Your family is a team. Give it a plan.
No spreadsheets, no boardroom. Just three simple habits borrowed from the best teams in the world and made for real families.
Pick one goal
Name what your family values, then choose one bold objective a seven-year-old could repeat, with two or three key results you can actually measure.
Huddle 10 minutes a week
Celebrate what went well. Check where you are. Clear what's in the way. Kids talk first, and you stop on time.
Score it and celebrate
Green, yellow or red. A score starts a conversation, not a grade. Then celebrate the effort with a treat, like a family sundae.
Every family has a someday list. But setting goals together is hard, until you make it worth celebrating. Pick one objective and three key results, huddle up each week, and treat yourselves for every win: a sundae, a movie night, pancakes for dinner, whatever your family loves. That's The Sundae Huddle, where goals stick because every win gets a treat.
The 30-Day Starter Plan
One small step a day for a month. About 15 minutes a week. It's the fastest way to try The Sundae Huddle with your crew.
What has your family always wanted to do? Make a plan to do it.
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are the goal-setting system behind companies like Google and Amazon. In The Sundae Huddle, husband-and-wife team Zaquis and Zack Ross bring that system home, tested on a tough audience: two kids, a dog named Samson, and a calendar that never stops.
- Turn a vague wish into a goal everyone can see
- Get kids and teens to help shape the plan, not just follow it
- Measure what matters without turning home into a report card
- Bounce back when a goal fails, because some will
The Sundae Huddle Workbook
The companion to the book, made for writing in together. Read a chapter, then open the workbook at your weekly huddle and capture your family's answers, plans and wins in one place you can look back on for years.
- A two-page spread for every chapter: the big idea, three questions and the chapter's exercise
- A kids' corner in every chapter, so everyone has a voice
- 13 weekly huddle pages, monthly trackers and a year in review
- A treat to celebrate every win
The Sundae Huddle Small‑Group Leader Guide
Everything you need to lead couples, parents or a church small group through the book. Families set one goal together over six weeks and come back each week to share what worked.
- Six ready-to-lead sessions that follow the book and the 30-Day Starter Plan
- Discussion questions, a couples' activity and next steps at home for every session
- The matching workbook pages for each week, so families take it home to the kids
- An optional faith connection with scripture and prayer for church groups
The Sundae Huddle, in your pocket
Everything from the 30-Day Starter Plan, one tap away. Works on any phone, no download needed.
- Today's step, every day for 30 days
- Your family goal and key results, scored green, yellow or red
- Weekly huddle notes you can look back on
- Private by design: everything stays on your phone
Tip: on your phone, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Bring The Sundae Huddle to your community
Warm, practical and relaxed. Nobody has to share more than they want to, and nobody has to have a picture-perfect family.
Churches and faith communities
A family night or small-group series built around your congregation's values, with books and printables for every family.
Schools and PTAs
A Sundae Huddle Night that sends every family home with one goal, a plan and a reason to come back together.
Neighborhoods and HOAs
A clubhouse workshop or a block-wide community challenge that gets neighbors serving and celebrating together.
Meet Zack and Zaquis
Zack Ross
A global OKR coach to hundreds of companies on six continents, from Fortune 500 firms to startups, and a global mentor for Google for Startups. A former senior technical program manager at Google and Amazon, he has worked as an expert coach at OKRsTraining.com since 2017.
Zaquis Ross
A global marketing, public relations and event director in publishing, cybersecurity and business strategy, and certified in OKRs by OKRsTraining.com. Together, they put OKRs to work at home with their two children and their dog, Samson.
Your kids don't need perfect parents. They need present parents.