Executive Development Manager

Job Title: Executive Development Manager

Location: North Chicago, Illinois 60064

Duration: 12 Months (Possible Extension)

Top 3 – 5 Skills Needed for each role:

• Program & Project Leadership - The role requires coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, maintaining timelines, managing multiple workstreams, and orchestrating end-to-end program execution. This spans planning, design, communications, logistics, vendors, and post-program reporting.
• Executive Stakeholder Management - A significant portion of the work involves partnering with senior leaders, sponsors, communications teams, vendors, and external experts, while gathering feedback and driving alignment on program direction, messaging, and outcomes.
• Learning & Experience Design - The responsibilities include developing program concepts, learning objectives, session designs, themes, agendas, panel discussions, and participant experiences. The ability to translate business needs into engaging leadership experiences is central to the role.
• Strategic Communication - The role owns a broad portfolio of participant, speaker, and stakeholder communications, including invitations, pre-work, logistics, reminders, facilitator materials, briefing documents, and post-event follow-up communications. Strong written communication and messaging skills are essential.
• Data-Driven Insight & Continuous Improvement - Beyond execution, the role requires analyzing participant feedback, synthesizing themes, developing executive summaries, preparing leadership briefings, and translating program outcomes into recommendations and future improvements.

Leadership Development Program & Event Manager

Leadership Forum Development Experience (LFDE) and Leadership Forum ExchangeROLE SUMMARY

This role leads the planning, design, coordination, communications, stakeholder engagement, and execution of the Leadership Forum Development Experience and Leadership Forum Exchange. The individual ensures a high-quality participant and executive experience while translating feedback and learning outcomes into insights that inform program improvement and future direction.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership Forum Development Experience (LFDE)

• Program Planning & Coordination Coordinate across Executive Development, with our vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain cohort plans, timelines, design documentation, participant rosters, waitlists, and participant changes across multiple cohorts.
• Coordinate agenda updates, speaker details, program materials, and logistics.
• Participant Communications & Experience Develop and distribute invitations, pre-work, agendas, logistics information, bio book requests, confirmations, reminders, and post-event follow-up.
• Manage program content distributed through the Executive Development mailbox.
• Support the creation and distribution of bio books, participant agendas, pre-work guides, and take-home slide decks.
• Speaker & Facilitator Coordination Coordinate internal executive speakers and external facilitators.
• Manage speaker materials, agendas, titles, biographies, and program content updates.
• Feedback, Reporting & Insights Administer post-program surveys and feedback collection.
• Aggregate and synthesize participant feedback, identifying themes and recommendations for program enhancements.
• Analyze learning outcomes and develop executive summaries, reports, and leadership briefings.
• Prepare briefings on LFDE outcomes, Scaling Impact findings, and implications for HR strategy
• Event Strategy & Design Support the design and development of the Exchange concept, format, and overall experience.
• Create event blueprints, design documents, agendas, and executive recommendations.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to refine themes, learning objectives, session design, and leadership messaging.
• External Speakers & Panels Research and evaluate external speakers; manage outreach, engagement conversations, and coordination with speaker teams and external experts.
• Develop briefing materials and preparation documents.
• Identify panel topics and discussion themes, recommend panelists, coordinate leader outreach and invitations, and create moderator guidance, discussion questions, biographies, and preparation materials.
• Executive Stakeholder Management Coordinate with senior leaders, key sponsors, and communications partners.
• Gather feedback and align stakeholders on event direction and messaging.
• Communications, Marketing & Operations Develop save-the-date communications, invitations, reminders, post-event emails, and survey communications.
• Coordinate messaging with executive communications teams.
• Serve as liaison with meeting planners and event vendors; lead logistics planning discussions.
• Develop event checklists and operational readiness plans, coordinating room setup, meeting flow, attendee communications, and event execution.

Core Capabilities

Capability

What Success Requires

Strategic Program Management

Manage interconnected workstreams, timelines, stakeholders, vendors, content, and execution.

Executive Stakeholder Management

Build alignment with senior leaders, sponsors, communications partners, and external experts.

Learning & Experience Design

Translate objectives into cohesive agendas, sessions, panels, simulations, and participant experiences.

Executive Communications

Develop clear, polished communications and briefing materials for participants, speakers, and leaders.

Data-Driven Insight

Synthesize feedback and outcomes into themes, recommendations, reports, and future program direction.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Experience managing complex leadership development programs, executive events, or comparable enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leaders, executive speakers, facilitators, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong written communication, presentation, organization, and attention to detail.
• Experience creating program plans, agendas, briefing materials, participant communications, and executive-ready reports.
• Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback and translate insights into practical recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver a high-quality experience in a dynamic environment.

Measures of Success

• Seamless, well-coordinated delivery of LFDE cohorts and Leadership Forum Exchange events.
• Clear stakeholder alignment and timely, executive-ready communications and materials.
• A high-quality participant, speaker, facilitator, and sponsor experience.
• Actionable insights that strengthen future program design and direction.
• Consistent operational readiness across program planning, communications, logistics, and execution.

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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $90.00/hr - $100.00/hr.