Leadership Development Director
About The Position
The Leadership Development Director will shape and own HSS’s leadership development strategy, curriculum architecture, and portfolio across aspiring, frontline, mid-level, and executive leaders. The role will connect leadership development to skills-based workforce planning, succession, and mobility, and guide the development of a Healthcare Leadership Academy that builds on existing programs. The director will establish an approach for AI-enabled leadership learning, oversee leadership assessments and coaching, facilitate programs, and prepare internal and per diem facilitators to meet HSS standards. The role will define business measures for programs, monitor portfolio impact, and report results to senior leaders. In partnership with the Director, Learning & Systems and the Educational Institute, the director will govern leadership-learning content, manage external vendors and academic partners, and approve design direction.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the HSS Way of Leading and leadership curriculum architecture across aspiring, frontline, mid-level, and executive leadership.
- Manage the leadership portfolio, including roadmaps, funding trade-offs, decisions to scale or retire programs, and a sequenced 2027–2030 build.
- Shape the transition toward a Healthcare Leadership Academy that embeds, consolidates, and extends effective HSS programs.
- Define leadership skills and readiness measures with Talent Management, using Workday skills and talent data to identify capability strengths and gaps and ensuring programs are tagged to relevant skills.
- Contribute leadership capability insights to workforce planning, succession, and mobility decisions.
- Set the approach and quality guardrails for AI in leadership learning, including personalization, AI-supported coaching, and AI-assisted content.
- Evaluate AI learning and coaching tools with IT and vendors and decide which tools to pilot, scale, or decline.
- Own the leadership assessment and tools suite and the debrief model that translates results into development plans.
- Facilitate leadership programs and prepare internal and per diem facilitators to operate according to HSS standards.
- Agree on business measures with executive sponsors before programs are built, then report on leadership favorability, behavior change, capability movement, skills readiness, and performance improvement.
- Report portfolio performance to the VP and the CPO at least twice a year.
- Serve with the Director, Learning & Systems on the ELC and partner with the Educational Institute to align content and avoid duplication.
- Set content governance for leadership learning, including quality standards, AI guardrails, review cycles, and decision rights; approve briefs and design direction with the Educational Institute.
- Manage external vendors and academic partners.
Benefits
- Additional benefits consistent with the role
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
