Sara Lobkovich
Strategy execution and OKRs coach; author focused on turning strategy into usable operating plans without burning people out.
Mid‑career Men Often Prioritize Spouse over Leadership Growth
It's been awhile since I've had 1:1 exec coaching clients, but I'm working with a couple of client orgs where leader dev is part of the performance improvement puzzle. And what never, ever, gets old for me as a career and leadership development coach, is how many of the mid- and late-career men I work with in a coaching capacity are 100% dyed in the wool Wife/Spouse Guys.
Finding a Doctor Who Gets Rare Post‑COVID Conditions
OK faith in the humans of modern medicine restored. Bad: My insurance company sent me to an urgent care that doesn’t accept my insurance. Good: The second one we tried did. Doc comes in, and when I said: “Post-COVID Dysautonomia and MCAS,”...
AI Scraper Detected, Account Suspended without Login
I’ve seen a few posts about building AI-powered post scrapers for the business-focused social platform that shall remain nameless and every time I see one I feel like I need to do a PSA about that platform’s bot detection Gather round,...
Reporter Interview Sparks Two Articles on Neurodivergent Workplace Inclusion
Do you guys remember the reporter I spent an hour on the phone with last week talking about the ways that employers can do better for their neurodivergent employees? Well that chat resulted in not one, but TWO articles out this...
GenAI Bridges My Executive Functioning Gaps
I’ve spent the last two months of my free time designing and implementing genAI experiments to help fill some of my executive functioning gaps. The most successful? * An executive functioning assistant trained on neurodivergence, PDA, RSD, and relationship maintenance gaps...
Dog Sitting Restores My Routine Amid Global Chaos
People are surprised when I mention my dog sitting… but I’ve just come to accept that I am a person who needs dogs. I was a mess this week — global events had me completely dysregulated — but after a...
Leadership Culture, Not Consulting, Drives Client Success
1 Every few quarters I rework my offers to eliminate implementation consulting because it doesn't matter how solid the methodology or implementation support is... client results are ultimately beyond my control. Success or failure comes down to what extent senior...
Simple Norms Beat Fancy Programs for Neurodiversity Inclusion
I spent an hour (!) on a call with a reporter last week talking about the significant delta between employer self-evaluation of their neurodivergence inclusion and employee experience. One of the most consistent things I observe across the companies I’m invited...
Creating Workplaces Where People Thrive Never Gets Old
I missed celebrating my practice’s birthday last month because it was peak season, but I was just reflecting on this week and about how making workplaces people want to do their best work in is just never, ever going to...
Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
You have a strategy. You have goals. You may even have OKRs. …and there’s still a gap between what you plan and what actually happens. A Kirkus reviewer called that gap “a fatal distance between aspiration and accomplishment” — and said the...
Key Results Turn Tasks Into Measurable Success
You “know what you need to do.” So you wake up every day and do as much as you can. If you’re superhuman (I am not) you ship your roadmap. Hit every deadline. Check every box… …and still don’t actually *achieve*...
Reclaim Mornings by Shifting Claude Usage Off‑Peak
Folks struggling with Claude Code usage shifts: I just soft-blocked usage during peak hours, using a "Is this important enough to do during peak hours?" gate in my terminal, and hard blocked with a kill script on my Claude desktop...
Launch Rough OKRs Now, Learn Through Action
Ever spent so long overthinking your goals, the quarter started without them? I see it every single day. Diligent people get stuck because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. But only in retrospect do we have a chance of knowing whether our...
A Strategy Book for Neurodivergent Minds Using No‑BS OKRs
Given up on business books because so many are talking to someone who … isn’t you? Allow me to introduce you to my book, “You Are a Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done.” A BookLife Prize reviewer called it...
AI-Enhanced Drafts Boost OKR Quality After Workshop
I’ve been so stymied by how the overall quality of draft OKRs has gone up so much in the last few months and this week after multiple stakeholders mentioned that they took their notes from my workshop and put them...