Leadership Development Consultant

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Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 03-Dec-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

What You'll Do

The Leadership Development Consultant will be responsible for driving strategy and execution of development work aligned to General Partner (GP) development and partner potential. The Leadership Development Consultant role will be responsible for owning the end-to-end experiences for aligned development programs and ensuring the integration across talent management to ensure the development provided is supporting broader talent goals. The Leadership Development Consultant role will be focused on learning solutions that support both the needs of the firm today and the future.

• Establish trusted partnerships with partners inside Human Capital, employing diplomacy, objectivity, high levels of individual discretion and development best practices to create targeted learning interventions by translating business outcomes and strategy into performance outcomes.
• Co-create continuous learning and performance journeys that build critical capabilities and optimize talent performance to achieve enterprise business outcomes for our GP and talent pipeline.
• Independently lead and manage complex project and program development efforts, partnering with senior stakeholders, shared services and external vendors to deliver learning experiences that achieve performance outcomes for GPs and talent pipeline.
• Partner with talent colleagues to drive the strategy for leveraging assessments for GP and talent pipeline development.
• Partner with talent management peers to integrate development experiences into the overarching talent review/succession process.
• Partner with Business HR and senior leaders to proactively create development experiences for home office General Partners (GPs) and those in a talent pipeline.
• Facilitate learning solutions for GPs and leaders across home office.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to learning and performance consultants and design teammates at a variety of levels, using modeling, feedback, and coaching techniques within project work to ensure quality outcomes and support internal talent development.
• Use advanced skills and expertise to apply learner experience research, insights, adult learning principles, processes, technology, techniques, and measures to recommend, implement, and support the creation and continuous optimization of learning experiences to achieve enterprise business outcomes.
  
  

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.

Hiring Minimum: $99200

Hiring Maximum: $168900

Skills/Requirements

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What Experience You'll Need

Bachelor's degree in Education, Organizational Psychology, Human Capital Management, or related field.

7 years of experience in corporate learning, talent management, performance consultation, or similar role, including:

• 5 years of proven experience as a performance consultant, successfully leading others to diagnose and solve complex human performance challenges using a sophisticated set of consultative tools and methodologies.
• Proficient understanding of the Financial Services Industry and Talent Management, with specialization in at least one discipline.
• 2 years of proven experience navigating highly complicated group dynamics and conflicting feedback to recommend solutions that meets all parties' needs while keeping the learner top of mind and work deliverables on track.
• Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**
  
  

Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.

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Awards & Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

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About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

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