ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)

Savannah Rayat

Executive Coach · Business Strategist · ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)

Helping ambitious leaders build what comes next.

An executive perspective. An owner’s mindset. Coaching for leadership, business, and wealth—when the decisions are consequential and the next chapter needs intention.

20+

Years at the intersection of leadership & value creation

MCC

ICF Master Certified Coach

25+

Industry certifications

Forbes

Contributor & published author

Guiding principle

Lead with clarity. Build with intention. Create impact.

Savannah Rayat

About Savannah

Savannah Rayat is an Executive Coach, Business Strategist, and ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC). She works with executives, senior leaders, business owners, and entrepreneurs making consequential decisions about leadership, business, career, and wealth.

For more than 20 years, she has worked at the intersection of leadership, strategy, transformation, and value creation—as an executive inside a Fortune 50 investment company, and as a coach to leaders from frontline management through the C-suite across Fortune 10 to Fortune 100 organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

She is also an entrepreneur, investor, and business builder. That is not a side note. It is how she coaches: evaluate opportunity, allocate resources, manage uncertainty, and decide when the outcome rests with you.

Leadership Business Wealth

Those domains are connected. A senior executive may be weighing the next career move and ownership at the same time. A business owner may need to stop operating the business and start growing it. Someone who has spent decades building success may finally ask a harder question:

How do I turn what I have built into greater freedom, choice, and long-term wealth?

Savannah does not hand clients a formula. She helps them think clearly, challenge assumptions, understand tradeoffs, and decide what comes next—with intention.

Achievement matters most when it creates choice: how you spend your time, what you build, what you walk away from, and what kind of impact you want to leave.

What sets the work apart

An Executive Perspective.
An Owner’s Mindset.

  • She understands the executive table because she has sat at it.
  • She understands organizational transformation because she has led it.
  • She understands entrepreneurship because she has built businesses.
  • She understands wealth creation because she has spent decades thinking about investing, ownership, capital, opportunity, risk, and long-term value.

That combination shapes every conversation. Savannah brings an investor’s mindset to decision-making: separate signal from noise, question assumptions, see the upside and the downside, adapt when the evidence changes, and put time, energy, and capital where they create real value.

  • Sometimes that means changing how someone leads.
  • Sometimes it means rethinking a business strategy.
  • Sometimes it means evaluating a new opportunity.
  • Sometimes it means defining what financial freedom actually means—and building a path toward it.

Coaching That Goes Beyond the Surface

Savannah’s coaching is transformational, strategic, and direct. The partnership is built on trust, curiosity, thoughtful challenge, and real accountability—space to think deeply, and pressure to turn insight into action.

There is no one-size-fits-all framework. An executive may need presence, influence, and readiness for greater responsibility. A business owner may need growth, profitability, structure, and clearer capital decisions. Someone building wealth may need ownership, income streams, assets, and a more intentional path to independence.

Different challenges. Same objective: better decisions about what matters most.

Education

Evidence-informed coaching grounded in leadership and organizational science.

  • Bachelor’s degree Computer Science
  • Master’s degree Management and Leadership
  • Master’s degree (in progress) Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Accomplishments & Recognition

Selected highlights from Savannah’s career in coaching, transformation, and thought leadership.

  • Fortune 10 executive & leadership team coaching and transformation advisory
  • ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)—highest ICF coaching credential
  • Global keynote speaker on leadership agility, transformation, and people-first culture
  • Forbes Coaches Council contributor and published author
  • Faculty, Kintsugi Coaching Academy; trainer, Kintsugi Training Institute
  • ICF mentor coach and professional coach trainer for emerging coaches
  • Enterprise & team coaching credentials across leading agility bodies (Scrum Alliance, ICAgile, and more)
  • Brain-based certified coach (Neuroleadership Institute) and licensed Training from the BACK of the Room trainer
  • Conference facilitator and workshop leader for executives and change leaders

Certifications

A deep certification portfolio across coaching, enterprise agility, and facilitation—reflecting continuous professional growth.

Coaching & Mentoring

  • Master Certified Coach (MCC) — ICF
  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC) — ICF
  • Co-Active Trained Leadership Coach — CTI
  • Organization & Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC)
  • Results Trained Coach (RTC) — Neuroleadership Institute
  • Brain-Based Certified Coach (BBCC) — Neuroleadership Institute
  • Small Business Coach — Systems Business Coach
  • Shipley Certified Coach — Shipley Coaching

Leadership & Enterprise Agility

  • Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) — Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Team Coach (CTC) — Scrum Alliance
  • Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) — ICAgile
  • Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) — ICAgile
  • Systems Coaching (ICP-SYS) — ICAgile
  • Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC) — ICAgile
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) — SAFe
  • Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) — Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Business Agility Coach (CBAC) — Enterprise Scrum

Training & Facilitation

  • Agility Health Radar Facilitator (AHF) — Agility Health
  • Licensed Trainer and Practitioner, Training from the BACK of the Room (TCC) — Bowperson
  • Certified Enterprise Scrum Trainer (CEST) — Enterprise Scrum
  • Scrum Foundations Educator — Scrum Alliance
  • ICP-SYS, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, ICP-CAT, ICP-ENT, ICP-LEA, ICP-LPM, ICP-APO Authorized Instructor — ICAgile
  • Four Lenses Facilitator — Shipley Coaching & Four Lenses
  • OpenSpace Agility Certified (OSA)

Thought leadership

Savannah is a published author and Forbes contributor—sharing practical guidance on leadership, coaching, and organizational culture.

What are you building next?

A career. A business. Greater wealth. More freedom. Whatever comes next should be built with intention—start with a complimentary discovery call.

Schedule your discovery session