meet Archana
creating the conditions for breakthrough leadership.
For over two decades, I've held senior leadership roles across the social sector—from principal to founder to C-suite executive—navigating the exact challenges my clients face: carrying mission-critical decisions, managing complex stakeholder relationships, and building organizational systems that can sustain ambitious impact.
Let’s make space for what’s possible.
I believe that we can actually disrupt generational poverty in our lifetime —but only if we commit to honesty, proximity, and a commitment to learning. My path started in the classroom as an educator, to the school house as a principal, to the system level as a coach, and to the C-suite as an executive.
At each step, I saw what’s possible when leadership and community come together to build bridges and move boulders. I also saw how easy it is to get lost in the swirl, the never ending fires, the hidden insecurities, the unspoken assumptions that make leadership lonely and changemaking hard.
Through Savi, I see what is possible when we ask powerful questions, reject false urgency, bet on lived experience, and step into our power. Yes, it is hard, and yes, without a doubt, a better world is possible.
professional journey
Archana is a seasoned executive coach, skilled facilitator and trusted advisor. With deep roots in K-12 education and economic mobility leadership, she brings a practitioner's perspective to executive strategy. As VP of Parent Programming at the Jeremiah Program, Archana scaled a two-generation program that works with single mothers and their children to disrupt generational poverty, managing growth from five to nine geographies while codifying a breakthrough model that integrates higher education, early childhood, housing, financial wellness and individual coaching.
Her leadership journey spans from the classroom to the boardroom: she ran the Broad Academy program developing superintendents and CEOs of the country's largest school systems, transformed a low-performing middle school as a turnaround principal at KIPP Los Angeles, co-founded Teach for India, and has centered leadership and community throughout her career as a K-12 teacher, leader and innovator. She is the board chair of Great Public Schools Now, a non-profit intermediary fund exclusively focused on improving Los Angeles public education. She is a Founding Growth Council member at South Asian Soar, a home for the national movement to end gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora.
Archana holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Southern California, an MS in Teaching from Fordham University, and BAs in English and Philosophy from Boston College. She is an Aspen-Pahara Fellow and a Policy Council member at Education Leaders of Color. Archana is a student of leadership, strategy, and movements, committed to building a world where every leader has the tools to create lasting change in their communities.
Savi Roots
Savi means "sun" and "light" in Sanskrit—the illumination that makes everything else possible.
Savi is inspired by powerful women whose leadership shone in the most challenging of circumstances. My grandmother, Savita who taught me that vision and discipline create the conditions for excellence. My grandmother Vijaya showed me that dignity can never be taken away without your permission and that you can always choose kindness.
Both women were married at 13, raised six children, and demonstrated remarkable strength within severe constraints— their brilliance was undeniable and in just a generation, they inspired a new world of possibility for their families. They embody what "Savi" truly means: the light that brings clarity to complexity, the wisdom that transforms challenges into possibilities, and the foundational strength that creates prosperity for the next generation.
Just as they brought illumination to their world despite limitations, Savi Advising brings clarity to complex leadership challenges, creating the conditions for a future where the next generation of leaders has the space to dream bigger than we thought possible.