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Our Core Trainers

Meet Alston Hodge

Alston is a seasoned Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) with over 15 years of business agility transformation experience at Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries. He has extensive experience in advising organizations, co-creating transformation strategies, and roadmaps, as well as coaching/training senior leaders and teams in Lean/Agile ways of working.

Alston is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 20 years of portfolio, program, and project management experience in IT, Insurance, Finance, Healthcare, and Energy industries. He has advised organizations in establishing Project Management Offices and setting up processes for portfolio, program, and project management.

Alston’s approach is to first “meet the client where they are” in their business transformation journey. He brings a holistic approach that extends beyond the technology departments. By including business units and key stakeholders, he helps clients to strengthen and scale their product and project management capabilities, thereby ensuring sustainable Business Agility Transformation.

Alston has a BS in Botany from Clemson University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He lives in Louisville, KY, and has been married for 34 years. He and his wife have two sons, one a medical student at the University of Louisville and the other pursuing his doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside. In his spare time, Alston enjoys flyfishing, hiking, and woodworking.

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Meet Savannah Rayat

As an Executive Agile Transformation Coach, Savannah is passionate about evoking authentic agility within the organization. She inspires leaders to create a culture where failures are celebrated just as much as successes. Over the last decade and a half, she has been working with Fortune 100 companies and their executive teams. She has brought an investor mindset to achieve efficiencies by inspecting and adopting at every turn. She takes a customer-centric value-based approach to defining and deploying change management with the goal of strengthening adoption, behaviors, and accountability.

She is a pioneer who figured out a way to apply Agile principles and Scrum framework to both the Real Estate and Coaching industry. She is an innovator who harnessed her professional training as an Agile coach to improve processes through inspecting and adapting. Additionally, she streamlined the sales cycle and marketing cycle to adapt agility and increase the speed to market. This helps entrepreneurs build their business fast with more efficiency and better results. 

Currently, Savannah is an active Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation, the gold standard in coach certification, with several global clients. She also prides herself on being trained as a Co-Active Professional Coach and Organizational Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC). She is also a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) from Scrum Alliance and she holds the ICAgile Coaching Agile Transformation (ICP-CAT) and Enterprise Agile Coaching (ENT) credential.

Savannah uses her training from Brain-Based Conversation Skills (BBCS) to help people open up new neuro-pathways to achieve their true potentials. Savannah is a certified Training From the Back of the Room (TBR) Trainer from Sharon Bowman’s training program. She uses powerful learning principles based on brain science to enhance her course participant’s experiences. The famous TBR 4Cs model is often used in her class.

Her dedication to Lean/Agile principles and passion for self-improvement is evident in her many certifications and the extent of her training activity and ongoing involvement in the Agile, Scrum, and Coaching community. Savannah is a published author and holds more than two dozen industry certifications encompassing coaching, training, and facilitation.

If Savannah is not coaching or training at a client location, she can be found speaking at a conference or volunteering her time at one of the Agile or Scrum conferences throughout the year. Savannah calls Ohio home, though she grew up in Connecticut. She is passionate about the stock market, also enjoys spending time with her family.

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The Story of Kintsugi Training

The centuries-old Japanese art of Kintsugi challenges us to reimagine what we define as beauty. The process involves rejoining pieces of broken pottery with gold particles in the adhesive, transforming the imperfections to a beautiful one-of-a-kind work of art, therefore making it complete.

In the same way, this art shows off the beauty in the fragmented seams; In the world of Kintsugi Training Institute, we believe imperfections make people naturally whole and complete. The beauty lies, not in perfection, but rather in the imperfections – beautiful not despite, but because of.

In our training classes, we teach the next generation of coaches to see their clients as naturally whole because of their imperfections. Also, we help them see their imperfections as what makes them unique and gives them their unique coaching style.

Our Philosophy, who we are

The core of the Kintsugi Training Institute is built on Agile values and principles, which allows for seamless integration of those values within our training materials and connection with our participants. From content creation to business operations, everything embodies agility. Agile is not just a process or methodology, it’s a mindset that we believe can transcend any workspace.

Our goal is to support our participants across multiple regions, being mindful of different time zones and schedules while they are on their Agile Coaching journey. Because of this, we intend to have a variety of offerings to accommodate our clients and will adjust as needed based on feedback. We hold our clients as whole human beings and believe they embody creativity. We value open communication, feedback loops, and the natural intelligence of our clients who take our courses.

Our training style at Kintsugi

At Kintsugi Training Institute we believe in an immersive learning experience. Our courses are led by our expert facilitators that together have multiple decades worth of knowledge to be shared. Those that participate in our courses will be active participants who engage with our trainers. All of our courses include printable workbooks and are built with multiple activities and use interactive tools such as Mural and FunRetro.

We utilize the existing knowledge of our participants, combined with the knowledge and expertise of our trainers to create a more immersive and impactful learning experience. This brain-based, adult learning style allows for transformational learning to take place that can immediately be applied and have a lasting impact.

Our Core Trainer’s Credentials

Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Project Management Professional (PMP), AgilityHealth Radar Facilitator (AHF)

ICAgile Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), ICAgile Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT)

Training from the Back of the Room Certified Trainer (TBR), AgilityHealth Radar Facilitator (AHF), Professional Certified Coach (ICF-PCC), Co-Active Trained Coach, ORSC Trained Coach, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC), Brain-Based Certified Coach (BBCC), Results Trained Coach (RTC)

ICAgile Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT), ICAgile Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT), ICAgile Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), ICAgile Agility in Marketing (ICP-MKG)

Other TRAINER’S CREDENTIALS

Co-Active Trained Coach, ORSC Trained Coach, Kotter – Leading Change trained, Alchemy trained facilitator, Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) trained, Bikablo Graphic Facilitator

ICAgile Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT), ICAgile Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

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