Learning & Development Consultant

Role overview

Emerson Human Capital Consulting is looking for a Learning & Development Consultant who can shape high-quality learning experiences, support large-scale change initiatives, and partner closely with senior stakeholders. The role centers on solving business problems through learning strategy, instructional design, and modern development methods.

What you'll do

• Carry out detailed analyses of learning needs and capability gaps across roles, audiences, and the organization.
• Create engaging, well-structured learning solutions that are instructionally strong and designed to drive real behavior change.
• Use current learning technologies, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to build and deliver effective solutions.
• Work with senior leaders to align on goals, priorities, desired outcomes, and delivery expectations.
• Manage projects end to end, keeping work on schedule, within budget, and aligned to quality standards.
• Support major transformation programs and organizational change efforts, including work in large enterprise environments.
• Partner with clients to reskill and upskill their teams so they can adapt to new ways of working.

Experience and qualifications

• A degree from a four-year college is required.
• Typically 5 to 10 years of external experience in learning and development consulting, training, or instructional design.
• Strong command of instructional design principles and proven best practices.
• Experience building blended learning programs that combine instructor-led, digital, social, experiential, and performance support methods.
• Excellent business and technical writing, editing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong capabilities in project management and data analysis.
• Comfort working with people at all levels, especially senior leaders in large organizations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and client teams.
• Skill in using data, learner feedback, and business metrics to shape solutions and evaluate results.
• Ease working with technical teams and advising clients on practical uses of AI, automation, analytics, and digital learning ecosystems.

Preferred background

• Professional certifications such as PMP, CLP, CPLP, or CHRP in project management, change management, learning, or human resources are an advantage.
• Experience in vision alignment and learning needs analysis.
• Experience with persona design and competency design.
• Experience designing programs, curricula, and blended learning experiences.
• Prior work on ERP or similar technology implementations such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, or Palantir.
• Familiarity with eLearning tools such as Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate.
• Experience with dashboards, analytics, and data visualization.
• Exposure to AI-assisted learning design, prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, or low-code/no-code development.
• Big 4 consulting experience is beneficial.
• Willingness to travel is preferred.

Compensation

The role offers an hourly rate of $65 to $75.

About Emerson Human Capital Consulting

Emerson Human Capital Consulting Inc. focuses on change management and helping organizations translate people potential into measurable business performance. The company supports clients with transformation, operational improvement, strategy and technology adoption, and performance enablement.

What the company does

• Transformation: helping organizations navigate fast, high-impact change and build lasting change capability.
• Change management: improving implementation success and sustaining results.
• Organization design: creating structures and roles that support business strategy.
• Learning and development: building the skills, tools, culture, and environment needed for strong performance.
• Communication: making sure employees receive the right information at the right time.
• Technology change: improving adoption and human performance during technology rollouts.

Why consider Emerson

• The company was the first U.S. organization with a large team dedicated entirely to behavior change.
• It is recognized as a thought leader in human performance and has published book series through the Association for Talent Development.
• Its clients include some of the world’s most successful and recognizable companies.

Eligibility and additional notes

Candidates who are currently employed by an Emerson Human Capital Consulting client may not be eligible for consideration. Applicants in the United States must have unrestricted work authorization and must not require visa sponsorship. The hiring process may use AI tools to assist with application review, resume analysis, response assessment, and identification of potential inconsistencies, but final decisions are made by people.