for joining us, Sean! Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on and visit her website Connect with Sandi on and visit her website Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Leave us a comment on LinkedIn! /episode/index/show/otkungfu/id/33603827

51 - Conversations on Change with Curtis Bateman 09/27/2024

50 - Thinking About Hidden Potential by Adam Grant 08/30/2024

49 - Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity with Todd Conklin 07/31/2024

49 - Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity with Todd Conklin 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. Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost research and development laboratories; Dr. Conklin has been working on the Human Performance program for the last 15 years of his 25-year career. It is in this fortunate position where he enjoys the best of both the academic world and the world of safety in practice. Conklin holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of New Mexico. He speaks all over the world to executives, groups and work teams who are interested in better understanding the relationship between the workers in the field and the organization’s systems, processes, and programs. He has brought these systems to major corporations around the world. Conklin practices these ideas not only in his own workplace, but also in the event investigations at other workplaces around the world. Conklin’s best selling book, Pre-Accident Investigations: An introduction to Organizational Safety is a best selling book on safety. Conklin has several other books and a huge podcast following for his twice-weekly podcast of the same name. Conklin defines safety at his workplace like this: 'Safety is the ability for workers to be able to do work in a varying and unpredictable world.'" Listen along as they talk about the 5 HOP principles mentioned in Dr.Conklin's book and how leadership mindsets can flourish within those principles, what simply having confidence can do for you, "why?" versus "how?" and what kind of leader flocks to each question, and more! Thank you so much for joining us on this episode, Dr. Conklin! You can find all of Dr. Conklin's books and his podcast on his page on HOP Hub . Dr. Conklin and Jen will be speaking at the next Conklin Conference in Santa Fe, NM from September 10th-September 12th 2024. You can sign up for the conference . Thank you so much for listening! Make sure to check out the video cast under the "Videos" tab! Connect with Jen on and visit her website Connect with Sandi on and visit her website Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Leave us a comment on LinkedIn! /episode/index/show/otkungfu/id/32357197