Managing Director, Leadership Consulting

Description

Managing Director

About The Job

The Miles Group (TMG) is a global consulting firm that partners with leading organizations – including those in the Fortune 500 – to build high-performing leaders and companies. We deliver world-class talent strategies – coaching, succession planning, board effectiveness, leadership offsites, and executive assessment – that align leadership performance with business outcomes. With deep expertise across industries including CPGs, Industrial, Technology, Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Aerospace. TMG is trusted by CEOs and boards to deliver results that matter.

As a senior team member, the Managing Director plays a vital role in shaping the firm’s future through client impact, business growth, and talent development. You will advise the most senior leaders in global organizations while helping grow the next generation at TMG. As a senior member of the team, you will play an important role in developing our culture by embodying our values – Drive Impact, Be World Class, Engage Positively, and Learn It All – in everything you do.

The Value You Bring to TMG

Business Development and Revenue

• Build and maintain long-term, trusted client relationships.
• Expand existing client accounts by identifying new needs and innovative solutions.
• Generate new business through strategic networking, referrals, and thought leadership.
• Develop and deliver compelling proposals to prospective clients and boards.
• Publish thought leadership that reinforces TMG’s market position and intellectual capital.
• Lead the scoping of client engagements, aligning deliverables with business impact.
• Foster client retention through consistent high-quality delivery and relationship management.

Client Impact and Delivery Excellence

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards and CPOs on leadership and succession.
• Translate client challenges into actionable insights and high-impact strategies.
• Write and review client-facing deliverables, ensuring clarity, rigor, relevance, and impact.
• Provide strategic oversight across complex client engagements, ensuring alignment with client needs, project scope, and TMG’s standards of excellence.
• Ensure rigorous scope, delivery, and quality assurance of multifaceted client projects, maintaining senior-level ownership of outcomes.
• Contribute to and scale proprietary tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Talent Development and Leadership

• Develop and mentor the next generation of TMG, particularly Directors.
• Delegate work that balances project needs with individual development goals.
• Provide consistent feedback, career counseling, and coaching to team members.
• Role-model TMG’s values and culture of excellence, inclusion, and intellectual rigor.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MBA, PhD) or equivalent executive-level experience in leadership advisory or coaching.
• At least 10 years of experience working closely with C-suite executives, with a demonstrated ability to influence decision-making at the highest levels.
• Demonstrated success in growing client relationships and generating new business through referrals, proposals, or thought leadership.
• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex issues into actionable insights and influence senior stakeholders through credibility and trust.
• Recognized expert in at least two of the following areas: executive coaching, succession planning, talent assessment, or board effectiveness, with exposure to others preferred.
• Effective communicator with the ability to lead executive conversations, facilitate high-stakes meetings, and deliver compelling written and verbal content.
• Experience leading and developing diverse, high-performing teams with a track record of mentoring others and fostering collaboration.
• Consistently produces high-quality, client-ready content with limited oversight – tailored to executive audiences and aligned to business impact.
• Brings entrepreneurial energy, strong ethical grounding, a “learn-it-all” mindset, and the resilience to thrive in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Why TMG

You will work alongside some of the best minds in leadership advisory, with access to global CEOs and boards. You will contribute to a mission-driven, collaborative team culture defined by our values.

Compensation

TMG offers a competitive base salary, discretionary bonus, and benefits package. A reasonable estimate of the base salary for this position is $325,000 - $400,000, with the potential for additional performance-based earnings. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws. Salary is one component of TMG’s total rewards package, which includes a discretionary performance bonus, 401K, generous paid time off, benefits, and wellness program.

TMG provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, TMG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

TMG does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals, or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity, or third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes, or candidates submitted to TMG or any employee or owner of TMG without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission with be considered TMG’s property and not subject to any fees or charges. For existing agreements, a role must be approved and open to external search; otherwise, unsolicited and unapproved submittals and referrals will be considered TMG's property and free of fees.

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