Boyden is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial leadership consultant to join our growing Leadership Consulting practice. This is an opportunity to partner with executives, leadership teams, Boards, and organizations to help them navigate critical leadership, talent, and organizational challenges while shaping the leaders and teams that drive business success.
As a senior member of the team, you will lead impactful client engagements across leadership development, executive and team effectiveness, succession planning, talent management, leadership assessment, organizational effectiveness, and culture transformation. You will work closely with clients to understand their unique context and challenges, design tailored solutions, facilitate meaningful conversations, and translate insight into action and measurable results.
This role requires both strong consulting expertise and a commercial mindset. Beyond delivering exceptional client work, you will play an important role in growing the practice by building trusted executive relationships, identifying new opportunities, contributing to thought leadership, and helping expand Boyden's impact in the market. For someone who is passionate about leadership, organizational effectiveness, client advisory work, and business development, this role offers the opportunity to influence organizations, grow a practice, and make a meaningful difference for clients every day.
Core Responsibilities
Lead the Design and Delivery of Leadership Development Programs
Shape the leaders who will define the future of organizations. Design and deliver transformative leadership experiences that help executives and emerging leaders expand their impact, navigate complexity, and drive sustainable results.
- Design and deliver customized leadership development programs and processes for executives, senior leaders and emerging leaders.
- Apply strong knowledge of adult learning, behaviour change and leadership development to create engaging and meaningful experiences and results.
- Evaluate leadership development needs and recommend approaches that strengthen both individual and organizational leadership capability.
Design & Facilitate Leadership Assessments
Help leaders see themselves more clearly and organizations make better talent decisions. Lead comprehensive assessment processes that uncover strengths, identify growth opportunities, and provide actionable insights that accelerate leadership effectiveness.
- Design and lead leadership assessment processes for executives and senior leaders and within a broader enterprise scope, integrating multiple sources of information, including 360 feedback, psychometric assessments, interviews and organizational context, to develop clear and meaningful leadership insights and reporting.
Conduct Psychometric Assessments
Use leading psychometric assessments to deepen self-awareness, support development and coaching conversations, and inform critical talent and succession decisions.
- Interpret and debrief approved psychometric assessments, including tools such as Hogan and SuccessFinder.
- Use psychometric data to support leadership development, coaching, succession planning and selection decisions.
Design and Facilitate Team Development
Enable leadership teams to perform at their highest level. Partner with senior teams to strengthen trust, alignment, collaboration, and collective effectiveness, helping them deliver stronger results together than they could individually.
- Design and facilitate team development and team coaching engagements.
- Assess team dynamics and team performance using a variety of tools.
Design and Lead Succession & Talent Management Processes
Help organizations build the leadership bench strength needed for long-term success. Design and facilitate talent and succession processes that identify future leaders, assess potential, and create sustainable approaches to developing critical organizational capability.
- Design and lead succession planning and talent management processes at the executive, leadership team and enterprise levels.
- Develop approaches for assessing leadership potential, capability and development needs.
- Help clients build repeatable and sustainable succession and talent management processes that can be embedded internally.
Growing the Leadership Consulting Practice
Play an active role in shaping the future of Boyden's Leadership Consulting practice. Build trusted executive relationships, develop new opportunities, bring innovative thinking to clients, and help expand the impact, reputation, and capabilities of the practice across Canada and globally.
- Contribute actively to the growth and development of Boyden’s Leadership Consulting practice.
- Build trusted relationships with senior executives, Boards and people leaders that lead to ongoing advisory relationships.
- Identify opportunities to expand Leadership Consulting services within existing client relationships.
- Develop new client relationships through networks, referrals, and thought leadership.
- Collaborate with Boyden Search Partners to identify opportunities where Leadership Consulting can enhance broader client relationships.
- Lead and contribute to proposals, presentations and client pitches.
- Bring market insights, new ideas and emerging practices into the continued development of Boyden’s Leadership Consulting offerings.
- Contribute to building the methodologies, tools, intellectual property and capabilities of the practice.
Qualities & Attributes
We are looking for someone who combines deep expertise with the mindset and approach needed to help build and grow the Leadership Consulting practice.
Entrepreneurial
Sees opportunities, takes initiative and is motivated by building, improving and growing the practice rather than simply delivering assigned work.
Client- and Service-Minded
Cares deeply about the client experience, is highly responsive and takes pride in delivering thoughtful, high-quality work.
Proactive & Accountable
Anticipates what is needed, takes ownership and follows through. Comfortable operating with autonomy and moving work forward without waiting for direction.
Learning-Oriented & Curious
Actively seeks new ideas, research and perspectives and continually looks for ways to strengthen their own capability and the work of the practice.
Collaborative & Generous
Works as part of a team, shares expertise openly and contributes to the success of colleagues and the broader practice.
Adaptable & Comfortable with Ambiguity
Thrives in a growing practice where priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge and not every process is already defined.
Commercially Minded
Understands that excellent consulting includes recognizing client needs, building relationships and identifying opportunities to create additional value.
High Standards & Attention to Quality
Takes pride in the quality of their work and brings sound judgement, professionalism and care to every client interaction and deliverable.
Trusted
Handles sensitive executive, leadership and organizational information with maturity, integrity and appropriate confidentiality.
Growth-Minded
Energized by helping build something - contributing ideas, strengthening offerings, improving how we work and expanding the impact of Leadership Consulting.
Qualifications & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in leadership consulting, leadership development, talent management, organizational development, executive assessment, or a related advisory field.
- Proven track record of generating and growing business, including developing executive relationships, identifying opportunities, leading proposals and client pitches, and converting opportunities into long-term engagements. A genuine passion for business development, relationship building, and practice growth is essential.
- Significant experience partnering with senior executives, leadership teams, Boards, and HR leaders on complex leadership, talent, and organizational challenges.
- Exceptional facilitation, communication, and public speaking skills – ability to facilitate engaging workshops and executive level conversations / meetings.
- Significant experience designing and leading leadership development programs and initiatives for executives, senior leaders, and emerging leaders.
- Strong conducting leadership assessments and integrating multiple data sources, such as executive interviews, 360 feedback, psychometric assessments, talent data, and organizational context into meaningful leadership insights.
- Experience interpreting and debriefing psychometric assessment tools in support of leadership development, executive coaching, succession planning, and selection decisions.
- Strong experience designing and facilitating team effectiveness, team development, and team coaching engagements with senior leadership teams.
- Demonstrated experience designing and leading succession planning, talent review, and talent management processes at the executive, leadership team, or enterprise level.
- Experience supporting organizations through organizational development, organizational effectiveness, culture, change, and/or organization design initiatives.
- Experience leading client engagements from initial scoping and solution design through facilitation, reporting, recommendations, and implementation support.
