What does an OKR consultant do?

An OKR consultant helps organisations design and implement the Objectives and Key Results framework correctly. This includes building the strategy architecture that OKRs sit within, designing the OKR hierarchy from company to team level, facilitating planning sessions, training internal champions, and embedding the check-in and reporting rhythms that make OKRs work long-term.

Why do most OKR implementations fail?

68% of OKR roll-outs do not last more than two years. The most common reasons are: OKRs disconnected from strategy, output-focused Key Results rather than outcome-focused ones, lack of leadership buy-in, no check-in rhythm, and treating OKR software as a substitute for proper implementation. Software alone cannot fix a poor OKR architecture.

How long does OKR implementation take with ZOKRI?

Most ZOKRI consulting engagements see initial OKRs running within 4–8 weeks. Full embedding — where OKRs are genuinely driving strategic decisions and team behaviour — typically takes 2–3 quarters. ZOKRI's combination of consulting and software accelerates this versus self-serve implementations, which often take 12–18 months to show results.

What is OKR training and who needs it?

OKR training teaches leadership teams and practitioners how to write, align, measure, and review Objectives and Key Results correctly. It is most valuable for organisations starting OKRs for the first time, those who have run OKRs but are not seeing commercial impact, and internal OKR coaches or champions who need to train and support their colleagues.

Expert Implementation. Every Time. At Every Scale.

Our advisors and consultants have implemented goal-setting capabilities across organisations ranging from 50 to 4,000 people, across sectors, structures, and starting points.

We don’t arrive with a framework and impose it. We find what fits your organisation, OKRs, an alternative approach, or a hybrid that reflects how you actually work. We then build the capability at every level to make it hold. Because a framework that doesn’t fit the organisation doesn’t get adopted. And a framework that does fit but isn’t understood doesn’t sustain.

We solve both.

TRUSTED BY AMBITIOUS COMPANIES

We Implement Goal Frameworks Like OKRs
To Build High Performing Cultures That Power & Speed Up Growth

Assets

We bring an extensive range of training materials and handbooks to build your own internal learning and development capability with – speed, quality and scalability solved.

Solutions

Perfected processes, templates and tools, along with expert facilitation and coaching helps teams to gather a wide range of ideas and perspectives for leaders to consider.

Capabilitities

Capabilitiies like critical thinking, increasing confidence in the ideas that will work, reaching consensus, and optimising resources are key to formulating great OKRs.

Experience

Experience counts, for example strategic comms is the most undervalued and under resourced stage of the OKR cycle so we get the message and the mediums right

Culture

Frameworks like OKRs are not only a format, they are a mindset, a capability and come with key rituals that need to be learned before they will become normal – “just what we do here”.

From Scale-ups to Global Enterprise

Whether you’re a 50 person scale-up, a 5,000 employee enterprise we’ve got the experience you want to adapt our approach to your reality.

First time using OKRs or a re-boot of a previous attempt, we’ve know how to approach both to ensure that they succeed and make a big difference to performance and culture.

B2B Service Company

“ZOKRI didn’t help us implement OKRs. They transformed how we think about growth. The integration of strategy, change management, and coaching allowed us to focus on what mattered and execute as a cohesive, high-performing team.”

B2B Service UK Tech Company

“We used ZOKRI to drive our strategic objectives. The results exceeded our expectations. ZOKRI sparked critical conversations that weren’t happening before – removing roadblocks, clarifying priorities, and driving collaboration across the business. We didn’t just set better goals – we fundamentally changed how teams communicate, prioritise, and work together to achieve them.”

UK PLC

“After success with one division we got ZOKRI in again to help another division with strategy, execution and culture building. Results 12 months after the first engagement? Revenue is up, bonuses are being paid for the first time in years, and we have the biggest pipeline in 5 years, and it’s scaling.”

European Scale-up

“ZOKRI helped to re-boot our OKR program and got us to think more strategically and re-think how teams work towards better OKRs and make progress much faster. Teams now know the big bets we’re making and can easily align.”

Multi-market Winner

“We are a complex org with many companies in many categories, across many countries. ZOKRI trained thousands of people with a mix of workshop, training material, learning management systems, and mentoring – with outstanding results.”

Still Working On Your Strategy? Let Us Help.

Let us use our tried and tested strategic planning process to help you and your teams craft your winning strategy. At every stage we will also act as thinking partners to optimise critical thinking, minimise biases and ensure objectivity and achievability – with strategic OKRs being the beneficiary if this work.

Our Team

Meet our OKR consultants and trainers. We are not typical. We have a diverse and complementary range of skills, so we can meet your teams where they are, knowing much of what they know, and sometimes more. We’ve scaled and exited tech companies, served as CXOs, and worked in complex enterprise orgs. Most importantly, we’ve succeeded in accelerating growth with OKRs across a wide range of organisations and can do the same for you.

Matt Roberts

Matt is the founder of ZOKRI and leads many of our consulting and training engagements himself. His expertise is in Strategy, OKRs and Execution, but his skills are very much in communication, facilitation and critical thinking.

His skills as a consultant have been built on a foundation of product, marketing, and sales leadership. He’s led marketing agencies, founded, scaled and exited a tech company, and is a CEO himself.

Ian Harvey

Ian has led projects for large enterprises, scale-ups, and owner-run SMBs. He is an exceptional strategist and an expert in OKR implementation. This ensures we deliver the value everyone wants to see from this exciting, outcome-based goal-setting methodology.

His deep understanding of the product management function has also proven incredibly useful where product-led growth is central to the strategy.

Florent Cossarizza

Florent is our GTM-focused principal. Where Ian and Matt naturally focus on product-led growth, Florent brings a GTM perspective and helps to sharpen and align your marketing-led growth strategy.

Marketing teams are usually blown away by his experience and insights, welcoming him into their team planning conversations with open arms.

Chrisna Kruger

Krisna leads functional goal setting and initiatives. The places where operational excellence is sought but often not achieved. Places like PMO, HR, Finance and Legal.

Having been a leader in enterprise organisations at Microsoft and King, as well as scale-ups, her financial and operational skills bring yet another perspective to growth-focused projects.

Collette Easton

Collette, another ex CEO, is now an executive coach. She works with leadership teams to develop their management skills, whilst also supporting the more human aspects of leadership that often hold us back, such as imposter syndrome, stress, and neurodiversity (e.g., ADHD).

Katie Philips

Katie is a senior communications executive with strategic communications, change-management and executive coaching being some of the many talents that community members benefit from. When you know how important comms to change and growth, you get the value of the skills Katie brings.

Chris Caira

Chris is a PMO for larger projects and is also skilled in OKRs himself. Another talent Chris brings is his growing knowledge of the use of automations and AI agents to help functional teams speed up time-consuming processes, e.g. data enrichment for teams like Sales.

Matt Humphreys

Matt is in charge of the creative and production of our training materials, as well as white-label training or customer learning and development platforms. His use of a range of media, from video and audio to one-page design and animation, makes the materials and courses he helps the team create stunning.

Rescuing A Failed Implementation Or Starting From Zero

We will easily solve any previous failed implementations.

Starting Fresh

Rescue Work

"60% of our clients are rescue engagements. We specialise in the hard cases - organisations that tried and failed, where scepticism is high and trust is low. That's our expertise."

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