Isaiah Webster is President and Chief Executive Officer of Savvy Counsel, LLC. He founded the company in 2023 to center practicality in consulting and media, and oversees its strategic vision, training design, and consultant acquisition.

With more than 20 years of professional experience in the grassroots and nonprofit sectors, Isaiah brings an unmatched innovation to his consultancy; his approach to work is guided by intentionality, social justice, and public awareness, and he prides himself on practical outcomes. Known as an accomplished trainer and skilled facilitator, he has worked with more than 100 companies, community-based organizations, universities, and health departments.

Isaiah is a creative designer of diverse resources and has experience providing technical assistance on minority leadership development; leadership assessments; public health-related stigma; health equity; capacity building; strategic planning; digital media; facilitation; and communication strategies. As an executive, he has supervised teams of professionals and managed more than $25 million in state and federal programs.

Isaiah is a certified practitioner of the Interpersonal Leadership Styles (ILS) assessment, a tool aimed at understanding and working across differences; and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®(MBTI) assessment, a renowned framework for life-long people development. He is also a certified Mental Health First Aid trainer, as designated by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. And he is a certified parliamentarian by the National Association of Parliamentarians.

Since 2021, Isaiah has served as an advisor for the Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times Certificate Program at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.

Isaiah is editor-in-chief and host of BLACK/SHREWD, the blog and podcast that chronicles the intentionality of rogue ideas in public affairs and pop culture. From 2021-2023, he served as co-creator and co-host of Ward & Webster, a weekly opinion podcast about living the best possible life. He is also a contributor to the Southern Steep podcast, which centers community leaders in the southern United States.

Though he built his career in public health, Isaiah (Aries/Scorpio) is a graduate of the University of Louisiana with a degree in mass communication. Originally from rural Louisiana, he now lives in Washington, D.C., and enjoys astrology/astronomy, bourbon-tasting, football, tennis, and traveling.

Carmel Pryor is a Senior Advisor for Savvy Counsel, LLC, and President of Pryor Engagement, LLC.

Carmel has more than 15 years of experience in the civic sector developing social impact partnerships, implementing narrative change strategies, and innovating digital media tools to increase access to life-enhancing information. This experience has cemented her belief in the power of strategic communications and technology to build the agency of marginalized communities.

Carmel has executed international, national, and local advocacy communications campaigns for nonprofits, foundations, and political campaigns, including coaching youth organizers to create impactful communications strategies to help turn out the record-breaking youth vote in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Her work includes orchestrating the first-of-its-kind U.S. State Department-funded digital media strategy to support refugees accessing vital information to demystify the resettlement journey to the United States, spearheading multiple key partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and celebrities to raise awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS, and more.

Most importantly, Carmel is a proud Cleveland, Ohio native who believes weekends aren’t complete without brunch.

Rosy Galvan is a Senior Advisor for Savvy Counsel, LLC, and the Founder and Lead Trainer of The Sunshine Collective, a consulting firm helping individuals and organizations turn equity concepts and intentions into bold, actionable, and impactful outcomes across settings.

As an accomplished executive, facilitator, and professional coach — Rosy has more than 20 years experience working with community-based organizations and health departments. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, mentorship, training design, anti-racism and health equity, and social determinants of health impacting women and queer communities.

Rosy is also a macro social worker who helps organizations operationalize equitable principles in programming, practices, and workplace dynamics. Using frameworks rooted in community-led development, she specializes in helping teams turn concepts and intentions into bold and actionable outcomes across settings. Rosy uses the intersection of her creativity and social work practice to create change, believing our imaginations are critical tools for transforming harmful systems into centers for healing.