Jarrad Roeder
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Jarrad Roeder

Partner

Expertise

Overview

Jarrad Roeder is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Philadelphia office and is the global lead for digital leadership. He works with senior executives and leadership teams to navigate the human dimensions of change across AI and digital transformation, leadership succession, culture, and strategic organizational design, all to accelerate human performance.

Experience

Jarrad partners with senior leaders to translate strategic ambition into accelerated performance by addressing the people, organizational, and cultural dimensions of transformation. He leads engagements that align talent priorities to business goals, future-proof organizational models, and evolve company cultures to thrive through disruption.

As a founding member of Heidrick & Struggles’ Digital and Innovation Center of Excellence, Jarrad focuses on integrating humans and technology. This work reinforces that AI outcomes depend less on tools than on leadership alignment, psychological safety, and organizational readiness.

Jarrad authored Heidrick & Struggles’ point of view on leveraging culture to accelerate GenAI enablement and is a leader within the firm’s internal efforts to transform the business with AI.

A core component of Jarrad’s work is supporting boards and senior executives on high-stakes leadership decisions. As an experienced assessor, he orchestrates rigorous, objective, and data-driven assessment approaches for highly sensitive succession processes.

In conjunction with his client work, Jarrad teaches executive-level programs on strategic planning, innovation, orchestrating ecosystems, digital dexterity, and change leadership, and has facilitated executive development programs at the University of Pennsylvania’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education.

Earlier in his career, he advised on strategy and transformation at Decision Strategies International (DSI), acquired by Heidrick & Struggles in 2016.

Education

Wharton School of Business, B.S. Degree in Economics

University of Pennsylvania, B.A. Degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

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