Allan Silva

Team + Executive Coaching

Summary of experience 

For over fifteen years, Allan has prioritized providing leadership development to rapid-growth organizations and technology companies. He currently delivers the C-Suite team and executive coaching for companies that stake their brand on innovation, including Salesforce, Airbnb, Lucasfilm, Atlassian, Sonos, and Twitter. His specialty areas are coaching senior leaders moving into functional and general management roles, developing high-performing executive teams, and coaching executives who are leading large-scale growth/change initiatives. Prior to his focus in the business world, he was the CEO of a national nonprofit dedicated to ending gender-based violence. In this role, he was selected to serve as a public health policy adviser during President Clinton’s second administration. Funded by the Federal DOJ, he was directly responsible for building a nation wide network of coordinated community response systems to sexual assault on federally funded college campuses. Allan brings his acumen in building political coalitions and multi-system stakeholder management to coaching business leaders on how to think and navigate politically in and across global organizations.


Related Experience


  • Coached leaders in technology, biotech, healthcare, and entertainment industries on leading change, cross-functional performance, innovation cultures, strategic influence, and political savvy

  • Coached executive team through CEO transition of a founder-led global technology company.

  • Coached a senior cross-functional team through leading operational change and product innovation for a global online marketplace company.

  • Lead consultant, designer, and facilitator of an enterprise-wide culture transformation to high-performing teams for a global consumer electronics company.

  • Lead consultant, designer and facilitator of a 6-month Design Thinking Innovation Fellowship for UCSF School of Medicine, CoreAlign Network


Certifications and Tools

  • New Ventures West Professional Coach

  • Immunity to Change Facilitator

  • Leadership Circle Profile 360

  • Hogan Leadership Assessment Suite

  • Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0, MSCEIT

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • Art of Developmental Coaching