Leadership Acceleration Strategy Consulting Senior Manager

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture's Leadership Acceleration Consulting seeks a Senior Manager to design and deliver strategic leadership programs at CEO and board levels, driving growth with major clients and shaping organizational culture.

You will advise C-suite leaders, build deep executive relationships, and apply AI-enabled tools to improve productivity while ensuring high-margin delivery.

Qualifications

• Able to deliver at the C-suite and Board levels and support leaders and their teams.
• Experienced in leadership strategy, assessment, and development for executives.
• Strong business development, relationship-building, and networking skills.
• Curious and proactive about applying AI-powered tools to business problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and implement strategic leadership programs at the highest levels.
• Engage CEOs, C-suite teams, boards, and senior leaders with differentiated margin.
• Develop networks of senior contacts to create new business opportunities.
• Advise leaders confidentially, building deep relationships for client success.
• Deliver high-quality work that ties leadership insights to commercial outcomes.
• Contextualize leadership insights to cultural and commercial drivers for stakeholders.

Skills

C-suite leadership

Board experience

Business development

Leadership strategy

Executive coaching

AI tools adoption

Job description

Leadership Acceleration Consulting – part of Accenture, is the world’s pre-eminent provider of leadership strategy services. Leadership strategy is the intentional design of the individual leadership styles, the team dynamics and interactions, and the workplace culture that are most likely to enable successful achievement of an organization’s desired future state.We Are:An inclusive and interconnected global team made up of appreciative and constructive individuals who start with what works, build from successes, and are future focused. Our people are eclectic and curious by nature, making us uniquely Leadership Acceleration.Our consultants have varied professional backgrounds, advanced degrees, and industry credentials in psychology, organizational behavior, management, adult learning, and related fields, including education, social work, counseling, and more.Our team is grounded in the rigor of the behavioral sciences and practical realities of commercial and organizational demands.You Are:

• Able to deliver at the C-suite and Board levels in our client systems. You provide dynamic support and leadership advisory to leaders and their teams.

• Skilled at pulling from a wide variety of experiences and expertise to support clients, provide content expertise and leadership, and are deeply committed to improving leadership outcomes through the lens of talent optimization and support.

• A self-motivated, personable, business-savvy individual with significant and diverse experience in our field, looking to join a high-growth, dynamic, and entrepreneurial culture.

• As a Senior Manager, you are responsible for managing and driving growth with existing clients; able to demonstrate proof of growing the practice. You have relevant and extensive experience in working with C-suite leaders, Boards, and are well-versed in leadership strategy, assessment, and development, and demonstrate deep insights and fluency regarding industry context and needs.

• You are accomplished at developing business, bringing great insights to clients, collaborating, building relationships, and thinking flexibly. You are comfortable with ambiguity, have an inquiring, innovative mind, and a strong learning orientation.

• You demonstrate curiosity and enthusiasm for using AI ‑ powered tools to improve productivity and are able to apply AI tools to real business problems with strong quality and risk awareness.

The Work:

• Design, deliver, and implement impactful, large-scale, and strategic consulting programs, at the highest levels, across the suite of Leadership Acceleration’s Leadership Strategy Services: Board Effectiveness, CEO Succession Planning, Culture Change, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Executive Assessment, Advisory Coaching, Identifying and Developing Potential, and Team Development.

• Consistently model and deliver senior-most leadership consulting offerings to CEOs, C-Suite leadership teams, boards, chairs, and other senior-level leaders, credibly and at differentiated margin.

• Develop and maintain a high-caliber network of senior-level contacts throughout the region/market to enable the creation of significant business opportunities.

• Be a trusted and confidential advisor to leaders; build deep, insightful relationships with C-suite leaders and their teams; support their success and help them create impactful cultures.

• Deliver high-quality work to support the client’s business strategy and improve commercial outcomes, and demonstrate mastery of the commercial, contextual, and behavioral levers of value creation.

• Contextualize leadership insights into cultural and commercial drivers for client stakeholders to build their understanding of how leadership impacts outcomes and attainment of business