Director, Leadership & Organizational Development (Hybrid)

Morningstar; United States; On-site; USD 161,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Morningstar seeks a Director, Leadership & Organizational Development to shape enterprise leadership development and act as an internal consultant guiding the firm’s leadership agenda. The role is based in Chicago and reports to the Global Head of Talent Management, partnering with global colleagues to design development experiences that move leaders and the business forward.

This role will build on Morningstar’s leadership portfolio, bringing fresh thinking, practical consulting, and innovative

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, organization development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, or related field.
• Proven ability to design and deliver leadership experiences that improve leader capability, accelerate readiness, and support business priorities in a complex, global organization.
• Strong internal or external consulting judgment, with experience diagnosing business and organizational needs, advising senior leaders, and turning strategy into practical talent or organization effectiveness solutions.
• Track record of collaborating and influencing across businesses, regions and functions to create buy-in and deliver impactful talent solutions.
• Experience improving leadership team effectiveness, role clarity, operating rhythms, culture, engagement, change management, or workforce transformation outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve Morningstar’s enterprise leadership development portfolio, ensuring flagship experiences stay credible, distinctive, globally relevant, and connected to business priorities.
• Design practical, high-impact development experiences for leaders at critical career stages: emerging, high-potential, senior, and enterprise leaders.
• Build experiential learning approaches, including simulations, action learning, leadership labs, cohorts, and business challenges, that help leaders apply capabilities in real work.
• Serve as an internal consultant to senior leaders, diagnosing leadership, organizational effectiveness, and team performance challenges and designing practical interventions that improve execution and collaboration.
• Facilitate leadership team sessions and strategic working sessions that clarify priorities, roles, decision rights, ways of working, and accountability for outcomes.
• Partner with Workforce Planning and other People & Culture teams to translate workforce trends, business strategy, and evolving ways of working into leadership capability and organizational effectiveness priorities.
• Connect leadership development to broader talent priorities: succession, internal mobility, career growth, manager effectiveness, culture, engagement, and AI-enabled changes in how we work.

Skills

Leadership development

Organizational development

Organizational effectiveness

Talent management

Human capital consulting

Executive presence

Facilitation

Influence without authority

Data-driven decisions

Job description

Morningstar seeks a Director, Leadership & Organizational Development to shape enterprise leadership development and act as an internal consultant guiding the firm’s leadership agenda. The role is based in Chicago and reports to the Global Head of Talent Management, partnering with global colleagues to design development experiences that move leaders and the business forward.

This role will build on Morningstar’s leadership portfolio, bringing fresh thinking, practical consulting, and innovative