EPISODE · Aug 11, 2025 · 20 MIN
Ian Saville, Co-Founder of Collabic, Teacher, Marathon-Runner, Ep. 497
from Take it from the Ironwoman · host Ian Saville, Susane Mueller
Ian Saville is the “MacGyver for People Problems," a sought-after executive coach, team whisperer, and learning strategist. With 20+ years’ experience spanning nonprofits, tech, education, and healthcare, Ian helps leaders and teams unlock better ways of working together. Formerly Director of Leader Development at Meta, he coached execs across AI, Privacy, Reality Labs, and more. Ian co-founded The Collabic to scale transformational learning and collaboration. Australian-American and NYC-based, he brings warmth, rigor, and a builder’s mindset to everything he does. His north star: How can I help?Social Handles:Connect direct here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savilleian/www.thecollabic.comThe Collabic on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/97435368/ ***********Susanne Mueller / www.susannemueller.biz TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 500+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon / 5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk
What this episode covers
🎙️ Introduction & Background & our mutual Connections: Columbia University, a love for sports, and coaching. 💼 Professional Journey Co-founder of Collabic, a boutique L&D and executive coaching consultancy. He is a former Director of Leadership Development at Meta (Facebook). Initially, he started his career as a middle school art teacher in NYC. He is using his art background to build creative, scalable learning systems in organizations. 🎨 Art & Learning: Art education helped Ian understand how people grow and how to build systems to support growth. Art is communication—just like coaching and leadership development. 🧠 Identity & Integration: Ian emphasizes integrating identities—artist, coach, parent, leader. He realized the value in letting go of identities that no longer serve (e.g., seeing himself no longer as a runner). 🏃 Running & Lessons from Sports: Ultimately he ran the NYC Marathon and many half-marathons. Running taught him discipline, endurance, the importance of community support, and awareness of repetitive stress injuries (physical and metaphorical).
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