Case Study: Lingo Live achieves company-wide alignment and faster results with WorkBoard

Lingo Live - Customer Case Study

Lingo Live, a global, remote-first language-learning company co-founded by Mike Giordani, faced serious cross-team misalignment that surfaced at a leadership retreat—engineering and customer success were working at odds. A prior, slow OKR attempt on 7Geese left the team demoralized and revealed the need for a purpose-built OKR process and tool to separate strategy from individual performance and enable clearer, asynchronous collaboration.

They adopted WorkBoard and OKR certification, rolled the methodology out company-wide with weekly KR updates and Heatmap diagnostics, and shifted to asynchronous status updates. The changes drove rapid improvements in clarity (from 39% to 64% to 100% across three quarters), stronger quarter-over-quarter goal attainment (including a team reaching ~90% of targets), more productive meetings, and a more empowered, resilient organization.

Lingo Live

Mike Giordani

Co-founder