Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The AVP Learning and Leadership Development plays an important role in designing, delivering, and continuously improving leadership development experiences that support leaders across all levels of the organization.

Leveraging expertise in leadership development, adult learning, facilitation, and learning experience product design, this individual will collaborate closely with leadership development team members and subject matter experts to create impactful learning experiences that strengthen leader effectiveness and support organizational priorities.

The successful candidate will demonstrate curiosity and adaptability in leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools and automation, to enhance learning experiences, improve team effectiveness, and support continuous innovation in leadership development.

A key differentiator for this role is the ability to facilitate highly interactive leadership development and create environments where leaders can learn, practice, reflect, and apply new skills to real business and people challenges.

Responsibilities:

Leadership Development & Facilitation

• Design and facilitate leadership development for new, experienced, and senior leaders.

• Lead workshops, cohorts, and immersive experiences that build practical leadership capability.

• Create engaging environments for discussion, reflection, practice, and peer learning.

• Strengthen leader self-awareness, coaching, decision-making, empowerment, and team effectiveness.

• Help leaders apply learning directly in the flow of work.

Learning Experience Product Design

• Apply adult learning and leadership best practices to design impactful experiences.

• Build learner-centered products using instructor-led, virtual, self-directed, social, and experiential approaches.

• Create facilitator guides, participant materials, activities, assessments, job aids, and reinforcement tools.

• Design solutions that drive behavior change, capability building, and practical application.

• Use AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to enhance design, engagement, content development, and knowledge transfer.

Product Execution & Continuous Improvement

• Support delivery and continuous improvement of leadership development products and initiatives.

• Plan, deliver, and evaluate workshops, learning events, and development experiences.

• Pilot AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve learner experience, process efficiency, and program impact.

• Use agile practices to experiment, iterate, and improve.

• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining a high-quality learner experience.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Partner with the leadership development team, subject matter experts, and key stakeholders to execute learning experiences.

• Contribute ideas and insights that strengthen program quality and learner impact.

• Build strong relationships that enable teamwork and seamless delivery.

• Share emerging practices, tools, and innovations that improve the leadership development portfolio.

• Translate leadership development strategy into meaningful learner experiences and resources.

Measurement & Insights

• Measure effectiveness using feedback, learning metrics, and stakeholder insights.

• Improve engagement, skill adoption, and business impact through evaluation and insights.

• Use data and technology-enabled insights to inform continuous improvement.

• Stay current on leadership development, facilitation, AI, and workplace learning trends.

What Are We Looking For?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• 10–15 years of progressive experience in learning, facilitation, operations, enablement, or related functions.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience in a related field.

• Expertise in Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Talent Development, Organizational Development, or related fields.

• Advanced facilitation experience across virtual, hybrid, and in-person leadership programs.

• Strong learning and instructional design grounded in adult learning and behavior change.

• Experience designing and facilitating programs for leaders at multiple levels.

• Experience partnering cross-functionally to design and deliver learning experiences.

• Knowledge of learning evaluation and program effectiveness methods.

• Ability to use AI, automation, and emerging tools to improve learning and efficiency.

• Strong organization, communication, and project coordination skills.

Core Competencies:

• Passionate about leadership development and helping others grow.

• An engaging facilitator who connects with leaders at all levels.

• Skilled at designing immersive experiences that drive behavior change.

• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable partnering across teams.

• Curious about AI, automation, and emerging approaches to learning.

• Able to navigate ambiguity, manage priorities, and contribute to high-impact initiatives.

Pay Range:

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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