Northern Trust

Change Consultant and Senior Trainer

Posted on: 12 Mar 2026

Chicago, IL

Job Description

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

As a Change Consultant and Senior Trainer, you will define, develop, and deliver learning and change solutions to internal Wealth Management partners as part of the Change Enablement and Execution Team. You bring strong expertise in learning strategy, instructional design, video storytelling, and creative learning applications, along with the ability to deliver engaging live training, outreach, and direct Q&A sessions. 

Beyond training delivery, you bring a structured change and project management mindset, enabling you to plan, execute, and measure change initiatives that drive meaningful adoption and sustained behavior change. You understand that successful learning is not just delivered, it is adopted, embedded, and measured. 

Training expertise in Salesforce s beneficial. Experience in the financial services industry and familiarity with business functions such as account opening, money movement, document sharing, CRM systems, trusts, or investments is also an advantage. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and continuously evolving Agile environment. 

Additionally, you bring: 

Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence all levels of the organization, including executive leadership 

Strong instructional design and/or organization development capabilities, with flexibility to tailor solutions to diverse audiences and business needs 

Demonstrated ability to manage learning and change initiatives as projects, including planning, sequencing, dependency management, and risk mitigation 

Technical proficiency in building learning deliverables using tools such as Articulate (Rise and Storyline), Captivate, Toonimo, Microsoft Office 365 Tools, Canva and/or Adobe Premiere Pro 

A proactive, results-oriented approach with the ability to independently drive open items to completion 

Proven skill in coaching and motivating users through change, addressing resistance, and reinforcing new ways of working 

Working knowledge of change management methodologies (e.g., stakeholder analysis, readiness assessment, reinforcement planning) and Agile delivery concepts such as MVPs and product roadmaps 

Strong ability to analyze adoption, engagement, and effectiveness metrics, translating insights into continuous improvement actions 

Solid understanding of financial services processes across platforms and systems 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

As a partner on the Change Management team, you will be an integral member of agile, cross-functional teams working to transform how our business operates and serves clients. We nourish a diverse and inclusive culture and welcome you to help grow our community. 

As a Change Consultant and Senior Trainer, you will: 

Partner with management, performance consultants, product owners, and subject matter experts to understand desired business outcomes and translate them into measurable learning and change objectives 

Lead the planning and execution of training and change initiatives, applying project management discipline to ensure timely, coordinated delivery across stakeholders 

Apply change management methodologies to assess readiness, identify risks, and support sustained adoption of new processes, tools, and behaviors 

Design, develop, and deliver blended learning solutions, including instructor-led training, e-learning, performance support, and reinforcement activities 

Facilitate live learning sessions, office hours, and targeted outreach to support pilots, releases, and post deployment adoption 

Define and track adoption and effectiveness metrics (e.g., participation, proficiency, usage, feedback), using insights to continuously improve learning and change strategies 

Maintain an inventory of training and organization development assets, managing schedules and priorities aligned to business roadmaps 

Represent the Change Management and Training function in cross-functional meetings, providing clear status updates, risks, and recommendations 

Support process implementation and optimization by leveraging data-driven insights and feedback loops 

Desired Skills:

Articulate (Rise, Storyline)  

Adobe Captivate  

Camtasia 

Toonimo  

Microsoft Office 365 tools (Teams, Word, Excel, Co-Pilot, Clipchamp) 

Canva  

Adobe Premiere Pro 

Working Model: Hybrid 

We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office 3 days per week and working from home 2 days per week. We are open to location for this position, if there is a Northern Trust office within a reasonable commute to satisfy our in-office requirement. 

Northern Trust

Chicago, IL

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and over 16,500 employees globally. We serve the ... Read more

Mission: Every day, we challenge ourselves to leverage our strength and stability in innovative new ways. We strive to forge deeper connections and help our clients achieve bigger goals. And by working more globally than ever before, we continually push new technologies and ideas forward.

Because for us, Achieve Greater goes far beyond a promise to our clients. It’s an ongoing expectation we have for ourselves.

 

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