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Executive coaching & leadership development
Build the leader.
Build the leader.
Build the system.
Build what lasts.
I help leaders and organizations grow — through executive coaching, team development, scaled programs, and AI-powered tools that make development stick.
20+
Years developing leaders
55K+
Employees influenced
100+
Coaching clients
4
Ways I can help
One partner for the full stack of leadership development
Most coaches do one thing. I built a practice that reflects how leadership development actually works... because it's never just one thing.
Executive Coaching
1:1 coaching for directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders navigating growth, transition, or the gap between where they are and where their role demands they be.
Learn moreTeam Development & Facilitation
Discovery-driven offsites and ongoing team development for leadership teams that need to actually function as a team — not just share a calendar invite.
Learn moreScaled Development Programs
Cohort-based programs that reach 50–200 managers with consistent quality. Your company's context built in, not bolted on.
Learn moreAI Advisory & Custom Assistants
Custom GPTs for coaching reinforcement and agentic workflows that integrate with your systems. AI that makes your leaders better — not just your processes faster.
Learn moreWhy Saville Coaching
I don't teach from textbooks. I spent eight years at Meta as Director of Leader Development — coaching C-suite, facilitating senior teams, and building programs that reached thousands of leaders. Before that, I was a middle school art teacher in New York City. That range is my superpower.
I've built leadership development from the inside at companies navigating hypergrowth, reorgs, and the messy middle of doing hard things with people. Now I do that work alongside organizations as an external partner.
I work with leaders and organizations navigating growth
Newly elevated leaders
The skills that got you promoted won't be the skills that make you successful. Let's build the ones that will.
Senior leaders needing renewal
You don't need another productivity hack. You need to remember why you started leading in the first place.
People leaders scaling teams
You don't need another vendor. You need a partner who sees the whole system: coaching, facilitation, programs, and AI.
What clients say
What sets Ian apart is how practical he is. He doesn’t deal in abstractions. He hands you language and tools you actually use in the room the next day.
He has a real gift for building frameworks — feedback, decision-making, you name it — that don’t feel like frameworks and work uniquely for the team.
The Noodle Shop
Where ideas go to noodle
A weekly Substack at the intersection of AI, HR, and leadership. Reframing confusion and complexity into curiosity — with a practice of putting lightly held ideas to the test and finding what sticks.
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