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At 5.12 Solutions, our mission is to prepare leaders and teams for the future of work by developing emotionally intelligent leadership, building resilient teams, and fostering cultures of trust and performance. Through executive coaching, leadership development, and team acceleration programs, we help organizations navigate complexity, align around shared goals, and drive measurable, human-centered growth.

All of our programs are available online and can be delivered virtually

Most Common Reasons Clients Call Us

Today's chaotic and complex business environment takes a toll on your leaders and their teams.

Shift in Leadership

When there is a change in team members on senior and executive leadership teams.

Major Transitions

When the organization is about to go through or recently underwent a major transition.

Disconnected Dynamics

When rigid and disconnected relationships result in meetings after the meeting and slow downs.

Trust Issues

When there is a need to increase trust, productive conflict and agility on a leadership, functional or cross-functional team.

Scaling Strains

When the business is scaling fast and leadership capacity isn’t keeping pace with complexity.

Leadership Misalignment

When executives notice a gap in trust and capability between C-suite and lower-level leadership.

Role Readiness

When an individual leader is preparing for a change in role or critical responsibilities.

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Today’s complex business environment demands more

Your people need better tools and we have them

Executive Coaching

Even your best leaders need a guide. Give them the skills to tackle conflict, low morale and their own behavioral challenges.

Leadership Development

The future depends on a strong leadership culture. Shift to higher retention, lower turnover, and increased productivity.

Team Acceleration

Team cohesion is within reach. Develop a shared vision, a strong foundation of trust, and transparent communication.

Productive Conflict - Beyond a Culture of Nice

We leverage our Culture Transformation system to help growth minded leaders and executive teams to measurably improve human performance to enable better business results.

Old school coaching didn’t stick, so we innovated

Experience our cloud-based coaching accountability platform, Coachmetrix

Measurement

Proof your investment is working. We continually measure your leader’s behavioral and perception changes with ongoing pulse feedback.

Habit Tracking

Accelerate behavioral change by tracking and reinforcing habits through daily, weekly or monthly automated reminders.

Manage Programs

Everything in one place. All action plans, measurement, habit tracking, resources, discussions, assignments and more in one secure location.

Meaningful and Measurable Change From Global Leadership Experts

Sal Silvester is an industry thought-leader, innovator and internationally sought-after Executive Coach and Team Acceleration Coach. He is a blogger, keynote speaker and author of four books: The Deeply Human Workplace (Amazon international best seller), Ignite! The 4 Essential Rules for Emerging Leaders (#1 on Amazon’s Movers & Shakerslist); Unite! The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders (Amazon international best seller), and a collaboration with Marshall Goldsmith entitled Stakeholder Centered Coaching: Maximizing Your Impact as a Coach.

Working with teams and leaders is Sal’s passion. His unique perspective has been nurtured through his experience over the past 25 years as an Army Officer, an executive at Accenture, as Founder/CEO of 5.12 Solutions and developer and founder of Coachmetrix to affect positive leadership behavior change that extends beyond the conference table to the kitchen table.

It takes more than just leadership training to nurture confident, “on purpose” leaders who create clarity, alignment and an inspired workforce. We’ve raised the bar with a leadership development system to help people make meaningful and measurable change that drives better business results. Contact us for a complimentary insight session and connect with our newsletter, blog, podcast, books, and keynotes to learn more about our unique perspectives.

Sal Silvester

Founder and CEO, 5.12 Solutions Consulting Group and Coachmetrix

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A Passion for Leadership

Sal Silvester brings his passion and expertise for leadership development to his executive coaching, writing and speaking keynotes. He’s a master at illuminating the shifts all leaders must make to successfully navigate complex and chaotic environments that come with the territory of corporate leadership. Sal delights audiences and readers with stories and characters that come to life and are relatable in any organization.

Unite! continues the journey that Sal Silvester took leaders on with Ignite! and helps shift their mindset to balance both results and relationships. A must read.” — Marshall Goldsmith, The Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World

What Our Clients Say

Really appreciate the expertise, focus and leadership Sal Silvester at 5.12 Solutions brought to our strategy deployment development session. He worked with us through planning, organization, execution and follow-up to ensure we had a simple, clear path forward for the teams. Thanks again and looking forward to our continued relationship as we progress on our leadership journey.

