Learning & Leadership Development Director

LEO Events; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

LEO Events is seeking a Sr. Manager, Learning & Development to lead the systems, programs, and partnerships that help employees build skills, strengthen performance, and grow throughout their careers.

You will shape the learning roadmap, manage learning tech, and strengthen onboarding and leadership development. Partner with People & Process, department heads, and program leads to translate business needs into effective instruction, establish competency frameworks, and deliver companywide

Qualifications

• Significant experience in learning and development, talent development, organizational development, HR, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop learning programs, competency frameworks, and practical employee resources.
• Experience implementing or administering an LMS or comparable learning platform.
• Strong facilitation, communication, consulting, and project management skills.
• Ability to translate complex knowledge into clear instruction and use feedback and data to improve learning.
• Curiosity about LEO’s business and willingness to travel periodically for onsite learning and employee development.

Responsibilities

• Learning Strategy & Systems: Develop and maintain a phased learning and development roadmap and annual learning calendar aligned with business priorities and employee needs.
• Learning Strategy & Systems: Lead LMS implementation, launch, and administration, including learning assignments, employee access, completion tracking, and reporting.
• Learning Strategy & Systems: Partner with People to coordinate required training, maintain completion records, and follow up on outstanding requirements.
• Learning Strategy & Systems: Manage the approved learning budget and external vendors and use feedback and data to assess effectiveness and improve programs.
• Competencies & Career Development: Establish a common competency framework and partner with Department Heads to define role-specific skills, observable behaviors, and proficiency expectations at each job level.
• Competencies & Career Development: Connect competency expectations to learning resources, development goals, and practical experiences.
• Competencies & Career Development: Develop cross-functional learning opportunities, including department immersions, shadowing, onsite learning, and stretch assignments in partnership with Systems & Development and department leadership.
• Competencies & Career Development: Create consistent tools for developmental feedback, checkpoints, and tracking skill progression.
• Learning Programs & Leadership Development: Design and deliver engaging companywide learning through workshops, presentations, digital resources, and experiential learning.
• Learning Programs & Leadership Development: Build structured development programs for new and experienced leaders aligned with LEO’s People Leader Expectations.
• Learning Programs & Leadership Development: Equip supervisors and program leads with practical tools for coaching, feedback, accountability, and employee development.
• Learning Programs & Leadership Development: Help subject matter experts translate their knowledge into effective instruction and engage external experts when specialized support is needed.

Skills

Learning & Development

Talent Development

Organizational Development

LMS Implementation

Facilitation

Project Management

Communication

Data-driven Improvement

Travel willingness

Tools

LMS

Job description

LEO Events is seeking a Sr. Manager, Learning & Development to lead the systems, programs, and partnerships that help employees build skills, strengthen performance, and grow throughout their careers.

You will shape the learning roadmap, manage learning tech, and strengthen onboarding and leadership development. Partner with People & Process, department heads, and program leads to translate business needs into effective instruction, establish competency frameworks, and deliver companywide