Months wasted figuring it out
Leaders burn whole quarters reading books and reverse-engineering the framework, making the simple mistakes that throw the rollout off course before it starts.
OKR services
Get aligned and focused on outcomes. Fast.
Rapid changes in customers, technology and expectations are transforming work and life. Your company must move just as fast. OKR is your path there. The OKR Quickstart approach is the formula we've refined over a decade of doing it.
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Why getting started is hard
Embedding OKR is hard without the right formula.
Three traps we see again and again. The Quickstart approach is built to get you past them.
Missed activities, missed alignment
Kicking OKR off is more than writing them down. Without the right setting workshop, check-in cadence and review ceremonies, alignment quietly drifts.
OKRs that don't focus the business
Activity-shaped key results, fuzzy objectives, ten-priorities-disguised-as-three. The fastest way to lose credibility with leadership.
The OKR Quickstart approach
Six stages, run over 90 days.
The shape of every Quickstart engagement. Six stages that together form The 90-Day OKR Quickstart Blueprint. We tailor depth and pace to your team, but the rhythm holds.
- 01 Stage
Strategise
Clear change strategy
- Define the meaningful problem
- Sharpen the OKR purpose
- Compelling change narrative
- Lock in why OKR, why now
- 02 Stage
Influence
Influencers & awareness
- Stand up the OKR champion network
- Tailor the OKR approach to your business
- Build awareness of why OKR matters
- 03 Stage
Learn
The OKR framework
- OKR training & learning experiences
- Case studies and discussion forums
- Surface related internal success stories
- 04 Stage
Experiment
Launch OKR
- Understand your strategy
- Focus on one team or function
- One OKR per team
- Build in quick wins, share, iterate
- 05 Stage
Embed
Execute & embed
- Link actions and initiatives to the OKR
- Acknowledge misalignment honestly
- Weekly confidence score
- 06 Stage
Improve
Continuous improvement
- Celebrate wins
- End-of-cycle score & retrospective
- Protect from incentives that disrupt OKR
What changes
How OKR helps the business.
Drive growth
Turn strategy into action.
Create the structure and focus for teams to link the work in flight to the company strategy. Directional autonomy, with a hard measure of progress.
Create momentum
Cross-functional, laser focus.
Radical momentum from teams aligning on a small set of priorities. Transparency and collaboration replace competing roadmaps.
Show outcomes
Progress you can defend.
See what's working and what isn't. OKRs become a north star, and tell you fast when you've drifted off course.
Strategic execution system
A single operating rhythm for the whole company.
Our co-designed approach blends our experience with your business knowledge. The result is a single planning-and-execution machine that becomes your operating heartbeat.
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Objective
Become the easiest OKR partner to start with.
- KR1 78%
- Cut time-to-cycle 12w → 4w
- KR2 62%
- Reach NPS 70+ from new customers
- KR3 100%
- Ship the OKR Coaching Kit to 5 teams
Self-serve
Free resources to get you moving.
OKR Cheat Sheet
A one-pager covering OKR structure, examples, and the common mistakes to dodge.
Grab the cheat sheetFree OKR Course
A short on-demand course that walks your team through the basics in under an hour.
Start the courseOKR blog
160+ posts on writing better objectives, running cycles, and avoiding the common traps.
Read the blogWhere OKR Quickstart works
Tailored to your sector, not lifted from a textbook.
We've run programs across the industries below. The principles stay the same; the rhythm is what we tailor.
SaaS & product teams
Tie product bets to outcomes leadership can defend. Built for fast cycle teams.
View customer storiesFintech
Align growth, risk, and compliance on a single rhythm without slowing delivery.
View customer storiesHealthcare
Outcome metrics that work alongside regulated processes and clinical priorities.
View customer storiesPublic sector
Multi-stakeholder programs that need transparent priorities and traceable progress.
View customer storiesE-commerce
Marketing, merchandising and ops working off the same set of growth KRs.
View customer storiesEnterprise
Org-wide rollouts, M&A integrations, and OKR for boards. Custom from the ground up.
View customer stories
Built from experience
Meet Tim Newbold.
Director of Strategy and founder of OKR Quickstart. For over a decade Tim has refined the way leading companies set objectives, run cycles, and turn strategy into execution.
Tim's team of OKR consultants and facilitators now helps companies embed OKR from offices in Melbourne and Sydney, with delighted clients across Asia, the US and Europe. He's learned the hard lessons in the room so you don't have to.
What's covered
Built for serious leadership teams.
Change management
- Co-designed program with your champions
- Lean change practices
- Compelling change narrative
- Stakeholder mapping
- Quick wins planned upfront
Coaching depth
- Hands-on facilitation by senior coaches
- OKR writing workshops
- Cycle setting + check-in + review
- Executive-team mentoring
- 1:1 with team OKR owners
Outcomes tracking
- Weekly confidence scoring
- Initiative-to-KR linking
- Mid-cycle retros
- End-of-cycle scoring framework
- Incentive design that protects OKR
Co-designed for impact
Scaling change is hard. Co-design makes it land.
Our approach to co-design creates a network of change agents inside each team to embed the framework. Your most passionate people lead it. We call them OKR Champions.
Following Lean Change practices we run a regular forum for the OKR Champions to take a lead role on the implementation. Small startup or large multinational, this approach builds commitment and spreads capability across your business with your own people.
Change Lead
Senior individual accountable for the OKR change implementation.
Change Champ
Team members who'll facilitate embedding the change within their teams.
Senior Change Champ
Senior stakeholders from around the business who'll lead the design and execute the change across the org.
Rest of the organisation
Not part of the Champion group, but everyone is responsible for delivering on the change. The Champs give everyone the tools.
Free guide
The Fast OKR Launch Guide.
The complete OKR implementation playbook for small businesses and teams. Set the strategy, run the workshop, score the cycle, run the retro. Everything we use with our own clients, written down.
A clear OKR rollout sequence for the first 4 weeks
The workshop agenda we run with leadership teams
How to score, retro, and reset the cycle without it feeling like a chore
Common questions.
Love the idea, but want to DIY?
Take the free introductory team OKR course, grab the OKR Cheat Sheet, or read the blog.
How long does a Quickstart take?
Most teams are running their first proper cycle in 4–6 weeks. A full org rollout is typically 1–2 quarters end-to-end.
Already doing OKR and not loving it?
Yes. OKR Revitalisation is exactly for that. We diagnose what's broken (usually three or four specific things) and rebuild from there. See OKR Consulting.
Do you work with companies outside Australia?
Yes, regularly. Clients across the US, UK, Europe and Asia. Based in Melbourne and Sydney; most engagement runs over video.
Will OKR work for our team size or industry?
We've run programs in SaaS, fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, consulting, manufacturing and the public sector. From 10-person product teams to divisions inside enterprises.
Ready to begin your OKR quickstart?
Talk to us directly.
Get started.
Partner with us on your OKR rollout
- Work with senior OKR coaches to design the program
- Hands-on cycle facilitation by our team
- A change narrative your leadership will actually back
- Priority slots in Tim's calendar
Build it yourself
- Free OKR Course: the basics in under an hour
- Battle-tested OKR templates and cheat sheets
- 160+ blog posts on writing better objectives
- A library of customer stories from real rollouts