About Ray and Savannah

Two operators. Two vantage points. One clear lane.

Savannah Brown is the dental-operations insider. Ray Piercy is the business operator. Together, they teach the business operation of a dental practice. Neither is a dentist, and neither owns a dental practice.

Savannah and Ray, the founders of Dental Executive Coaching

The shared belief

Expectations become repeatable when people have a usable system, real training, and coaching that fits the work.

Telling someone to “do better” is not implementation. DEC makes the work visible, builds a process people can use, trains it in the real setting, and improves it from what actually happens.

Photo by Ray Piercy

Dental-operations insider

Savannah Brown

Savannah is a licensed Expanded Functions Dental Assistant in Tennessee and a current lead assistant. She has seven years of chairside experience across three dental practices.

In each practice, her work grew beyond the chair into training, systems, process improvement, and administration. Her DEC perspective is grounded in how people, handoffs, workflows, and day-to-day systems operate around patient care.

Licensed EFDA in Tennessee
Current lead assistant
Seven years chairside across three practices

Her boundary: Savannah is not a dentist. She does not diagnose, choose treatment, or teach clinical technique for DEC.

Photo by Ray Piercy

Business operator

Ray Piercy

Ray’s experience spans multi-unit operations, acquisition integration and turnarounds, logistics and business analysis, sales, training, and complex project delivery.

His current work includes enterprise projects with C-suite leaders, from roadmapping and strategy through implementation. He holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Multi-unit operations and turnaround experience
Enterprise project delivery with C-suite leaders
MBA and bachelor’s degree in economics

His boundary: Ray is not a dentist. He has never worked in or owned a dental practice, and he does not teach clinical care.

DEC’s lane

Business education, with the limits left visible.

DEC teaches systems, leadership, training, team capability, business measures, and operating decisions. It does not provide clinical, legal, tax, insurance, coding, cybersecurity, investment, or practice-transaction advice.

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