LPL Onboarding Transformation

Enterprise financial services | Onboarding redesign & performance improvement

Led the redesign and restructuring of a large-scale onboarding training program to accelerate time-to-proficiency, improve certification outcomes, and strengthen early performance. The work focused on aligning learning experiences with real job expectations through applied practice, earlier assessment, and stronger coaching support.

Overall goals

  • Reduce time-to-proficiency while improving early performance outcomes

  • Strengthen coaching expectations and introduce earlier performance intervention

  • Revamp training content by expanding hands-on, scenario-based instructor-led learning

  • Introduce assessments earlier and throughout the program with structured checkpoints to reduce failure rates

Approach

  • Restructured onboarding to emphasize applied learning, complex case studies, and real-world scenarios

  • Revamped training content by increasing hands-on, scenario-based instructor-led experiences

  • Introduced earlier and more frequent assessments with structured checkpoints throughout the program

  • Strengthened coaching expectations by aligning leaders to earlier performance intervention points

  • Integrated standardized service workflows into training to ensure consistent customer experience and help learners confidently navigate any topic or client scenario

Impact

  • Reduced total onboarding program length: 24 weeks → 16 week

  • Accelerated time-to-proficiency: 8 months → 5 months

  • SIE pass rate improved: 30% → 82%

  • New hire service quality score (SQI) increased: 8.3 → 8.5

  • Improved consistency in coaching and early performance support

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