Senior Organizational Development Consultant

Senior Organizational Development Consultant with deep expertise partnering with executive leaders to drive organizational performance, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and enable high-performing teams. Proven ability to design and deliver integrated solutions across executive coaching, leadership team dynamics, and strategic planning, aligned to business priorities and organizational strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide 1:1 coaching to senior and executive leaders to enhance self-awareness, decision-making, influence, and leadership impact

• Diagnose and improve team effectiveness, including trust, accountability, decision-making clarity, and conflict resolution

• Facilitate candid dialogue among senior leaders while maintaining psychological safety and confidentiality

• Apply evidence-based frameworks (e.g., team effectiveness models, decision frameworks) to shift behaviors and outcomes

• Design and facilitate executive-level strategic planning sessions, retreats, and offsites

• Translate strategy into actionable priorities, aligned goals, and governance structures

• Lead high-impact workshops on topics such as vision/mission alignment, operating models, and cross-functional collaboration

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, balancing insight, challenge, and discretion

• Conduct targeted stakeholder interviews and synthesize insights into themes that inform strategy and interventions

• Tailor solutions to organizational context rather than applying one-size-fits-all approaches

• Build and sustain strong, trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders

• Anticipate client needs and proactively offer strategic guidance

• Communicate complex insights clearly and concisely for executive audiences

• Deliver highly engaging, outcome-driven facilitation for senior audiences

• Adapt in real time to group dynamics and emerging needs

• Balance structure with flexibility to ensure meaningful dialogue and tangible results

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Business, or related field

• 8 years of progressive experience in organizational development, leadership development, or management consulting

Additional Qualifications:

• ICF-certified coach (PCC or higher)

• Demonstrated experience providing executive coaching to senior leaders (Director, VP, C-suite)

• Proven track record designing and facilitating executive-level workshops, retreats, and strategic planning sessions

• Experience working with senior leadership teams on team effectiveness and dynamics

• Strong consulting and diagnostic skills, including stakeholder interviews and synthesis of qualitative insights

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive audiences

• Ability to manage multiple client engagements and navigate complex, matrixed environments

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience partnering with federal or regulated environments (if relevant to your work)

• Advanced degree (MA/MS, MBA, Ed.D, or Ph.D.) in OD, Organizational Psychology, or related field

• Additional certifications (e.g., Hogan, Leadership Circle, CCL, EQ-i, Korn Ferry, etc.)

• Deep expertise in leadership team effectiveness frameworks, decision-making models (e.g., RAPID), and conflict navigation

• Experience designing and delivering multi-component leadership development programs (coaching, workshops, assessments, follow-through)

• Strong facilitation of sensitive or high-stakes conversations with executive stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to build trust quickly and manage senior client relationships with professionalism and discretion

• Experience translating strategy into operational plans, priorities, and governance structures

• Skilled at balancing data-driven insights with practical, actionable recommendations

• High emotional intelligence with the ability to read group dynamics and adapt in real time

Professional Skills:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision making capabilities

• High attention to detail

• Superior interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment under strict deadlines

• Demonstrated outstanding level of professionalism, including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplo