About Red Currant Collective: What We Do

Strategy, Leadership & OKR Speaking and Event Facilitation

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Engaging keynotes on OKRs and strategic leadership

  • Interactive workshops to kickstart your OKR journey

  • Customized event facilitation for team alignment and goal-setting

Strategy & OKR Coaching

Including OKR methodology adoption support

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One-on-one coaching for executives, team leaders, and other key strategic operators

  • OKR methodology adoption support for your entire organization

  • Strategic planning and execution guidance

  • Ongoing support to refine and optimize your OKR implementation

Turn-Key and Custom Leadership, Career Fulfillment, and OKR Training

Comprehensive OKR training programs for all organizational levels

  • Leadership development focused on strategic impact and execution

  • Customized workshops blending OKRs with your unique organizational needs

  • Self-paced and live online learning options

Red Currant Collective helps Thinkydoers®️ and status quo challengers unblock, align and mobilize their resources to achieve the inconceivable.

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About your OKR Pro:

Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC

Sara Lobkovich is a seasoned strategist, 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.

Key Highlights:

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.

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.

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Impact. For good.

Our Values

Intellectual Humility

Equity

Excellence

Growth

Belonging

Ownership

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“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 upcoming book, You Are A Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done (join the pre-launch list 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.

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  1. Organizational goal-setting and alignment;

  2. Rhythms of business for goal and strategy attainment; and

  3. Leader development to increase employee engagement, retention, and investment.

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.

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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.

Curious to connect?

Email us at hello at redcurrantco.com.

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This six-page guide takes you through a distilled version of the entire No-BS OKRs process, from ideation about what might be incredible to achieve, to give you the easiest possible start with No-BS OKRs and increase your odds of goal achievement by creating a behavior change commitment for yourself.

This guide includes worksheets that walk you through creating an OKR and a behavior change plan to support OKR achievement in only 30 minutes.

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