The Role
At Morningstar, we know we can only empower investors if our people feel empowered. Great leaders sit at the center of that.
We're looking for a Director, Leadership & Organizational Development to lead how we build, strengthen, and sustain leadership capability across the firm. You'll shape 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-edge leadership 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'll partner with colleagues and stakeholders globally and report to the Global Head of Talent Management.
What You’ll Do
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.
Organizational Development & 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, demonstrate impact, and focus investments on measurable business and talent outcomes.
Lead complex, high-visibility initiatives from concept through execution, managing stakeholders, vendors, and participant experience.
What We’re Looking For
10+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, organization development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, human capital consulting, or a related field.
Proven ability to design and deliver leadership experiences that improve leader capability, accelerate readiness, and support business priorities in a complex, global organization.
Strong internal or external consulting judgment, with experience diagnosing business and organizational needs, advising senior leaders, and turning strategy into practical talent or organization effectiveness solutions.
Track record of collaborating and influencing within an organization across businesses, regions and functions to create buy-in, ensure alignment and deliver impactful talent solutions.
Experience improving leadership team effectiveness, role clarity, operating rhythms, culture, engagement, change management, or workforce transformation outcomes.
Track record of building experiential, memorable, and practical development solutions that move beyond traditional training and help leaders solve real business challenges.
Executive presence and facilitation skills sufficient 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-informed solutioning, 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.
Familiarity with assessment tools, coaching frameworks, leadership models, talent reviews, succession planning, organization design, workforce planning, or AI-enabled learning tools.
About Morningstar
At Morningstar, we make space for you to keep learning, stretching, and becoming. To build new skills, explore new paths, and go deeper in your craft.
Your ideas rise on merit. Your judgment matters. And you have the foundation to thrive in all parts of your life.
Unlock what's already in you.
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
$161,050.00-246,933.33Inclusive 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.
001_MstarInc Morningstar Inc. Legal EntitySkills Required
- 10+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, organization development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, human capital consulting, or a related field
- Experience designing and delivering leadership development experiences in a complex, global organization
- Experience diagnosing organizational needs, advising senior leaders, and developing talent or organizational effectiveness solutions
- Experience collaborating across businesses, regions, and functions to gain buy-in and deliver talent solutions
- Experience improving leadership team effectiveness, role clarity, operating rhythms, culture, engagement, change management, or workforce transformation outcomes
- Experience building experiential and practical development solutions tied to real business challenges
- Executive presence and senior-level facilitation skills
- Ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with business and People & Culture stakeholders
- Ability to use feedback, talent insights, engagement data, and program metrics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact
- Clear, concise communication skills tailored to senior audiences
- Experience in financial services, fintech, investment research, asset management, data, technology, or consulting
- Familiarity with assessment tools, coaching frameworks, leadership models, talent reviews, succession planning, organization design, workforce planning, or AI-enabled learning tools
What the Team is Saying
Morningstar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies include flexible PTO and a paid sabbatical every four years, often highlighted as a standout perk. Feedback suggests this structure supports strong work–life balance and meaningful breaks.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies advertise a global minimum of 16 weeks for primary caregivers, up to 8 weeks for secondary caregivers, and at least six weeks of paid caregiving leave. These offerings signal above-average support for family and caregiving needs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature employer 401(k) contributions/matching, with some postings citing a 75% match on up to 7% of pay. Feedback suggests these offerings are a strong pillar of the package.
Morningstar Insights
What We Do
We are a global investment research and financial data company with 40-plus offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our products and services are used daily by individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and institutional investors. We provide data, research, and analysis across managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. The financial system can have real barriers—hidden information, friction that can slow decisions, and forces that can limit transparency and access. We work to remove them, bringing independent research, connected data, and investor-first tools to a system that needs more clarity. The people doing this work span research, technology, design, product, sales, and functional areas. We build many of our products in-house, so the work can connect directly to the tools investors use to make real financial decisions.
Why Work With Us
Morningstar’s missing is to empower investor success. We can only do that if our people feel empowered. That means finding people who think independently, bring a wide range of backgrounds with analytical rigor and genuine intellectual curiosity to the work.
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Across most of our offices globally, employees work four days a week in the office and one day from home. We recognize that life doesn't always fit a fixed schedule and offer programs that can help provided increased workplace flexibility.
