Gartner Expert

Martin Adams

Sr Principal, Advisory

Martin Adams is a Senior Executive Advisor in Gartner's HR Advisory practice and serves as a thought partner to HR leaders and their global teams. In his role, he enables leaders to critically assess the best approach to their challenges, guiding them to best practice solutions, insights, and tools that help to address their critical business and people priorities.

Mr. Adams's expertise is in Change Management and Organizational Design (OD). His attention is on practices that help increase the success of change and OD interventions, reducing change fatigue, as well as how to effectively empower both HR Partners and line managers in their roles leading change efforts.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Adams worked in executive search hiring senior HR leaders across the European region and helping to establish and grow his previous firm's regional presence. Throughout his career he has also supported critical technology transformation projects, helping to drive behavior adoption across new systems, as well as helping organizations assess and remove the barriers to transformation across their organizations.

Professional background

Frazer Jones, Associate Director, 5 years

Areas of coverage
  • Organization Design and Change Management

Education

MSc Human Resource and Organizational Management, University of Nottingham

BSc (Hons) Social Sciences, University of London

CIPD level 7 qualification

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Executing organizational transformation initiatives more effectively

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Identifying and reducing change fatigue

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Equipping people managers to lead change at the team-level

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Conducting an organization redesign process and optimising your design to your goals

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Enhancing organizational effectiveness through identifying and removing work friction