Savannah Miller

Savannah Miller is the Senior Manager of Innovation at Pact, bringing nearly 15 years of expertise in design thinking and innovation across a wide range of sectors, including start-up entrepreneurship, impact funding, strategic consulting and international development. Throughout her career, Savannah has supported programming and staff in over 27 countries, working across diverse technical areas including global health, economic development, livelihoods and gender equity. In her role at Pact, she leads the organization's Innovation portfolio, collaborating with local partners to integrate innovative design and strengthen creative and iterative capacity for sustainable change. Savannah is an accomplished facilitator and practitioner of Human-Centered Design (HCD), with over 2,000 hours of hands-on experience applying HCD methodologies. She is deeply committed to fostering solutions through creativity, resilience and community-centered collaboration.

Savannah's expertise includes a range of design and project management methodologies for social innovation (Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Startup, Accelerator/Incubator, Co-Design and Equity-Centered Design) as well as facilitation, partnership development and adaptive management. Savannah holds an MBA in Impact from Colorado State University and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from Florida State University.