Managing Director - Leadership Advisory Consulting

Modern Executive Solutions

11h•$185,000 - $215,000•Remote

About The Position

Modern Executive Solutions partners with leading organizations to modernize leadership and talent by connecting leader and leadership-team development with the culture and organizational conditions needed for success. The Managing Director in the Consulting Practice leads work across leadership assessment, leadership development, team effectiveness, and culture, with leadership development as the primary focus. Assessment informs development priorities, coaching, and broader talent decisions. The role leads tailored client consulting engagements and contributes to the ongoing development and expansion of Modern’s leadership academies. The Managing Director translates business and leadership challenges into practical solutions and development experiences that strengthen capability and support sustained behavior change. The role is accountable for high-quality engagements and trusted executive relationships, shaping solutions, leading consulting teams, managing delivery and engagement economics, and ensuring measurable client value. The position also supports client loyalty, retention, and partnership expansion. Working alongside Partners, the Managing Director contributes subject matter expertise to business development, including client discussions, solution design, proposals, scoping, and pricing; Partners lead sales pursuits. This is a hands-on consulting leadership role combining client counsel, disciplined engagement management, colleague development, and ownership of client and participant experience. The role also supports leadership academy design and continuous improvement; develops executive relationships; contributes to client retention and expansion; leads consulting teams and quality standards; coaches colleagues; and improves methodologies, tools, and offerings. The position is remote in the United States. The listed pay range is $185,000–$215,000 USD per year.

Requirements

Progressive consulting or professional-services experience, with substantial accountability for leading complete client engagements.
Strong record designing and delivering leadership development programs, executive workshops, and leadership-team effectiveness engagements.
Experience connecting leadership development with culture, organizational change, or broader talent priorities.
Accountability for engagement delivery, teams, budgets, resources, and profitability.
Experience building trusted relationships with executive sponsors and senior stakeholders across functions.
Evidence of sustained client relationships, repeat engagements, or expansion resulting from successful delivery.
Experience contributing as a subject matter expert to sales discussions, solution design, proposals, scoping, and pricing.
Experience leading and developing consulting colleagues and coordinating specialist contributors.
Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
Relevant accreditation required for any specialist assessment tools or services delivered.

Nice To Haves

Direct executive assessment experience.
Experience across at least two industries, ideally including large or global organizations.
Experience developing cohort-based leadership programs or executive academies.
Advanced degree in organizational psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, organizational development, or a related field.
Relevant coaching qualifications and assessment certifications.

Responsibilities

Lead engagements across leadership assessment, development, team effectiveness, and culture, integrating disciplines where useful to client outcomes.
Translate client priorities into outcomes, solution designs, workplans, and measures of impact.
Design and deliver tailored leadership assessment and development programs, executive workshops, and leadership-team engagements.
Facilitate senior groups to generate insight, build alignment, and commit to practical action.
Help clients connect leadership expectations and behaviors with desired culture and business strategy.
Integrate assessment, feedback, coaching, and workplace application into development journeys; contribute directly to assessment delivery within areas of expertise.
Coordinate consulting colleagues and specialists, setting clear responsibilities and consistent delivery standards.
Manage engagement scope, timelines, budgets, resources, and profitability; anticipate risks and resolve issues early.
Support leadership academy development and expansion through program design, content development, facilitation, and continuous improvement.
Work with colleagues, faculty, coaches, and executive contributors to create connected development experiences.
Connect assessment insights, individual development priorities, cohort learning, and practical application throughout participant journeys.
Apply learning from client consulting to academy programming and relevant academy insights to client work.
Evaluate participant feedback and development outcomes to improve program quality, relevance, and impact.
Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, senior stakeholders, and participants through effective counsel and delivery.
Understand stakeholder expectations, business priorities, and evolving client needs; lead dialogue about progress, insights, outcomes, and concerns.
Build continuity beyond individual deliverables through follow-through, results reviews, and discussion of future priorities.
Identify opportunities to extend or broaden client work based on demonstrated value and client needs, partnering with the relevant Partner on next steps.
Support client retention and advocacy by providing insightful, responsive, dependable service.
Participate as a subject matter expert in Partner-led sales discussions and help diagnose prospective client needs.
Contribute to proposals, presentations, solution designs, scope development, resource estimates, and pricing; ensure proposed work is deliverable, appropriately resourced, and commercially sound.
Support transitions from sales to delivery by clarifying commitments, expectations, and intended outcomes.
Take accountability for the rigor, relevance, and quality of work delivered under the Managing Director’s leadership.
Tailor solutions to client business contexts and existing frameworks, using Modern intellectual property where valuable.
Lead consulting teams with clear expectations, effective delegation, and timely developmental feedback.
Coach colleagues and strengthen their consulting judgment, facilitation, and client-management capabilities.
Convert engagement learning into improved methodologies, tools, offerings, and shared knowledge.
Bring fresh thinking on leadership and culture, including considered use of technology and AI to improve insight, delivery, and client value.