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# Learning & Development Consultant at Emerson Human Capital Consulting

- **Company:** Emerson Human Capital Consulting
- **Location:** All
- **Compensation:** $65–$75/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/emersonhc/02262f53-eea1-44c0-ab44-8b2f3d6dcf69

## Job description

Are you passionate about Learning and Development? Have you been successful at leading learning and development projects? Are you known for your excellence in creating top notch learning solutions? If you said “yes” to all of our questions, you might like to apply to our Learning and Development Consultant positions.

- Conducting thorough needs and gap analyses in skills, audience, organization, etc.
- Developing instructionally sound, creative, and high quality-learning solutions with high impact results that leave a lasting effect
- Leveraging modern learning technologies, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to design, develop, and implement behavior change solutions.
- Managing senior leader stakeholders and aligning on vision, outcomes, and expectations
- Managing projects: delivering on time, on budget, and with unparalleled quality standards.
- Implementing organizational changes that come with large-scale transformations at Fortune 100 companies.
- Working with clients to re-tool and re-skill their people, so they support the new way of doing business.

Being a Learning and Development Consultant requires:

- A college degree from a 4-year college
- Typically, 5-10 years external learning and development consulting / training or instructional design experience
- Advanced level experience in instructional design principles and best practices
- Experience designing and delivering blended learning solutions that combine instructor-led, digital, social, experiential, and performance support approaches
- Superior business/technical writing and editing skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills’
- Strong project management and data analytics skills
- Significant experience working with people at all levels of an organization, particularly senior leaders at large organizations
- Passion for collaborating and supporting internal and client team members
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data, learner insights, and business metrics to inform solution design and measure impact
- Comfort working alongside technical teams and advising clients on practical applications of AI, automation, analytics, and digital learning ecosystems

It’s beneficial if you have professional certification (PMP, CLP, CPLP, CHRP) related to project management, change management, learning, or human resource management – as well as experience in the following:

- Vision alignment and learning needs analysis
- Persona design
- Competency design
- Program and curriculum design
- Blended learning experience design and development
- ERP or similar technology implementation training experience (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Palantir)
- eLearning authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate
- Data analytics and dashboard development
- AI-enabled learning solution design and prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, low-code/no-code development, or AI-assisted solution development
- Big 4 Consulting experience
- Willingness to travel

## About Emerson Human Capital Consulting

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emerson Human Capital Consulting is a boutique consulting firm that helps businesses and government organizations achieve the full benefit of their transformation initiatives through change management and learning & development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Alameda, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2001
- **Founders**: Tricia Emerson (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Business Consulting and Services (Change Management, Learning & Development)
- **Target customers**: Fortune 500 companies, US government agencies, and diverse organizations spanning industries like retail, food, and consumer goods.
- **Mission/purpose**: To help organizations capture the benefit of their change initiatives by focusing on human behavior, not just technology or process.

## Products & Services
Emerson offers a single core service with two primary specializations:
- **Change Management Consulting**: Strategy, planning, and execution support for large-scale organizational transformation (typically projects with $1M+ impact delivered within 180 days).
- **Custom Learning & Development**: Designing, developing, and delivering training programs to help people internalize new ways of working, adopt new technology, or learn new skills.
- **Proprietary Methodologies & Books**: The company has published *The Change Book*, *The Learning & Development Book*, and *The Technology Change Book* to codify its behavior-science-based approach.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$4.2M** (2025/2026 estimate from LinkedIn company data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: WBENC-certified (Women's Business Enterprise). Clients include the US government and a diverse mix of Fortune 500 companies (specific names not publicly listed).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Completed over **1,000 projects** across industries nationwide.
    - Yearly headcount growth of +3.2% (reaching 18 employees).
    - Job postings have grown +100% quarterly and yearly.
    - Recent hiring indicates continued demand for both Change Management and L&D roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneering Focus**: The first consulting firm to build a large team of full-time professionals specializing *only* in behavior change, not as a side practice of a larger IT or accounting firm.
- **Behavior Science Foundation**: Methodologies are grounded in actual behavior science and real-world application, not generic consulting frameworks.
- **Proven Track Record**: Spanning 25+ years with a focus on high-impact, time-sensitive projects ($1M+ impact, 180-day delivery).
- **Thought Leadership**: A published book series (*The Change Book*, *The Learning & Development Book*, *The Technology Change Book*) that captures proprietary insights.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding its national footprint while maintaining a high-touch, quality-driven service model (not scaling into a "body shop").
- Growing both its direct-hire (Emerson Human Capital) and contractor (Emerson ReadyStaff) talent pools to meet client demand.
- Deepening specialization in high-stakes, fast-moving transformation initiatives for both commercial and government clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Quality, Authenticity, Creativity, Courage, Stewardship, and Humor. The team is described as collaborative, ego-free, authentic, and willing to "roll up their sleeves."
- **Remote/Hybrid**: **Fully remote-friendly.** The company explicitly states you "definitely do not need to live near our HQ in the Bay Area." Resources are located all over the US.
- **Work Structure**: A mix of full-time employees (EHC) and contractors (ReadyStaff) who often team up on projects. The door goes both ways for conversion.
- **Recruiting Process**: Rigorous but transparent 5-step process: resume review, quick check interview, writing sample, in-depth skills interview, and a sample deliverable/presentation based on a brief case study.
- **Team Size**: Typical project teams range from 2 (consultant + lead) to about 12 people, offering hands-on collaboration.
- **Opportunities**: Currently hiring for a **Change Management Manager (contract)** and a **Learning & Development Consultant**. Certifications in project management, change management, and learning are valued but not required.

## Sources
1. [emersonhc.com - Careers](https://www.emersonhc.com/careers)
2. [LinkedIn - Emerson Human Capital Consulting](https://linkedin.com/company/emerson-human-capital-consulting)
3. [emersonhc.com - About Us](https://www.emersonhc.com/about-us)
4. [jobs.lever.co - Emerson Openings](https://jobs.lever.co/emersonhc)
5. [emersonhc.com - Recruiting Process FAQ](https://emersonhc.com/helpie_faq/what-is-your-recruiting-process-how-long-is-your-recruiting-process)

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