Leadership Development Director
About The Position
The Leadership Development Director owns the HSS Way of Leading and the leadership curriculum architecture across aspiring, frontline, mid-level, and executive leaders. The role manages the leadership portfolio as a set of products, setting roadmaps, making funding and scale-or-retire decisions, and planning a sequenced 2027–2030 build toward a Healthcare Leadership Academy that builds on existing HSS programs. The director defines leadership skills and readiness measures with Talent Management, uses Workday skills and talent data to identify capability gaps, and connects development to workforce planning, succession, and mobility. The role sets the approach and safeguards for AI in leadership learning, evaluates tools with IT and vendors, and owns leadership assessments, debriefs, program facilitation, and facilitator preparation. The director establishes business measures with executive sponsors, reports portfolio impact to the VP and CPO at least twice yearly, and partners with the Director, Learning & Systems, the Educational Institute, internal stakeholders, vendors, and academic partners. The position sets leadership-learning content governance and ensures consistency, quality, and alignment across programs.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the HSS Way of Leading and leadership curriculum architecture across the leadership development ladder.
- Manage the leadership portfolio, including roadmaps, funding trade-offs, scale-or-retire decisions, and the sequenced 2027–2030 build.
- Shape the transition from current programs toward a Healthcare Leadership Academy.
- Define leadership skills and readiness measures with Talent Management, use Workday skills and talent data to identify capability strengths and gaps, and ensure leadership programs are tagged to those skills.
- Contribute leadership capability insights to workforce planning, succession, and mobility decisions.
- Set the approach, guardrails, and quality standards 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 determine whether to pilot, scale, or decline them.
- Own the leadership assessment and tools suite and the debrief model that turns results into development plans.
- Facilitate leadership programs and prepare internal and per diem facilitators to meet HSS standards.
- Agree on business measures with executive sponsors before programs are built and report program and portfolio outcomes.
- Report portfolio performance to the VP and 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 EI.
- Manage external vendors and academic partners.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
