Role Summary
The Director – Executive Development is a pivotal role responsible for advancing the readiness of high-potential Directors and Vice Presidents for critical enterprise roles. As the strategic right hand to the Global Head of Executive Development, this leader translates enterprise leadership-development priorities into comprehensive, future-ready solutions that integrate experiences, education, and exposure. The Director owns the end-to-end accelerated development portfolio—designing and delivering high-quality programs, capability-building experiences, and executive accelerators—and ensures offerings form a cohesive pathway that strengthens leader readiness and confidence in the leadership pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Translate leadership-development priorities into actionable, high-impact development experiences for high-potential Directors and Vice Presidents.
- Design and deliver integrated learning experiences, applied practice opportunities, and exposure-based components that strengthen leaders’ enterprise capability.
- Own and manage the end-to-end accelerated development portfolio, ensuring offerings are cohesive, high-quality, and aligned to readiness needs.
- Apply rapid prototyping, iterative testing, and AI-enabled tools to design, refine, and scale development solutions.
- Integrate data, leader insights, and external benchmarks to continuously evolve program quality and portfolio effectiveness.
- Partner with senior leaders, HR, and Talent Management to ensure development offerings reinforce leadership expectations and strengthen confidence in successor readiness.
- Collaborate across Executive Talent Development to ensure alignment, seamless handoffs, and consistent standards across the executive-development ecosystem.
- Deliver executive development sessions with strong facilitation, communication, and executive presence.
- Ensure flawless execution of programs with disciplined attention to quality, sequencing, and participant experience.
- Build and maintain feedback loops, dashboards, and AI-supported analytics to evaluate program impact and drive continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in organizational psychology, Instructional Design, Human Resources, Business Administration, Leadership Development, or related field.
- Required: 10+ years of experience in Leadership Development, talent management, and/or executive coaching
- Required: Demonstrated expertise in executive development design, applied capability building, and experience architecture.
- Required: Proven ability to design and deliver comprehensive development solutions for high-potential leaders.
- Required: Strong portfolio-management capability, integrating multiple offerings into a cohesive pathway.
- Required: Mastery of MVP-style rapid prototyping, iterative design, and insight-driven refinement.
- Required: Advanced AI fluency—uses AI tools to accelerate design, generate content, personalize experiences, support analytics, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Required: Exceptional communication, influence, and change-management capabilities, able to create alignment and engagement across senior audiences.
- Required: Strong inclusive leadership behaviors: team-first orientation, high trust, collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Required: Ability to synthesize data and insights into actionable recommendations and experience enhancements.
- Required: High learning agility, proactive ownership mindset, adaptability, and comfort operating in complex, fast-moving environments.
- Preferred: Experience collaborating with external thought leaders, institutions, or executive-education partners.
- Preferred: Experience supporting executive transitions, onboarding, or coaching engagements.
- Preferred: Background in global, multi-industry, or highly matrixed environments.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in organizational psychology, Instructional Design, Human Resources, Business Administration, Leadership Development, or related field.