Kabeh Vaziri is a Managing Vice President, Analyst. Her research focuses on building the human-AI workforce, and how AI is reshaping IT organizations, workforce strategy, and leadership. Her research empowers global enterprises to shift from execution-heavy IT models to human-AI operating models by reallocating capacity, redesigning work, and strengthening judgment-centric capabilities for greater business impact.
Kabeh has led global research teams and built firm-wide research and product capabilities that shape how Gartner serves CIOs and executive leaders. As Chief of Research, she launched Gartner’s Executive FastStartTM program globally, accelerating the transition of senior leaders across more than 20 executive roles and guiding them through inflection points driven by technology, organizational change, and evolving leadership expectations.
Earlier in her career, Kabeh led IT Leaders research at CEB and served as Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer at a healthcare IT startup, where she operationalized product strategy and built new organizational capabilities in a fast-scaling environment.
In addition to her role at Gartner, Kabeh serves on the faculty at Cornell University, where she teaches AI value creation to Master of Engineering students. This work gives her direct visibility into the evolution of next-generation technical talent alongside enterprise transformation.
Kabeh holds a PhD in systems engineering from Cornell University and a master’s degree in mathematical modeling and economics in public decision making from the Johns Hopkins University.
WiserTogether, Senior Director of Product Operations, 1 years
CEB, now Gartner, Director of IT Research, 6 years
Cornell University, Post Doctoral Associate, 1 years
Technology and Digital Talent
Ph.D., Transportation Systems Engineering With a Minor in Operations Research, Cornell University
M.S., Mathematical Modeling and Economics in Public Decision Making, The Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology.
AI Impact on Workforce