Tackle your mission-critical priorities with trusted insights, tailored guidance and execution tools. Guided by a former CAE, our flexible partnership evolves with your changing needs to help you make faster, smarter decisions and deliver measurable impact.
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Gartner for Chief Audit Executives
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Hear from Gartner experts on how clients from across the C-suite are taking action and leading in times of change.
How we support your priorities
Assess your current state
Develop your strategic plan
Execute and drive change
Stay ahead of the curve
What’s included in a Gartner for CAEs membership?
CAE Executive Partners
Executive Partners are former CAEs with decades of experience who provide personalized, strategic guidance. They help you accelerate impact, lead transformation and navigate complex challenges with:
A safe sounding board for ideas and challenges
Pressure tests for your priorities and plans to challenge your thinking
Facilitated strategy meetings with your leadership team
Support for board-level communications and executive alignment
Peer connections to benchmark and learn from other CAEs
Expert guidance to help you tackle your most critical priorities
Gartner for Chief Audit Executives helps you prioritize time and resources on what matters most. Our insights, guidance, and tools focus on Mission-Critical Priorities (MCPs)—the imperatives that drive results for your business and stakeholders.
We focus on the highest impact priorities for CAEs—from unlocking value with AI to optimizing costs and leading change—decisions that drive impact. With step-by-step guidance and clear Journey Steps, Gartner helps you move confidently from strategy to execution.
Actionable Insights for your everyday organizational needs
Gartner for CAEs also equips you to tackle Perennial Priorities by connecting enterprise strategy to the functional decisions that drive performance.
Backed by over 510,000 client discussions and 23,000 vendor conversations and 200,000 AI queries, Gartner gives you access to more C level strategies, tools, and best practices than any other source.
- AskGartner AI for instant, contextual answers and summaries
- Case studies showcasing peer-tested strategies and measurable outcomes
- Magic Quadrants and Market Guides for smarter tech decisions
- Enterprise leadership insights to enhance C-suite collaboration
Decision Tools
Assess your audit team's current performance and benchmark against peers to uncover opportunities, then accelerate execution with workflow tools like Audit Score — giving you guided plans, vendor support and proven frameworks and templates to move faster.
Must-Attend Events
Get action-oriented insights and unparalleled perspectives on your most important challenges. Attend expert-led discussions on road-tested tools and insights.
Gartner Enterprise Risk, Audit & Compliance Conference
Audit & Risk Webinars
Live and on-demand virtual events featuring Gartner experts and peer best practices.
Peer Connections
Get access to a community of industry leaders who have the right experience to help. Follow peer-led discussions and polls on best practices, trending topics and technology ratings and reviews to support your mission-critical priorities.
How CAEs benefit:
Direct cost savings
Our experienced technology experts can help you make more informed legal technology decisions and get more value from your investments.
Decision speed
On average, organizations take eight to nine months to make decisions. We reduce that decision time frame by 30% to 60% with our trusted insights.
Budget justification
Secure funding for key initiatives and staff using our budget, staffing, org structure and activities benchmarks tailored for your organization.
Risk mitigation
Shape your emerging issues plans with real-time visibility into evolving approaches, lessons learned and norming data from multinational companies across industries.
Execution speed
Use our customizable tools, frameworks and templates to speed execution of your key initiatives, enabling you to deliver faster results.
Extension of your staff
Subject matter experts across Gartner are available on demand to support your changing priorities.
How Gartner clients have achieved success
- Audit Department Transformation
- Modernizing Audit & Risk
Driving Audit Transformation and Operational Excellence
“We would be almost in panic mode working late, cutting scope just to get the audits done by the end of the year. And this past year, we managed to get to the end of the year with much lower anxiety. And I'm looking forward to the next few months where I think we are right on target to complete the plan without a year-end panic.”
Learn how Denise Dombay, Chief Audit Executive at FINRA, partnered with Gartner to transform the audit department by implementing a strategic plan focused on staff development, data-driven practices, and risk-based approaches.
Building Modern Audit & Risk Capabilities
“I always like to think of Gartner as another employee, because of all of the research, all the knowledge and the current happenings. Those elements of research are invaluable because it would take us hours to get the amount of detail and probably not be as thorough and probably not be as good.”
Discover how Fidelity Security Life Insurance Company partnered with Gartner to modernize its audit and risk functions using Ignition Guides, maturity frameworks, and expert advisory support to build best‑practice capabilities and elevate risk management across the enterprise.
Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.