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Leadership Kung Fu

Leadership Kung Fu

By: Sandi Verrecchia and Jennifer T Long Business coaches
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Summary

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.Satori Consulting Inc and OwnUp LLC® - All rights reserved Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • 68 - Disagree and Commit: Real Dissent, Psychological Safety and Accountability in Action
    May 7 2026

    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!

    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 over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel!
    Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
    Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

    Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@dramafreeworkforce.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn.

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    38 mins
  • 67 - Expectation Drift: How Vague Leadership Breaks Execution
    Mar 31 2026

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

    and much more!

    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 over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel!
    Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
    Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

    Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

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    41 mins
  • 66 - Stop Outsourcing Thinking: Rebuilding Your Team's Problem-Solving Muscles
    Feb 27 2026

    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!

    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 over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel!
    Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
    Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

    Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

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    43 mins
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