Organizational Development Consultant

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture,
you belong here.

Lockton is seeking an Organizational Development Consultant to join the U.S. Organizational Development team. This role will serve as an internal consultant to business leaders, helping diagnose organizational needs, support change management, improve business processes, strengthen leadership capability, build organizational readiness, and create scalable solutions that improve business performance.
This position is designed for someone who can move between strategy and execution, translate business needs into practical solutions, and help leaders and teams adopt new ways of working. This is not a traditional training delivery role. It is a hands‑on internal consulting role focused on organizational readiness, change adoption, leader enablement, team effectiveness, organization design, and practical business impact.

Minneapolis, Dallas, Boston, Charlotte, Seattle, Salt Lake City

In this role, you will partner across the business to identify needs, shape solutions, and support implementation across markets and business areas.

• Serve as an internal consultant to business leaders.
• Diagnose organizational needs, clarify business problems, assess root causes, and recommend practical solutions that improve organizational readiness, leader capability, team performance, and business outcomes.
• Lead or support change management initiatives, including change readiness, stakeholder analysis, communication planning, leader alignment, adoption planning, resistance management, and reinforcement.
• Apply change management, continuous improvement, process improvement, workflow redesign, Lean, Six Sigma, Prosci, ADKAR, or similar methodologies to improve business outcomes and adoption.
• Design and facilitate working sessions, leadership discussions, team effectiveness sessions, change workshops, and stakeholder alignment meetings.
• Support organizational readiness, organizational effectiveness, and organization design work, including role clarity, decision rights, organizational structure, operating rhythm, leader alignment, team performance, process improvement, and operating model improvement.
  Create scalable tools, templates, playbooks, leader guides, communications, and resources that support enterprise-wide adoption and consistent execution.
• Partner across organizational effectiveness, leadership development, strategic consulting, talent management, coaching, assessments, learning strategy, and enterprise learning solutions.
• Use data, feedback, metrics, and business insight to evaluate impact, identify trends, and continuously improve solutions.

• 10+ years of experience in change management, organization design, internal consulting, business transformation, leadership development, talent development, or a related field.
• Strong consulting skills, including needs assessment, problem diagnosis, solution design, stakeholder management, and implementation support.
• Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead group discussions, manage competing viewpoints, and help teams reach clear decisions.
• Ability to translate strategy into practical plans, tools, communications, leader actions, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to work in ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and…