Senior Associate/ Leadership Development Methodologies/ Solutions HUB

OUR LEADERSHIP ADVISORY SERVICES PRACTICE The Leadership Advisory Services (LAS) Practice is an exciting, vibrant and uniquely dynamic practice environment within Spencer Stuart. Emerging in recent years as a key area of strategic focus and growth for the Firm, LAS has experienced an accelerated growth trajectory in both solution diversification and scale. The LAS Practice today encompasses a team of 180+ globally. In the past five years, the practice has consistently experienced double digit year-over-year topline revenue growth. Operating synergistically alongside the Firm market-leading Executive Search business, LAS professionals provide advice and partnership to clients navigating a range of key leadership and talent issues across 7 solutions: Executive Search CEO / CXO succession CEO / CXO acceleration Assessment & Development Team performance Board effectiveness Culture activation ROLE OF SENIOR ASSOCIATE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES At Spencer Stuart, our Solutions represent our commitment to continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence across our organization, and our Solutions Hub is the enabling function that will allow us to bring the best possible market-ready solutions to our clients. As part of the Solution Hub, the Methodologies team is responsible for ensuring the building blocks to those solutions are state-of-the-art, rigoros and scalable. The role of the Senior Associate Leadership Development Methodologies has the following responsibilities: Works with the Methodologies Lead and the team on both the 1-2 year horizon and the 3+ year horizon, supporting the development, standardization and maintenance of state-of-the-art leadership development methodologies and tools, ensuring they are and remain relevant and impactful and enable us to scale our leadership development approaches Leads on workstreams and sprints together with practitioners in the field, such as current state SWOT analysis, codifying best in class feedback, development planning and progress review process; defining distinctive POV on leadership development; creating library of content and interventions; ensures timely delivery and effective teaming Works with the Spencer Stuart Technology team to determine enhancement to our technology solutions Partners with practitioners on flagship client projects to advance our leadership development approach and drive innovation KEY RELATIONSHIPS Reports to: Methodologies Lead Other key relationships: Various sprint teams Spencer Stuart Technology team Methodologies Lead Executive Assistant Colleagues in the Solutions Hub Local peers and colleagues REQUIRED EXPERIENCE Five or more years of experience in leadership development, leadership advisory or other professional services settings An advanced degree from a highly competitive university in Organizational psychology or related field Certification or experience using psychometrics, such as Hogan, OPQ or Sova PQ ADVANTAGEOUS EXPERIENCE PhD in Organizational Psychology or related field Coaching Certification Direct interaction or experience with executive-level clients CRITICAL CAPABILITIES FOR SUCCESS Passion for and expertise in leadership development Result-focused, learning-oriented, self-driven, and pro-active Ability to take the lead on, shape, bring structure to and deliver on ambiguous initiatives Great collaborator and relationship builder Strong critical and conceptual thinker Excellent written and spoken knowledge of the English language Good understanding and/or passion to learn about the developments of AI in the field PREFERRED CAPABILITIES Superior business writing skills, as evidenced through project work or writing samples to be provided upon request. 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