FlyingPenguins Inc

We’re delighted to welcome Kate Cockrill, MPH, PCC as a Certified FlyingPenguins Facilitator! Kate is a facilitator, coach, and trainer who helps teams and leaders reach ambitious goals through team development, leadership development, and career coaching. She brings the listening and growth mindset of a coach, the energy of an entrepreneur, and the analytical lens of a social scientist to every engagement — with a strong commitment to creating equitable and inclusive environments where people feel heard and empowered. As an Professional Certified Coach (ICF)—plus extensive training in transformational coaching, facilitative leadership, change management, and leading through complexity—Kate is brilliantly equipped to guide teams through FlyingPenguins’ unique blend of behavioral science, DISC insights, AI-driven simulations, and experiential learning. We’re thrilled to welcome her into our certified facilitators community and can’t wait to see the impact she’ll make. Welcome aboard, Kate! #FlyingPenguins #TeamPerformance #DISC #LeadershipDevelopment #Collaboration #TeamBuilding #SkillDevelopment

Facilitators, coaches, and consultants — if you’re looking to deepen your impact and expand your reach, join us for our upcoming webinar. 📅 December 9, 2025 🕚 11:00 AM CT We’ll share how FlyingPenguins combines DISC, AI practice, and facilitation to help groups build collaboration skills that stick. Reserve your seat: https://lnkd.in/eEcfGg5j

"Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path." Joseph Campbell

We teamed up with Simon Blanchette to dig into a bigger question: as AI gets better at producing output, where does human value actually move? Human skills aren't the soft stuff anymore, they're the infrastructure of better work. Swipe through, then read the full report 👇

"Will AI leave me out of a job?” This is the question echoing through teams everywhere today, and it’s not fading. Recent Gallup data shows that Gen Z’s sentiment towards AI has shifted sharply in the past year with excitement falling 14 points, and anxiety remaining high at 42%. As generative AI becomes a part of everyday work, employees are increasingly questioning their job security, relevant skills, and where their careers are headed next. When teams are navigating this level of uncertainty, disengagement tends to emerge. But this disengagement is not driven by adapting to the difficulty of learning something new, it comes from feeling uninformed, unheard, and underprepared. So what should managers do? 1. Address AI anxiety directly. Pretending AI is not disruptive does not make your team feel any more stable. Instead, it makes the change feel more unclear, distant, and threatening. 2. Help your team build familiarity through hands-on practice. Comfort with AI relies on giving your team a space to try, reflect, and understand how these tools can fit into their work instead of replacing it. 3. Create conversations to debrief practice. Hands-on practice only sticks when followed by conversation. After your team tries something new, create room to talk about what feels useful, uncomfortable, confusing, or uncertain. Conversation is how anxiety gets named, addressed, and worked through. This is exactly where human skills become critical. At FlyingPenguins, we help managers practice conversations that define moments of change. When leaders strengthen their own human skills, that confidence, clarity, and ability to listen carries into the entire team. The future of work is not only shaped by efficiency and speed, but by the teams that know how to communicate, adapt, and align when change strikes.

We’re thrilled to be working with Jinso Labs, a groundbreaking EdTech start-up helping shape the future of learning. In a fast-moving entrepreneurial context, teams need more than knowledge. They need ways to turn insight into aligned action, stronger collaboration, and better decisions. That’s exactly where FlyingPenguins comes in: helping bridge the gap between knowledge and behavior. Thank you to Jay Lee-Gopalan and the Jinso Labs team for the trust and partnership. #FlyingPenguins #JinsoLabs #EdTech #WorkplaceCollaboration #LeadershipDevelopment #LearningAndDevelopment