Swagatam Basu is a Senior Director, Research in Gartner's HR Practice. He covers topics such as leader and manager effectiveness, learning & development and recruiting. His core focus is on manager development and has been involved in this space sine 2017. He specializes in leading research initiatives that include extensive quantitative analysis, structured and unstructured data mining and predictive modelling. He and his team have won the Gartner's annual award for content excellence in the quantitative analytics and data science categories twice- in 2022 for CEO Talent Champions and in 2019 for Talent IQ.