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 wh

46 - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Teams: A Red Teaming Review

Apr 19th, 2024 39m 25s

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 S

45 - The Customer Experience and a Coaching Approach with Dan Coldwell

Feb 23rd, 2024 47m 9s

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

44 - Transformational Leadership with Cara Cameron

Jan 25th, 2024 42m 57s

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 Resourc

43 - Change Starts with You

Dec 28th, 2023 33m 43s

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 d

42 - Leveraging Mastermind Groups to Grow Yourself and Your Business with Julie Ellis

Dec 12th, 2023 38m 9s

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 differe

41 - Strong Leaders Know They Are Imperfect

Nov 9th, 2023 29m 47s

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 th

40 - Leadership Training at the Top

Oct 4th, 2023 24m 58s

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

39 - Psychological Safety and Accountability

Aug 2nd, 2023 28m 6s

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

38 - Getting Results from DEI Efforts

Jul 6th, 2023 30m 33s

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

37 - Meeting Disciplines

Jun 1st, 2023 26m 48s

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 reflect

36 - Coaching Leaders

May 3rd, 2023 35m 55s

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 mod

35 - Establishing Teams and Team Norms

Apr 12th, 2023 36m 44s

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, C

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Mar 3rd, 2023 38m 40s

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 p

Leading in Stressful Times

Feb 23rd, 2023 33m 5s

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 hy

Retention

Feb 10th, 2023 31m 25s

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

Strategic Whiplash

Jan 27th, 2023 36m 14s

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

Neuroscience of Accountability

May 20th, 2022 38m 52s

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 Certifi

Own Up! Drama Free Accountability

Mar 20th, 2022 41m 26s

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 Lea

Better Communication thru Better Listening

Mar 5th, 2022 36m 13s

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

Getting Clear on Vision

Feb 22nd, 2022 35m 51s

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

Own Your Career

Dec 22nd, 2021 44m 44s

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 Her

Self-Directed Teams

Dec 11th, 2021 35m 57s

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

Leading With Empathy

Sep 30th, 2021 34m

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 w

The Hybrid Workplace Challenge

Jul 8th, 2021 40m 48s

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 ha