Belonging & Impact Strategic Enablement Partner

Northwestern Mutual • Milwaukee, WI

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About The Position

The Belonging & Impact Strategic Enablement Partner is responsible for ensuring disciplined, consistent execution of enterprise Belonging & Impact priorities across Network Offices. This role functions as a force multiplier, strengthening judgment to focus on impact to outcomes, multiplying talent, reducing complexity, and protecting enterprise standards at scale. Enablement Partners focus on enabling field and Home Office leaders and systems to execute proven approaches with confidence. Primary audiences being local Belonging & Impact Leads, field Network Office Leadership Teams, and Home Office Partners (e.g. Performance Team members and other office consultants), This role provides enterprise leverage to accelerate results. It balances meeting leaders where they are and:

* Shapes how large numbers of leaders interpret and apply enterprise intent
* Prevents drift, over‑customization, and fragmentation across the network
* Requires calm, credible boundary‑setting with senior leaders
* Influences without positional authority in performance‑driven environments

Success depends on mature judgment, political fluency, and emotional steadiness developed through significant experience and maturity.

Requirements

• B.S. degree
• 10+ years of significant diversity and inclusion experience.
• Prior responsibility working in and managing/coaching others through large, complex, matrixed systems
• Experience navigating reputational, compliance, and execution risk and a role responsible for keeping systems from breaking under pressure
• Change management experience, specifically behavior change
• Empathy paired with objective analysis
• Professional courage and diplomacy
• Growth mindset - curiosity, adaptability, and continuous learning
• Practical, solutions-oriented mindset
• High integrity and confidentiality

Nice To Haves

• Coaching certification preferred or significant experience
• Intercultural development Inventory Qualified Administrator (ideal)
• Experience in financial services, independent contractor, competitive sales organization, distribution system environments (preferred)
• Proven ability to influence leaders (informal or non) across all levels, roles, experiences, backgrounds

Responsibilities

• Support Network Office Belonging & Impact Leads and field leaders in using Home Office resources and programs
• Encourage consistent application of tools, language, and intervention patterns
• Reduce variability created by improvisation or inconsistent execution
• Coach Network Office Belonging & Impact Leads and their local councils and ambassadors on operating effectively within enterprise expectations
• Reinforce local leadership readiness (MP, leadership teams, local Belonging & Impact Leads) using approved frameworks and language
• Support leaders in navigating uncertainty while staying inside guardrails, provide leadership coaching when deemed appropriate to address opportunities and increase impact
• Maintain alignment to enterprise frameworks and intervention models
• Redirect requests toward approved options to preserve consistency and scale
• Provide enablement and coaching to Performance Team and other Home Office partners to build confidence and capability to integrate Belonging & Impact within their roles
• Reinforce inclusive leadership expectations identified through performance consulting
• Provide clarity, tools, and escalation support when uncertainty arises
• Maintain clear, disciplined handoffs between coaching and enablement functions
• Identify recurring challenges and capability gaps across Network Offices
• Surface risks, readiness issues, and systemic constraints to Field Belonging & Impact leadership
• Inform refinement of tools and enablement assets based on observed patterns
• Stabilize execution when offices oscillate between over‑reaction and avoidance

Benefits

• Compensation Range: Pay Range - Start: $118,960.00 Pay Range - End: $178,440.00
• Geographic Specific Pay Structure: Structure 110: $130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD Structure 115: $136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
• standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable
• Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.
• Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce.
• We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior