Red Currant Collective helps Thinkydoers™ and status quo challengers unblock, align and mobilize their resources to achieve the inconceivable.
“How did you get so into OKRs?”
There is no single question I get asked more often than that one. I shared part of the story in a preview of the first chapter of my upcoming book, The Evolutionary OKR Playbook.
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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Organizational goal-setting and alignment;
Rhythms of business for goal and strategy attainment; and
Leader development to increase employee engagement, retention, and investment.
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 thinky-doers: 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.
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 + Thinkydoers
Sara Lobkovich, J.D.
Principal Consultant
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 an OKR Master Coach and OKR Coach Trainer, trained in conflict resolution and mediation, and is 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. She hosts the Thinkydoers podcast and makes regular guest and media appearances as an expert on organizational goal-setting and achievement, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), mobilizing teams for peak performance using motivation science, and best practices for self-management for leaders and their teams. She’s the creator of the Evolutionary OKRs approach to Objectives and Key Results, which helps organizations and people set and achieve meaningful goals when people matter.
By the numbers
15+ years of professional experience and advanced multidisciplinary training inform our core curriculum on the Connected Strategic™ Organization
10+ years of executive strategic leadership in complex creative and technical environments
Named an OKR Master Coach in 2021
Trained 2,000+ OKR coaches in 300+ organizations globally
500+ hours of professional OKR workshop facilitation
Lead OKR methodology roll-outs for teams from 1 to 4,000+
For more information about Sara, find her on LinkedIn, and her speaker profile is on SpeakerHub.
Who is Sara Lobkovich,
OKR Coach?
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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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.