Leadership Development Fellow (CO or NC)

FMI’s Leadership and Organizational Development practice is seeking a dedicated, driven individual with a passion for leadership. In this exciting, fast-paced and highly developmental fellowship, you will help generate cutting edge content to improve our clients’ organizations, teams and individual leaders. We are seeking individuals pursuing an advanced degree who are detail-oriented and enjoy thinking deeply about what it means to be a great leader.

This paid, part-time internship requires a commitment of 25-30 hours per week and will be based in our Cherry Creek office in Denver, Colorado or in our Raleigh, NC headquarters. Remote candidates will be considered.

*Please note that only candidates who submit a cover letter expressing their interest and qualifications will be considered.

As a Leadership Development Fellow, you will:

• Gain expertise in working with cutting edge high performing senior leadership teams
• Increase your self-awareness around your leadership strengths and areas for improvement
• Dive deep into a fast-paced industry to identify future trends and their implications for leaders
• Learn valuable instructional design skills and utilize them to develop new content (presentations, facilitator scripts, activities) to assist consultants on training and consulting engagements
• Gain valuable exposure to a fast-paced consulting firm and insight into what it takes to be successful in the world of consulting

Responsibilities

• Researching the latest leadership topics and trends
• Integrating relevant research into improving existing training and consulting content
• Creating presentations and facilitator scripts to be used in consulting engagements
• Helping develop new content in a wide variety of leadership and organizational development areas
• Analyzing organization-specific data to gain a deep understanding of the inner workings of large organizations and assist in the development of action plans for them

Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Business, I/O Psychology or related field
• Strong passion for leadership development and leadership trends
• Proficiency in conducting online research
• High attention to detail
• Ability to interact effectively with internal and external clients
• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Ability to thrive with minimal direction and supervision in an ambiguous work environment
• Superior organizational, time management and project management skills, and the ability to exercise sound independent judgment
• Demonstrated maturity, integrity and the ability to perform in an entrepreneurial environment, both individually and as a team player
• Fluency in English (Writing, Speaking, Listening)