Red Currant Collective helps Thinkydoers® and status quo challengers unblock, align and mobilize their resources to achieve the inconceivable.
Zero-hassle OKR Training for individuals and organizations
With OKR Master Coach, Sara Lobkovich
OKR Master Coach
Creator of the Evolutionary/No-BS OKRs approach to Objectives and Key Results
Founder and Principal Coach / Consultant, Red Currant Collective
Creator, Thinkydoers
No-Hassle OKR Training & Support for your Organization
Now available:
OKR Training
On-Demand OKR Training
Customized for your needs
Are you ready to take your organization's performance to new heights with OKRs?
We are thrilled to offer a remarkable solution for clients seeking OKR enablement at scale. Within just a few weeks, we can tailor one of our exceptional standard trainings or asynchronous workshops to fit your environment. The process includes customized videos and other learning media, and hosting via a dedicated instance of our corporate Learning Management System (LMS), exclusively for your organization.
With our OKR Training program, you can provide your team members with access to a range of courses, including:
Introduction to OKRs
Creating OKRs Workshop
Leading Evolutionary OKRs
Aligned Individual Goal-Setting
And more!
If you've been considering OKR enablement at scale, don't hesitate to reach out. Let us show you how we can make the process super easy for you. Schedule a quick consult to take the first step toward unlocking your organization's full potential with OKRs.
“This approach takes a lot of the ambiguity out of the process of building OKRs and it distills the concepts so that they’re digestible and easy to understand. I feel much more confident about my ability to create outcomes that will lead to transformation, rather than outcomes that simply serve as checkboxes.”
A.E.,
(Nov 2023 No BS OKRs Cohort)
“Thank you so much Sara, for an amazing class. I will be looking out for your classes more in the future. I always find your content easy to learn, fun to participate in, and achievable. I love your teaching style.”
A.G.,
(Nov 2023 No BS OKRs Cohort)
Professional Objectives and Key Results (OKR) training enables your leaders and teams to participate fully in goal-setting, with their focus on critical thinking, discussion, and decision, not on the details of facilitating the session, time management, and note-taking.
Our highly trained and skilled OKR Master Coach and OKR Trainer, Sara Lobkovich, works with senior leaders and their reports to help them learn by doing, ensuring leaders and teams learn best practices while they work, and ensuring that the leader and team own the goals they set.
Our OKR trainings are interactive, workshop-based learning experiences, not boring classroom sessions. In most trainings, you start with a blank sheet of paper, and end with a finished product: a One-Page Strategic Input, or, a completed or draft set of Objectives and Key Results.
It can be challenging to learn how to create OKRs by reading conflicting books, blog posts, and articles (many of which are promoted or published by commercial organizations that make money based on large deployments — e.g. how many software seats your organization requires, in the case of OKR platforms). Our platform-agnostic approach to OKR training makes sure your organization achieves methodology success and is yielding return on your OKR investment before you’re investing in expensive OKR tracking software that may (or may not) actually help you achieve your impact goals.
Participants leave our OKR trainings with a draft of their OKRs and direction on how to finish them, and typically have options for follow-up feedback via our course communities, live office hours, and/or 1:1 sessions with Sara (depending on the course).
Our OKR Training can help you:
Write OKRs that help your organization efficiently achieve your strategic plan
Ensure that your team owns the goals they set
Learn the essentials of OKRs
Connect the dots between strategy and implementation, so that every person in your organization knows how their work matters.
If you're interested in learning more about our OKR training, or working with one, please contact us.
About OKR Training
Learn OKRs with Sara Lobkovich
What is an OKR Coach?
An OKR coach is a specially-trained professional who helps organizations create, adopt and apply OKRs successfully. They guide teams through the OKR process, facilitate workshops, provide feedback, and monitor progress. They also help create a mindset shift from output to outcome, from activity to impact, and from silos to alignment.
An OKR coach can work within an organization as an internal OKR champion, or offer OKR coaching services to external clients as a consultant or freelancer. Either way, an OKR coach needs to master the skills and knowledge required for this role. They need to learn how to design, communicate, and execute OKRs in different contexts and scenarios. They also need to develop their coaching and leadership abilities to inspire and empower others.
I believe every Changemaker deserves a clear path to impact.
Empower Change
Skip the chaos and dive straight into effective, impactful, goal-setting.
Boost Innovation
Foster a culture that values experimentation and creative solutions.
Quantify Success
Learn to measure change impact beyond financial metrics.
Meet OKR Training Pro, Sara Lobkovich
OKR training for when people and performance matter
Sara Lobkovich is an OKR Coach and strategic impact consultant who works primarily with senior leaders tackling transformative change. She focuses on serving organizations where important outcomes extend beyond just financial measures: in industries like healthcare, education, automotive and motorsport, aviation, organizations and teams must manage high performance and sometimes high risk to drive successful outcomes on human terms in order to maintain and grow their financial position. Sara works with clients in all industries, who share those characteristics.
Sara's trained 2,000+ OKR Coaches in 300+ organizations, and has lead 500+ hours of group facilitated OKR coaching sessions for organizations from the Fortune 500 to solopreneurs.
Have questions? We’d love to hear them: email Sara directly.
Want individualized feedback and a high level of ongoing support?
Check out my new Unblock Your Inner Strategist program, which provides access to Building No-BS OKRs… and more!
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Rough-cut excerpt from an interview with Sung Park. Our founder, Sara Lobkovich, was delighted to be featured in this in-progress series of conversations about what people love about their work.
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OKR Training for strategic impact with a side of systemic change.
We work primarily with senior leaders tackling transformative change. In this interview by Sung Park, you’ll hear why our founder, Sara Lobkovich, loves her work (and you’ll learn why she describes herself as an "OKR activist" and "corporate rebel").
OKRs are about increasing organizational performance and results: and OKRs, done with integrity, help organizations improve inclusion, belonging, and increase well-being and humane conditions in the workplace. We love what we do because this work helps increase objectivity in our measures of success, and create more equitable workplaces as a result.
Want to Become an OKR Coach with Red Currant Collective?
If you want to become an OKR coach, choose a reputable OKR education provider. Red Currant Collective can help you achieve your OKR coaching goals. We offer a comprehensive OKR coach training program that covers everything you need to know to become a confident and competent OKR coach, specifically focused on the Evolutionary OKR methodology for application in high-change, innovation, and transformation organizations.
Our program includes:
Live and video-based training that teaches you the fundamentals and advanced concepts of OKRs, as well as the tools and techniques for OKR coaching.
Live workshops that give you hands-on practice and feedback on setting and reviewing OKRs with real-world examples and case studies.
Practice coaching sessions that help you apply your learning to your own projects and challenges, and receive personalized guidance and support from our experienced OKR coaches.
Some people complete our Coaching Evolutionary OKRs course to obtain the deepest possible learning about Evolutionary OKRs. Others go on to complete a competency evaluation to earn the title of “Evolutionary OKR Coach.”
Whether you want to become an OKR coach for your own organization, or become an Evolutionary OKR Coach to offer coaching services to clients, Coaching Evolutionary OKRs will prepare you for success. You will learn how to:
Coach the creation and implementation of OKRs in any organization, from startups to enterprises, from nonprofits to government agencies.
Align OKRs across different levels, functions, and teams, and ensure everyone is working towards the same vision and mission.
The basics of quantifying OKRs using relevant and reliable metrics and key results, and track progress using dashboards and reports.
Review and update OKRs regularly, and celebrate wins and learn from failures.
Coach and mentor others on how to use OKRs effectively, and overcome common OKR challenges and pitfalls.
Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration around OKRs, and foster a growth mindset and a feedback loop.
How we work
We’re strategists, in a corporate-rebel coach way
True coaching is a client-driven partnership. Our superpower is creating space and comfort with the truth: and asking the questions that help any team in any organization arrive at it. We’re corporate rebels who choose to focus on corporate workplaces to maximize harm reduction and impact at scale. We work more as thought-partners: we can give advice, if you want it, but the best results come more from the questions we ask than the answers we share.
Our goal is client self-sufficiency
First, we align on what success means (together). Then, we build the plan to get there and support your goal achievement. Typically our role is to help you and your team work better together, so we bring a blend of coaching, learning & development and facilitation tools to the table so that you and your team become self-supporting over time.
We’re curious and intuitive executive leaders
Our natural curiosity means we spot opportunities to bring in new and diverse viewpoints to help solve both new and old problems. Our Collective lets us tap subject matter experts across a broad swath of subject matter areas and points of view, to make sure that questions are considered from all angles and nobody is left behind.
People call Red Currant Collective when something needs to change. When “we need to be more strategic about this.” When there just has to be a better way.
In times of crisis and challenge, we’re who you want by your side. And we’re even more valuable upstream: we spot issues and craft opportunities to change course for the better before trouble becomes unavoidable.
We are status-quo challengers, rebels and instigators who see the ways the world around us can be shifted to be more just, equitable and healthy for all.
We are Thinkydoers®: motivated as much by questions as answers, wired for deep work, and we aren’t satisfied with thought experiments. Our insights drive impact.
Do we sound difficult? We are. No doubt about it. In the best ways.
And because we’re propelled by curiosity, empathy, and work with joy,
doing difficult things together is fun.
Impact. For good.
Sara Lobkovich, J.D.
Principal Consultant, OKR Master Coach
Sara works with a passion for helping leaders and teams understand their strengths and achieve peak performance. She enjoys a long, entrepreneurial career in technology, law, marketing / advertising, strategic ops and organizational learning and change.
Her work builds on well-honed expertise leading adult learning, instructional design, marketing, creative strategy and strategic operations at some of the world’s largest enterprises, and in public sector and political roles.
Her highest and best use is in high-stakes, high-consequence work where change is not optional.
She is a professional OKR Trainer and OKR Coach Trainer, trained in conflict resolution and mediation, and is also a professional well-being coach who brings a focus on human wellness, psychological safety and trust to her work helping organizations and leaders achieve their goals.
For more information about Sara, find her on LinkedIn, and her speaker profile is on SpeakerHub.