Strategic achievement with Strategist and
OKR Coach Sara Lobkovich
Sara Lobkovich is a strategy coach and OKR activist who works with:
CEOs and their right-hand staff who need to right-track an organization and make big culture and performance change … yesterday!
Chiefs of Staff and Program Leaders who want to uplevel their strategy skills and help their organization achieve more — with less waste, burnout, and frustration.
And, people who feel like a “square peg” at work or in their careers: when their identity, values, or cognitive style feel at odds with mainstream business culture, leaving them feeling like a “mis-fit” at work.
Sara brings Rebelutionary® practices to replace performance-sapping shame, blame, and all-or-nothing mindsets about goal setting with psychologically-safe, motivating approaches centered on curiosity, experimentation, and learning.
Sara is an industry-recognized 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, and specialized training and experience as a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (which has given her a deep skillset around facilitating behavior change), Sara brings a unique blend of pragmatic wisdom and innovative thinking to strategic planning and goal achievement.
Key Highlights:
Trained 2,000+ OKR Coaches across 300+ global organizations
Author of the Amazon Top New Release "You Are A Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done", and the "No-BS OKRs Workbook"
Board-certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) focused on work/life wellness and evidence-based approaches to behavior change
Host of the Thinkydoers Podcast
Sara's approach resonates particularly with analytical minds, introverted leaders, and organizations seeking measurable, meaningful change. Her mission is to help every changemaker find clarity, alignment, and fulfillment in their strategic journey.
16+
Years as an executive leader in complex creative & technical environments
OKR Master Coach & OKR Mentor
(certified by a leading major OKR platform
and, by OKRMentors.com)
2000+
OKR Coaches trained in 300+ organizations globally
Are No-BS OKRs
right for your organization?
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“There has to be a better way.”
If there is one phrase I’ve spent more of my career thinking, it’s that one.
I got my first taste of successful activism when I was nine years old. Now, I have language to say that I’m “justice sensitive,” and over the course of the three decades of my career and counting, I’ve had several careers but have always been a status quo challenger.
Never rebellious for rebelliousness’s sake — I’m actually still a lawyer and rule-follower. Rather, I can’t help but see the ways the world can be less biased, more equitable, and more effectively designed to support human potential rather than as focused on power, privilege, and control as the workplace has been for too long.
I got lucky to find my way into my life’s work in strategy; and then hit the jackpot when I stumbled into the field of coaching. The intersection of the two lets me live and practice my stregths every day. I ask good questions, surface sometimes-uncomfortable but important truths, and help clients develop the intellectual humility, emotional regulation, and deliberate curiosity to help them get clear, focused, and aligned on goals that actually matter. And I go a step further than most strategists: we don’t stop at goal setting; I work with clients to architect and achieve behavior change to increase their odds of goal attainment. Because what good are strategic goals if we write them, and then go back to business as usual?
We don’t stop at goal setting… because what good are strategic goals if we write them, then go back to business as usual?
I've dedicated my career to creating systems and frameworks that make strategy simple, clear, and accessible. I believe that strategy is a mechanism for shared understanding: a way for people to become aware of their mental shortcuts — heuristics — and a mechanism for closing heuristics gaps that might otherwise keep us separate and lacking shared understanding. I develop leader and career development approaches that increase clarity of expectations, collaborative alignment, and shared undertanding. My practices honor how different people actually think and work differently, rather than forcing square pegs into round holes.
This drive has shaped everything from how I approach strategy to how I build teams—recognizing that the most brilliant innovations often come from those who see the world a bit differently from everyone else.
Strategy is a mechanism for shared understanding.
“[You Are A Strategist] will be a game-changing book for neurodivergent brains.”
-S. Katherine Sanders AACG
ADHD Coach + Strategist
“You Are a Strategist”
is now available
eBook on sale now, with print launching May 6th!
Impact. For good.
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 our purpose, values, curiosity, and empathy, we work with joy, and
doing difficult things together is fun.
“How did you get so into OKRs?”
There is no single question I am asked more often than that one. I shared part of the story in a preview of the first chapter of my book, You Are A Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done (Book info is here!).
And there’s a more personal, activist answer, too:
I spent the first 20+ years of my career overachieving to compensate for being baffled by corporate workplace expectations. When I transitioned into executive leadership myself, determined to not repeat that pattern, I started using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to create clearer definitions of success and progress for my team and my own personal work.
Deciding on and working toward my own objective measures of progress and success increased my confidence, resilience, and career satisfaction; and helped reduce my emotional reactivity and frustration in my work. OKRs helped me become a better and more balanced leader, and now I’d love to share my toolkit with you.
Sara Lobkovich is the founder and principal consultant of Red Currant Collective, LLC.
How we work:
We’re consultants, in a corporate-rebel coach kind of 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, intuitive, and focused on well-being
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.
Red Currant Collective helps Thinkydoers® and Rebelutionary® Leaders unblock, align and mobilize their resources to achieve the inconceivable.
RCCO’s Values
These values aren't just about doing good - they're about performing better. When people can bring their full selves to work, when bias is replaced with empirical clarity, when truth is valued over power, privilege, or politics; and when everyone has both the accountability and authority to drive change, organizations achieve unprecedented levels of strategic achievement, sustained performance, and positive human impact.
Continuous Improvement
We foster a culture of continuous learning and personal development, where curiousity is encouraged and intellectual humility is expected.
Equity & Justice
We are actively focused on improving equity and justice in our workplace systems and practices.
Candor
The truth is our business (literally), and we build systems and practices to increase candor, conflict handling skills, and resilience in every relationship we touch.
Inclusion & Belonging
We are a diverse and inclusive organization made up of global citizens; we practice inclusion -- the verb -- in everything we do.
Activism
Systems don’t change without individual and collective acts of courage. Our work is applied, not theoretical, to achieve necessary systemic change.
Ownership
We take responsibility for our impact, embrace agency in creating change, and honor the shuman labor by ensuring every person has clear accountability and the authority and agency to match.
Inclusion & Equity Statement
I believe that workplaces are institutions where we can actively and intentionally create the systemic change (and joy) we wish to see in the world—including dismantling white supremacy and the systemic inequity it upholds.
Spaces hosted by Sara Lobkovich and Red Currant Collective are designed to center and uplift introverts, disabled and neurodivergent people, and people with other historically marginalized identities. We create welcoming and affirming spaces for people all across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum—explicitly including transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, neuroqueer, and gender non-conforming individuals, including people who are questioning, exploring, or at any stage of transition or gender expression. Everyone who is committed to creating inclusive, affirming spaces has a seat at the table.
This isn't just a statement—it's literally how we work. I'm committed to creating frameworks and practices that increase access to meaningful and satisfying careers, and that help everyone achieve meaningful impact while being fully and wholly themselves.
Traditional goal-setting, strategic planning, performance evaluation, and incentivization processes have often reinforced inequity through subjective evaluation, bias, and power dynamics. My approach is different: I use clear, accessible, and objective frameworks grounded in curiosity and learning—not judgment, shame, or blame. The goal is to remove barriers and create pathways to success for all.
If you have any accessibility needs or accommodations that would help you engage more fully with my services, please contact me. I'm committed to making my work accessible and welcoming, and I value opportunities to learn and improve.