The Role

We'relooking for a Director, Leadership & OrganizationalDevelopmentto leadhow we build, strengthen, and sustain leadership capability across the firm. You'llshape our enterprise leadership development strategy, bring a practical internal consulting lens to organizational needs, and design development experiences that move leaders and the business forward.This role will build on our cutting-edgeleadership development portfolio while bringing fresh thinking, practical internal consulting, and innovative experiential design to our global talent agenda.

This role is based in Chicago.You'llpartner with colleagues and stakeholders globally and report to the Global Head of Talent Management.

WhatYou’llDo

Leadership Development Strategy

• Lead and evolve Morningstar's enterprise leadership development portfolio, ensuring flagship experiences stay credible, distinctive, globally relevant, and connected to business priorities.

• Design practical, high-impact development experiences for leaders at critical career stages: emerging, high-potential, senior, and enterprise leaders.

• Build experiential learning approaches, including simulations, action learning, leadership labs, cohorts, and business challenges, that help leaders apply capabilities in real work.

OrganizationalDevelopment& Internal Consulting

• Serve as an internal consultant to senior leaders, diagnosing leadership, organizational effectiveness, and team performance challenges and designing practical interventions that improve execution and collaboration.

• Facilitate leadership team sessions and strategic working sessions that clarify priorities, roles, decision rights, ways of working, and accountability for outcomes.

• Partner with Workforce Planning and other People & Culture teams to translate workforce trends, business strategy, and evolving ways of working into leadership capability and organizational effectiveness priorities.

Connected Talent Strategy

• Connect leadership development to broader talent priorities: succession, internal mobility, career growth, manager effectiveness, culture, engagement, and AI-enabled changes in how we work.

• Use data, talent insights, and program metrics to improve offerings,demonstrateimpact, and focusinvestments on measurable business and talent outcomes.

• Lead complex, high-visibility initiatives from concept through execution, managing stakeholders, vendors, and participant experience.

WhatWe’reLooking For

• 10+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, organization development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, human capital consulting, ora relatedfield.

• Proven ability to design and deliver leadership experiences that improveleadercapability, accelerate readiness, and support business priorities in a complex,global organization.

• Stronginternal or externalconsulting judgment, with experience diagnosing business and organizational needs, advising senior leaders, and turning strategy into practical talent or organization effectiveness solutions.

• Track recordof collaborating and influencing within an organization across businesses,regionsand functions to create buy-in, ensure alignment and deliverimpactfultalent solutions. 

• Experience improving leadership team effectiveness, role clarity, operating rhythms, culture, engagement, changemanagement, or workforce transformation outcomes.

• Track recordof building experiential, memorable, and practical development solutions that move beyond traditional training and help leaders solve real businesschallenges.

• Executive presence and facilitation skillssufficient to lead senior-level discussions, surface tradeoffs, and create alignment across diverse perspectives.

• Ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with business leaders, HRBPs, Talent Management, Workforce Planning, and other People & Culture partners.

• Data-informedsolutioning, with the ability to use feedback, talent insights, engagement data, and program metrics to sharpen decisions and show impact.

• Clear, concise communication skills, including the ability to simplify complexity and tailor messages for senior audiences.

Preferred

• Experience in knowledge-intensive industries: financial services, fintech, investment research, asset management, data, technology, or consulting.

Compensation and Benefits

At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

• Financial Health

  • 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary

  • Stock Ownership Potential

  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission

• Physical Health 

  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages

  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual

  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance

• Emotional Health 

  • Trust-Based Time Off

  • 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program

  • 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave

  • Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave

  • Adoption Assistance

  • Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities

  • Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses

  • Tuition Reimbursement

• Social Health 

  • Charitable Matching Gifts program

  • Dollars for Doers volunteer program

  • Paid volunteering days

  • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Total Cash Compensation Range

Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.