Executive Development & Leadership Acceleration Portfolio Director

Leadership development has never been more critical to building a resilient, future-ready organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how executive leaders, senior talent, master practitioners, and high-potential employees prepare for broader enterprise impact across both People Leadership and Expert Leadership career paths. As the strategic architect of the enterprise executive and leadership acceleration portfolio, the Executive Development & Leadership Acceleration Portfolio Lead will translate business strategy, succession priorities, and future capability requirements into transformative development experiences that strengthen leadership effectiveness, accelerate readiness, and build sustainable talent pipelines. Working across a global and highly matrixed environment, you will partner with senior executives, HR leaders, external thought leaders, coaches, and academic institutions to create development journeys that combine coaching, assessments, mentoring, enterprise exposure, action learning, and critical experiences. Your work will directly influence leadership readiness, succession strength, organizational capability, and long-term business performance while ensuring development opportunities are inclusive, evidence-based, and aligned to the future needs of the enterprise. Based in Indianapolis or Columbus, Indiana, this onsite-with-flexibility role is intentionally designed to enable meaningful face-to-face engagement, collaboration, and coaching with senior leaders and stakeholders across the enterprise. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

Shape the enterprise strategy for executive, senior leader, master practitioner, and high-potential development programs that strengthen organizational capability and leadership readiness. Design and evolve differentiated development pathways that accelerate growth across both People Leadership and Expert Leadership career tracks. Build a connected leadership ecosystem that aligns executive development, leadership acceleration, succession readiness, and enterprise talent priorities. Partner with senior business leaders and HR stakeholders to translate future capability requirements into scalable development solutions and experiences. Lead the integration of coaching, assessments, mentoring, sponsorship, action learning, enterprise exposure, and critical assignments into transformative leadership journeys. Establish high-quality external partnerships with executive coaches, universities, faculty members, and thought leaders to deliver best-in-class development experiences. Leverage data, research, participant feedback, and portfolio metrics to continuously improve program effectiveness, readiness outcomes, and investment value. Advance innovative and responsible use of technology and AI-enabled development solutions that enhance personalization, learning effectiveness, and participant impact.