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Solomon Coyle Earns 2026 Brandon Hall Group Silver HCM Excellence Award for Its Sales Leadership Program
The 12-week, cohort-based program was recognized for its practical approach to helping contract furniture sales leaders build stronger teams and drive consistent performance.
BLUFFTON, South Carolina, August 17, 2026 — Solomon Coyle, a firm with 22 years of experience in the commercial interiors industry is a Silver Award honoree in the Sales Leadership Development Program category of the 2026 HCM Excellence Awards, a program recognized as the “Academy Awards of Human Capital Management.” The Sales Leadership Program, produced in association with Artisan Learning, is a 12-week, cohort-based program that equips sales leaders with the skills and strategies to drive growth and profitability.
The distinguishing feature of the program lies in its blended learning approach. As a Silver Award honoree recognized in the same category that included programs from Google, Adobe and ADP, the program is a testament to our cutting-edge approach to learning. The experience mixes synchronous and asynchronous learning, pre-recorded videos and live conversations with the Solomon Coyle experts, and interactions with peers via discussion boards, virtual meetings, and one-on-ones with accountability partners.
Another novel aspect of the program’s learning approach is an emphasis on real-world skill building. While many leadership training courses rely on abstract case studies, Solomon Coyle’s program helps commercial interiors distributor sales leaders understand the sales challenges their company is facing. The team of consultants says that’s what makes the training directly applicable. “We use a fictional company to give our sales leaders scenarios and data to work with as they learn concepts and build skills, but then we ask them to bring in their own data and experiences whenever possible to apply the skills they’re learning,” says Solomon Coyle Lead Instructional Designer Rachel Serago. This real-world, data-based approach takes the program beyond training to a personalized experience, helping sales leaders construct actionable team strategies. After the Sales Leadership Program, leaders leave with a Sales Leader Strategy & Tactic Playbook, developed in collaboration with independent learning consultant Kamaria Scott and coaching protocols built specifically around their team’s unique sales data, strengths, and challenges.
Solomon Coyle’s program has successfully trained sales leaders at many of the leading commercial interiors distributors in the country, with participants reporting immediate improvement in competency, averaging gains of 15% across the program’s focus areas based on pre- and post-program surveys. The program focuses on immediate, actionable takeaways that can be applied directly after completing the training, showing how an equipped sales leader is the key to a successful and consistent sales pipeline.
“We developed the Sales Leadership Program as a result of analyzing the data from our financial benchmarking, which indicated a need for more effective sales leadership. This program focuses on active skill building. I think that’s what enabled our program to be recognized alongside those developed by much larger companies. We’re proud of the team that put together this product, and more importantly, the fact that we continually bring high-quality, world-class programs for the commercial interiors industry,” says Founding Principal David Solomon.
For more information about Solomon Coyle’s award-winning Sales Leadership Program, visit www.solomoncoyle.com/education/sales-leadership-program/.