Podcast Feature: Mastering Powerful Goal Setting

Jan 29

Sara Lobkovich on The True You Podcast with Paula Burns

Published on: January 29, 2025

In the impactful episode "Mastering Powerful Goal Setting" of The True You Podcast with Paula Burns, Sara Lobkovich brings her distinctive expertise as a strategy coach and self-proclaimed "goal nerd" to transform how listeners approach achievement and strategic planning. As the author of the upcoming "No-BS OKRs Workbook" and "You Are A Strategist," Lobkovich shares refreshingly direct insights on how unconventional leaders and status-quo challenging organizations can set clear goals, maintain focus, and build cultures of growth, learning, and high performance—without sacrificing authenticity. Drawing from her specialized experience working with introverted, neurodivergent, and non-traditional business leaders, she reveals powerful frameworks for harnessing one's inner strategist without resorting to masking or self-abandonment. The conversation explores Lobkovich's human-centered methodology for implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), challenging conventional wisdom around goal setting that often creates unnecessary suffering and disconnection. With characteristic directness, she provides listeners with practical techniques for creating alignment between strategic vision and daily action, emphasizing empirical clarity over subjective evaluation. This episode delivers exceptional value for leaders who feel like "square pegs" in traditional business environments, program managers seeking to uplevel their strategy skills, and organizations committed to driving meaningful change while honoring the authentic strengths of their teams.