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Brad Warga

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Brad Warga is a partner in Heidrick’ San Francisco office and co-head of the global Human Resource Officers Practice. He specializes in senior-level leadership advisory assignments within private equity, venture capital, family offices, financial services, and global technology companies, placing HR officers.

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Experience

Brad advises boards, CEOs, and investors on acquiring world-class HR and customer success talent.

Prior to joining Heidrick, Brad was a senior vice president of customer success for four years and later was vice president of sales for Gild, an early-stage SaaS recruitment platform that was sold to Citadel LLC.

Previously, Brad was a vice president of corporate recruiting at Salesforce for two years, responsible for scaling recruiting capacity from 300 to more than 1,000 hires per quarter and transforming the recruiting department into a data-driven social enterprise using the latest social and mobile technologies.

Before that, Brad was a corporate vice president of talent and employee engagement at Caesars Entertainment based in Las Vegas. He has also held recruiting leadership roles for Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, and Sapient Corporation.

Education

Rollins College, Bachelor of Science Degree in Business

Philanthropy and Service

Brad is on the advisory board of Legion, a workforce engagement platform that improves labor efficiency and employee retention by accurately forecasting business coverage needs and automatically matching them with employee skills, preferences, and productivity.

He is on the advisory board of BrightHire, a lightweight, intelligent interview platform transforming how many of the world’s talent-forward companies raise the quality of hires with a more effective, equitable hiring process.

Brad is also a board member of the Surf Conservation Partnership, a groundbreaking collaboration between Conservation International and Save The Waves Coalition that is mobilizing surfing communities to expand the conservation of critically important marine and coastal ecosystems.

Thought Leadership

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Chief energy officers: A new model for HR leadership

Brad Warga

At a time of unrelenting demand and transformation, CHROs are no longer just talent stewards; they’re being called upon to serve as “chief energy officers,” managing not just productivity and performance but the internal fuel that drives both.
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Key insights: Heidrick CPO Summit

Jennifer Wilson | Brad Warga | Christie Smith, PhD | Dr. Leah Houde | Ryan Bulkoski

Grounded in insights from the Heidrick CPO Summit, this article shows how the best leaders create clarity amid enduring uncertainty. The CPO’s influence is rising as AI transforms work, and success now depends on fair AI adoption, strong succession pipelines, and performance-focused hybrid work cultures.
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Creating next-generation CHROs

Rachel Farley | Brad Warga

The role of the CHRO is changing fast. We offer five lessons from some of the world’s most digitally enabled human resources leaders.
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Chief people officers in focus: What new HR leaders need to know

Emma Burrows | Sharon Sands | Brad Warga | Jennifer Wilson

We spoke to CPOs around the world to find out how the HR leadership role is changing and understand the impact of trends including AI, the evolving expectations of younger generations, sustainability, competition for talent, and workforce well-being.
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