Learning & Development Business Partner

Description & Requirements

• Proactively collaborate with firmwide leaders, senior leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand the firm’s vision, strategic priorities, leadership capability needs, team member experience goals, and evolving business challenges, and translate those insights into effective learning and development solutions.
• Serve as a strategic Talent Development partner to senior leaders, business groups, and cross-functional teams by providing guidance, thought partnership, and practical recommendations that support leadership growth, team effectiveness, and overall team member experience.
• Design, develop, and deliver learning experiences and workshops that support current and future business needs across the firm.
• Facilitate learning programs, leadership sessions, focus groups, team discussions, and development experiences with confidence, credibility, and strong command of adult learning principles.
• Partner with leadership to identify, prioritize, and support a holistic team member experience with emphasis in the areas of Forvis Mazars DNA, leadership effectiveness, client service, inclusion and belonging, wellness, accountability, coaching, and professional growth.
• Coordinate the planning, design, development, and delivery of flagship programs, firmwide programs, internal conferences, and other learning initiatives, working closely with service line, industry, functional, Talent Development, and Learning Experience Team partners.
• Lead or support needs analyses, focus groups, listening sessions, diagnostic efforts, Talent Review feedback reviews, and business needs assessments to identify trends, clarify performance objectives, and inform updates to learning strategies, training plans, and program design.
• Develop content, tools, facilitator resources, participant materials, discussion guides, learning assets, and practical development resources that support training initiatives, team development, leadership growth, and other business needs.
• Partner with internal subject matter experts, senior leaders, client service partners, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Inclusion and Belonging leaders, Learning Development, Leadership Development, Performance Development, IMPACT and alumni network leaders, and other firmwide stakeholders to create and deliver relevant learning experiences and prioritize content development based on emerging needs.