Lead Talent & Organizational Development Consultant

Job Summary

The Lead Talent and Organizational Development Consultant at Alliant Energy plays a critical role in driving talent enterprise growth, strengthening leadership capability, and aligning organizational design and culture with business strategy.

About the Role

This position is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and evaluating enterprise talent development programs, including performance management, to support employee growth, engagement, and retention.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, leads, and facilitates enterprise-wide training and development programs and tools tailored to organizational needs, with a strategic focus on building leadership capabilities and critical professional skills.
• Led organizational development strategies that leverage change management, organizational design, and culture initiatives ensuring alignment with strategic and tactical business objectives and the successful execution of organizational change and transformation.
• Accelerates leadership successor readiness by providing counsel on talent identification, skill gap identification, development planning, and establishing programs such as coaching and mentoring to support employee growth, career progression, and long-term development.
• Designs, implements, and leads performance management systems that cultivate a high-performance culture, providing employees with the support needed to successfully achieve team and organizational goals.
• Develops, implements, and leads strategies based on survey insights to foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing organizational culture aligned with company values.
• Maintains awareness of current trends across talent management to bring continuous improvement to practices which align to the employee experience model and leverage digital technology wherever practical.
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders to advance and strengthen organizational culture to drive employee engagement.
• Collaborates with HR business partners to enhance performance and develop future leaders, ensuring user-centric processes and programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology, or related field.
• Preferred 8+ years of Talent Management and/or Organizational Development expertise.
• Experience in developing and managing projects from start to finish with measurable results and operational impact.

Qualifications

• Excellent organizational skills and project management skills; exceptional attention to detail.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business operations, management practices, and principles, and employee engagement trends and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly establish rapport, buy-in, and trust of key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide variety of internal and external people, both in formal and informal circumstances, and where necessary to gain agreement and acceptance.
• Demonstrated competency in needs assessment, instructional design, facilitation, performance measurement and evaluation, and the use of adult learning principles.
• Proficient in the creation and delivery of presentations to convey information.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Skills

• Change Management Consulting
• Employee Engagement
• Organization Transformation
• Performance Management
• Project and Program Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Talent Management