Sandi Verrecchia and Jennifer T Long, Business coaches
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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long translate leadership theory into practical questions about strategy, accountability, succession and team decision-making.
Leadership Kung Fu turns organizational leadership problems into working conversations between Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long. Strategy execution, succession planning, new-leader development and team problem-solving all receive the same treatment: identify the behavior behind…
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Critical thinking comes through as a leadership habit, not an extra.
Leadership starts to slip when managers do too much of the thinking for their teams. Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long make that point concrete by tying strategy to the everyday work of checking assumptions, weighing impact, and pushing past the first decent answer.
Fear can make leaders reactive, while clear judgment keeps them strategic.
This episode treats leadership as a test of nerve under uncertainty. Sandy Varekia and Jen Long keep returning to the same practical standard: stay tied to values, keep a clear head, and do not let the moment do the thinking for you.
Strategy matters most when teams stay aligned and avoid duplicating work.
Sandy Varekia and Jen Long treat strategy as something people do, not something they announce. The episode keeps its focus on aligned action and on cutting out duplicate work, which makes the argument easy to follow.
A practical mid-year check-in for leaders who want clearer habits and an honest read on their own management.
Leadership Kung Fu treats a mid-year check-in as a plain audit of how someone is leading right now. Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long ask whether the goals still hold, whether the current strategy still fits the year, and whether it is time for a reset instead of waiting for one…
A practical look at succession planning, where clarity matters more than assumptions.
The episode treats succession planning as plain leadership work, with Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long focusing on readiness, the shifting nature of lists, and the value of telling people exactly where they stand.
A candid look at what happens when leading means letting the group work.
Leadership is presented as a working habit rather than a slogan. Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long push against the old top-down boss model and recast leadership as something that happens when leaders let the group do real work together.
A grounded conversation about helping new leaders step up, with a strong detour into imposter syndrome and self-coaching.
Leadership Kung Fu looks at the early stretch of leadership, when companies need new managers and those managers need more than a pep talk. Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long focus on what support actually looks like for people stepping into new roles, especially when the…
Hybrid work comes through as a leadership problem, not just a scheduling one.
This episode treats hybrid work less as a scheduling argument and more as a test of leadership judgment. Sandy Varekia and Jen Long keep asking what problem leaders are trying to solve when they push for office time, especially while layoffs, job insecurity, and tariff…
Tyler Selhorn interviews remote-work founders and researchers on building distributed team culture.
Adi Ignatius and Alison Beard interview scholars and executives on management and AI.
Fear makes leaders twitchy.
Sandy Varekia and Jen Long revisit the idea that strategy is not a deck.
Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long dig into succession planning and what happens when leaders keep avoiding it.
Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long come back from vacation with a mid-year leadership check-in.
Jennifer Long and Sandy Varekia dig into a familiar leadership failure: teams that stop thinking and start waiting.
Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long start with a scene many leadership teams know well: the meeting feels productive, the heads are nodding, and nothing changes afterward.
First Moves Matter opens with the challenge of helping a new leader start well.
Strategy falls apart when the work underneath it does not line up.
Hosts Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long explore conscious unbossing, a leadership shift where Gen Z challenges traditional top-down models in favor of purpose-driven, collaborative approaches.
Sandy Varekia and Jennifer Long discuss the challenges of leading hybrid and remote teams, focusing on the tension between return-to-office mandates and employee preferences.