Saveena Dhall, Ed.M. is an inclusive leader, strategic advisor, and builder of creative and transformative spaces. She works with individuals and organizations to provide intentional coaching, critical skills building, and expand leadership capacity and potential for impact. As an educator with nearly three decades of academic coaching, influential advising, systems and program development and executive management experience, Saveena’s professional expertise encompasses institutions of higher education, K-12 schools, consultancy and training leadership, and non-profit social justice organizations. Clients include university and school communities, leaders, executives, departmental staff groups, and service organizations. The portfolio of services covers team retreats, strategic planning, organizational growth and systems design, leadership development, climate assessments, infusing DEIJ principles into organizational culture and practices, and themed dialogues and curated learning sessions to drive growth to the next level.

Saveena’s 1:1 Coaching Sessions are customized to meet individual needs with broad based expertise: executive decision making, change management, life & career coaching, and advisement for academic success.

As former Associate Dean and senior leader at the Yale School of Nursing, Saveena’s portfolio included enrollment services, financial aid, registrar and curricular matters, student services, career development, and student life and belonging. During her twenty-two years of service at Yale University, Saveena served in many roles at the College including Assistant Dean of the College, student success initiatives and academic programs administrator, director of a university cultural center, director of Mellon Foundation funded fellowships, and manager of first year and part-time student programs. Saveena’s professional experiences include social justice community educator, admissions manager, career and college achievement counselor, and senior facilitator of diversity and inclusion dialogues for community serving nonprofits and educational institutions (K-12 and higher education). As an academic and student services administrator at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she was selected as a fellow within Harvard University’s prestigious Administrative Fellowship Program. She earned her master’s degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and completed her undergraduate education at Connecticut College. She serves as Vice President of the Connecticut College Alumni Board and volunteers on boards and local organizations in her community.