Kintsugi Team

Savannah Rayat

VP of Strategy, Growth and Development

Savannah is an Executive Agile Transformation Coach with more than 20 years of experience working with Fortune 10 organizations and executive leadership teams. She is passionate about helping organizations develop authentic agility by creating cultures where leaders and teams continuously learn, inspect, adapt, and view both success and failure as opportunities for growth.

Throughout her career, Savannah has advised leaders on enterprise transformation, organizational change, and the adoption of Lean and Agile ways of working. She brings an investor mindset to transformation, focusing on value, efficiency, customer outcomes, and sustainable change. Her approach emphasizes strengthening adoption, behaviors, accountability, and organizational capability rather than simply implementing processes or frameworks.

As an Agile coach, Savannah works with leaders and teams to continuously inspect and adapt strategies, improve how work flows through organizations, and accelerate the delivery of customer value. She has also applied Agile principles and Scrum beyond traditional technology environments, demonstrating how agility can strengthen business operations, product development, sales, marketing, and organizational effectiveness.

Savannah is an active International Coaching Federation Master Certified Coach (MCC), the organization’s highest coaching credential, and a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) through Scrum Alliance. She also holds the Coaching Agile Transformations (ICP-CAT) and Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) credentials and has completed extensive training in Co-Active Coaching and Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC).

Her approach to training is deeply influenced by neuroscience and adult learning principles. Savannah is trained in Brain-Based Conversation Skills and is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room (TBR) Trainer. She integrates brain-based learning techniques, experiential activities, and the TBR 4Cs model to create engaging learning environments that help participants translate concepts into practical behaviors.

Savannah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Management and Leadership and is completing graduate studies in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She is also a published author with more than two dozen professional certifications spanning Agile, coaching, training, and facilitation.

Beyond her client and classroom work, Savannah has presented at professional conferences and contributed her time to Agile and Scrum communities and events. Her commitment to continuous learning and organizational transformation remains at the center of her work as both a coach and educator.