David B. Wartman, BA, MS, CMC
Managing Partner
Telephone: 403.269.7767
E-mail: david.wartman@lesp.ca
David has spent 25 years as a senior corporate executive and management consultant working in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta. Over his career both pre and post-executive, David has worked across a diversity of industries ranging from agri-business to mining, manufacturing and transportation to financial services and oil and gas. Since moving full time into consulting, David has been providing human resource consulting and executive search services across a variety of industry sectors in Saskatchewan and Alberta since 2000.
In both his corporate and consulting roles David has provided active support to corporate clients related to organizational strategy and to their human resource challenges including executive search, compensation, and organization effectiveness. During his corporate career, David was the Compensation and Benefits leader for Manulife Financial, the lead human resource executive for McMaster University and the senior Human Resource and Corporate Services leader for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. (now Nexen Inc.), where his oversight covered the company's chemical manufacturing operations.
David is a Saskatchewan native, and a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a BA in Political Science and from the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University with a Master of Science in Collective Bargaining and Organizational Behavior. He is also a Certified Management Consultant.
David also has also had an extensive professional and volunteer life that has given him a broad professional network across Canada and into the USA which enables him to better serve the requirements of his clients both in consulting and search activities.
