Close Your Strategy Execution Gap
Enable every person in your organization to make better decisions and maximize progress toward what matters most:
Your mission.
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CEOs and CxOs on a mission
You need your organization to be more strategic, because your measures of success don’t start and stop at the bottom line. You’re trying to move the needle on customer and product experiences, and other human outcomes. That takes a different kind of strategy.
Strategic facilitation, OKR coaching, and leadership and career development for:
Chiefs of Staff, Ops + Strategy leads, and other “force multipliers”
You want to uplevel your strategy skills and help your organization achieve more — with less waste, burnout, and frustration. You’re in the right place
Work when you’re “wired differently”
Do your identity, values, or cognitive style feel at odds with mainstream business culture, leaving you feeling like a “mis-fit” at work?
Why Strategy Fails in Execution
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Leadership achieves "alignment" in the boardroom, but strategy doesn't translate into what teams need to execute day-to-day.
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Without clear decision-making frameworks that make sense for everyone in the organization, every choice feels like guesswork—and progress gets blocked.
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Static strategies can't adapt to volatile markets, leaving organizations scrambling to react instead of staying ahead.
If somewhere between 67% and 90% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution, how can you ensure yours is on the right side of that equation?
You don't need more strategy, or another plan. You need a decision-making advantage that actually holds when reality happens.
How It Works
Get Clear on What Matters
Transform competing priorities into a single strategic framework everyone can use to make better decisions.
Embed Strategic Behavior
Ongoing support and real-time coaching help leaders make better decisions in the moment—turning insight into action and enabling them to lead by example.
Scale the Advantage
Efficiency gains and embedded practices free your team to focus on high-impact work more independently—so leadership can focus on growth, not firefighting.
What We’ll Achieve Together
Increase Employee Engagement & Investment
Boost engagement and clarity.
Turn strategy into daily decisions so employees know exactly how their work connects to what matters most.
Improve Human-Centered Performance Gains
Healthy high performance.
Improve leadership capacity, focus, and team health while hitting your most important human-impact metrics.
Increase Efficiency Without Human Cost
More of what matters.
Free up capacity with smart automation and aligned priorities — without burning people out.
Strategy Services for Business Unusual
Your operating environment is volatile. Your strategic execution approach shouldn’t be.
Old-school strategic planning wasn’t built for this level of operating uncertainty. Leaders and force multipliers need nimble, practical decision support—frameworks for focus, clarity, and action—not just more slides that sit on a shelf.
⭐️ Sara’s Signature Program for Alignment and Strategic Decision Support⭐️
The Strategic Execution Advantage
Align priorities. Make better decisions. Drive measurable results.
Immediate strategic focus and clear expectations
On-call decision support when you need it most
Monthly measurable outcomes to prove progress
Flexible month-to-month engagement — no lock-in
Built for leaders and force multipliers in mid-size organizations who need alignment and impact fast. Because you don’t need more strategy — you need everyone making better decisions every day.
Quick, As-Needed Spot Support
Ask Me Anything Strategy Session
Get clear and focused, fast.
One solution-focused hour
Solve a pressing challenge
Gain actionable insights from decades of transformation work
Perfect if you’re not ready for the full program but want expert guidance on your most pressing strategic or leadership challenge.
Applied strategy that translates into real results
About Your Strategy Facilitator:
Sara Lobkovich
Sara Lobkovich is a strategy innovator, OKR Master Coach, and the creator of the No-BS OKRs methodology. With over 16 years of executive leadership experience in complex creative and technical environments, Sara brings a unique blend of pragmatic wisdom and innovative thinking to strategic planning and goal achievement.
Author of the "No-BS OKRs Workbook" and "You Are A Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done" (an Amazon Top New Release in Management Skills, and Strategic Management)
Board-certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) focused on work/life wellness and evidence-based approaches to behavior change
Sara's approach resonates particularly with analytical minds, introverted leaders, and organizations seeking measurable, meaningful change. Her mission is to help every change-maker find clarity, alignment, and fulfillment in their strategic journey.
By the Numbers
Lead OKR methodology roll-outs for teams from 1-4,000+ from solopreneurs to the Fortune 500
1000+ hours of OKR workshop facilitation experience; 75-100+ more each quarter
Average a 96% positive response rate in post-experience exit surveys for coaching, consulting, & offsite facilitation
HUMANE HIGH-IMPACT STRATEGY SUPPORT
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Month-to-month strategy support to drive employee engagement, customer results, and a culture of learning and accountability.
Results-focused practices for people who want to actually do better
(not just make numbers look good)
I work with:
Leaders, chiefs of staff, and other force multipliers and strategic operators focused on improving human experiences and outcomes.
Who need:
Efficient, effective ways to quickly align and measurably improve performance.
I help them:
Make more strategic decisions, by distilling the most important information teams need to execute down to a single piece of paper
Establish a shared language for high-performance goal setting, from the CEO to the summer intern
Improve employee engagement and impact by connecting the dots on how their work matters.
No-BS Strategic Execution
Strategy built by executives and consultants looks great on slides, but rarely answers the questions necessary for people who actually do the work.
We build strategic decision and action support from the bottom up, starting with the three questions teams most need answers to that most strategic plans fail to answer.
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Strategies are often aspirational, usually lengthy documents that communicate insights and plans — but rarely with prioritization clear enough to meet the needs of executional teams. It’s also common for leaders to struggle when asked point blank for prioritization clarity, because “everything is a priority.”
Starting with “What’s most important” means we start with a blank page and identify priorities from there instead of starting with a list and prioritizing it.
If a goal, initiative, or project doesn’t come up during a “What’s most important” conversation, that doesn’t mean it’s not important — plenty of run-the-business work won’t be top of mind — but it does mean that it’s not likely a critical growth, transformation, or innovation effort that demands an OKR.
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When strategies do clearly identify what’s most important, they rarely answer the important next question:
“Why does that matter?”
That question and its answer provide vital information to guide implementation — clarity that teams can use to inform their decisionmaking. Aligning on the “why” also gives everyone in the organization a better understanding of their shared purpose, and helps connect the dots on why the work matters.
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It’s rare to see objectively measurable goals as a routine part of strategic implementation plans. When goals are present, they often lack sufficient detail — are they mandatory or stretch goals? Are they truly measurable (and instrumented for measurement)?
For an analogy: in athletics, teams are fundamentally aligned through focus on the “win” they’re aiming to achieve. They work together toward objective progress goals to inform training and preparation, toward readiness to “win.”
In business, too often, teams receive an assignment or kick off a project with a brief that’s focused on activity — what’s to be done — and the only progress data is the subjective estimation of percentage complete.
When businesses set and align goals like a sports team, they align on what might be incredible to achieve (what “winning” might mean); and what progress benchmarks they’re aiming to achieve — and which signal whether they’re on or off track (in the form of empirically measurable progress goals).
Aligning on what it might mean to succeed wildly lets teams build their map toward the same destination, together.
The Connected Strategic Stack
Bridge the gap between vision and results with a one-page strategy you’ll actually use.
Do you know your Strategy-to-Execution Score?
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A ten-minute introduction to No-BS OKRs, starting with the very basics.
What are OKRs?
Check out my YouTube playlist answering some of the most frequently-asked question about OKRs. Have questions of your own? Send them to me, and I may feature them in a future video!
No-BS OKRs
Create clear expectations and an inspired objective definition of progress and success… whether you’re leading from a support role in a small organization, or a Fortune 100 CEO.
DIY WITH STEP-BY-STEP GUIDANCE