David Ivan

COO, AME Region at Vestas

Sal has made an enormous impact on my leadership and our organization more broadly. He has a unique ability to listen, distill and guide in a way that is rooted in your personal and business specific context but also grounded in research and best practice. He is kind and caring, but also unafraid to speak uncomfortable truths back to you, as any coach should. Working with him - and putting in the work to his process -- has been one of the best decisions I've made. I couldn't recommend him more highly to a fellow executive or leadership team.

Ben Hubbard

CEO & Co-founder at Parsyl

We hired Sal Silvester for help with some team dynamics, using DiSC and other tools. We were originally planning to be in-person, but had to move to online due to the pandemic. Sal was a masterful facilitator -- he was prepared, thoughtful and an expert on using the technology. Some of my colleagues were a little skeptical, but Sal facilitated some excellent breakouts where we had transparent and vulnerable discussions, leading to greater understanding and more effective teamwork. We are planning to hire him for more engagements. I have worked with and listened to many facilitators over the years, but Sal is definitely one of the best -- he has my highest recommendation!

Julian Hsu

Chair Of The Board Of Directors at Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG)

We started working with Sal and his really great team team because we wanted to elevate our leadership effectiveness, operate at a higher level as an executive team and build our leadership bench to drive better business results. We tried a few different approaches prior to working with Sal and his team, and they didn't work as well. Sal's team listened to our needs and customized an engagement that worked for us, and that we have used in many ways now, re-engaging him and his team half a dozen times or so. Sal and his team are experts in helping build aligned, agile and healthy executive teams and confident leaders at every level in an organization. They have been coaching and training for 20+ years and are thought leaders in the leadership development space. But most of all, Sal and his team have a huge heart and love helping people. They are the real deal.

Michael McNair

CEO of Yes Energy

Sal is a genuine, authentic and one-of-a-kind partner as he makes a consistent effort to continuously strengthen his relationship with our team. Through his commitment and thoroughness, Sal customizes content that fits within the objectives of our leadership programs and incessantly delivers at a high-level year-after-year. His ability to create meaningful and successful workshops in collaboration with his clients is instrumental to meet the needs of the business and align with our culture. We have had the privilege to work with Sal for 4+ years so for anyone who is considering a future engagement with Sal, we highly recommend him and his team!

Jen Keller

Sr. Global Manager, Learning & Leadership Development - Columbia Sportswear Company

I have told so many stories about the work that my leadership team and I have done with Sal in the past. We all connected so well with his style and approach. Our work with Sal was incredibly useful, and we have treasured our experience together. It was the one leadership development experience for me that has truly stuck and one that I continue to use day to day regardless of role or setting.

Pat Risner

President, US Coal, BHP Billiton

I recently completed a 12-month executive coaching engagement with Sal and 5.12 Solutions. I benefited from Sal’s program in ways that far transcend my career and workplace. On a practical basis, I came away from the program with multiple day-to-day tactics for improving various management disciplines – in areas including time management, choice management and team development. Sal strikes a very effective combination of listening to his clients, customizing action plans around specific circumstances, and then establishing measurable accountability tools over the longer term. I would highly recommend Sal and 5.12 Solutions as an executive coach and leadership consultant – in any industry and regardless of one’s specific role.

Peter W. Albro

Chief Operating Officer at Broe Real Estate Group

We worked with Sal recently on a project to help us build team alignment and to better understand our different communication styles. I think all of us were skeptical at the outset. But Sal has such a personable way of allowing people to buy-in at their speed, and to gently guide the conversations and sessions. When we'd get off track, he'd pull us back to where we needed to be, without being 'bossy', etc. At the end of the engagement, I can wholeheartedly say that our team is stronger and has much more self awareness and empathy towards each other. I would hire Sal and 5.12 Solutions again in a heartbeat!

Tony George

Former Managing Partner, Vermilion

Sal is a seasoned coach and excellent listener who routinely provides well researched and actionable advice. As a recipient of Sal's coaching, I've seen first hand how our work together has improved and expanded my leadership capabilities. Additionally, Sal has delivered training to several dozen employees at our company and I've enjoyed watching these teammates accelerate their leadership capabilities. I highly recommend Sal to any executives and/or management teams seeking to improve their leadership capabilities and deliver tangible business results.

Kane McCord

Chief Operating Officer at Ibotta, Inc.

We recently engaged 5.12 Solutions to work with our Senior Leadership Team and Extended Leadership Team. This was one of the best investments we’ve made for the company. We not only developed the skills to engage in more productive dialogue, but we now have 40 - 50 of our top leaders in the organization more aligned than ever.

Anil D’souza

Chief Executive Officer, Tolmar Pharmaceuticals

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