How Gartner Works With HR Leaders

Elevate your HR strategy with Gartner for HR Leaders. Gain invaluable insight, expert guidance and practical tools, all designed to help align your HR processes with corporate objectives, drive impactful business initiatives and foster effective partnerships across your organization. 

How we support your priorities

Transform HR Through AI

Reinvent HR for the AI era by building an “Always on” transformation capability to guide the evolution of work.

Shape work for the human-machine era

Redesign people strategies and workflows to integrate AI into work while meeting evolving enterprise needs.

Mobilize leaders for growth amid uncertainty

Prepare leaders and managers to navigate change and drive growth as AI reshapes work and strategy.

Strengthen culture to power performance

Evolve culture to align employees and sustain performance amid AI-driven change.

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What’s included in a Gartner for HR Leaders membership

Expert guidance to help you tackle your most critical priorities

Gartner for HR Leaders helps you focus 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 senior HR leaders—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 HR also equips you to tackle Perennial Priorities by connecting enterprise strategy to the functional decisions that drive performance.

Backed by over 500,000 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

Get benchmarks, assessments and guides to drive stronger performance.

Must-attend conferences

Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™ is the must-attend gathering for CHROs looking for exclusive insights, inspiring keynotes, technology exploration, networking opportunities and more. CHROs can now elevate their HR Symposium/Xpo experience with expanded capacity for 2026 CHRO sessions. 

Gartner for CHROs also includes exclusive HR Symposium/Xpo experiences.

Gartner HR Symposium/Xpo™

Gartner Peer Community™

Gain access to a community of industry leaders with 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 you benefit

Peer benchmarks and research

Discover insightful research and peer benchmark data to inform KPIs and gain leadership buy-in.

Best practices and decision support

Explore profiles of tested approaches to solving business challenges that can enable smarter, faster decisions.

Webinars and online learning

Keep up on emerging topics and competitive trends with live and on-demand research webinars that are SHRM and HRCI accredited.

Key functional and employee diagnostics

See customized, actionable views of functional performance metrics and employee diagnostics.

Tools and templates

Get step-by-step guidance to execute on key initiatives in easy-to-use formats designed to help busy HR leaders save time.

Advisor and analyst inquiry

Receive unlimited, on-demand access to our team of research advisors for personalized guidance on your critical initiatives and decisions.

How Gartner clients have achieved success

Client

Patagonia
Retail
1,000+ employees
Theresita Richard
Chief People and Culture Officer

  • Established credibility as a New To Role CHRO by leveraging a Gartner Executive Partnership to identify the tools and resources that helped generate a quick impact 
  • Successfully created a three-year roadmap with alignment from senior leadership and stakeholders

  • Defined a new operating model for the function of people, culture and justice

Client

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United
Food & Beverage
10,000+ employees
Gianetta Jones
Sr. Vice President and Chief People Officer

  • Successfully developed a unified HR vision

  • Improved cross-functional alignment and identified opportunities to use AI to automate routine tasks

  • Accelerated decision-making and saved time in enhancing HR's ability to drive business value

Client

H&E Rentals
Industrial
3,000+ employees
Jamie Allen
Chief Human Resources Officer

  • Outlined HR's indespensable position in H&E's aggressive growth strategy to the C-suite

  • Established the HR function as a key, trusted partner to the C-suite

  • Was named one of the best HR leaders in the H&E history by the C-suite

Client

EY
Professional Services
300,000+ employees
Dan Black
Global Leader, Talent Strategy & Organizational Effectiveness

  • Successfully defined a fully structured, meaningful talent strategy using Gartner research and tools 

  • Elevated HR’s voice in C-suite conversations

  • Secured buy-in from the C-suite and board by leveraging Gartner data to identify how decisions would affect the business

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.