Beau Higgins

Veteran Hiring Expert

Beau Higgins is a passionate and inspirational leader, an expert in Veteran and Military Spouse recruiting and program development, and entrepreneur who prides himself on being a servant leader. During his career, Beau has led global teams at all levels of organizations in areas to include intelligence, operations, program management, and talent acquisition. Beau began his career of service as a United States Marine and served for 25 years as an intelligence officer. This included deployments to Somalia, Bosnia, 3 tours to Iraq, and 3 tours to Afghanistan. He had the privilege to command 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. Following his military career, Beau spent over 6 years at Amazon where he led Amazon’s efforts to build scalable veteran programs, focused on hiring, developing and retaining the best and the brightest military talent available for positions within Amazon and establishing Amazon as the best in class for Veteran hiring. In April of 2023 Beau moved into a new role as the Vice President of Business Development for Oplign, an Artificial Intelligence platform that helps match Veterans with open jobs in addition to serving as a consultant with various companies focused on growing their Veteran hiring programs.