Alexander Bant is the chief of research for CFOs at Gartner, where his business insights are used by 45,000 leaders at a majority of the S&P Global 500. His research teams quantify and share what the top companies and their leaders do differently to maximize their people, processes and technology.Alex has interviewed more than 3,300 C-level executives and led strategy sessions at more than 250 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Salesforce, General Motors, The Walt Disney Company, Starbucks, Heineken, Deere & Company, Gilead Sciences, BMW, United Airlines, UPS, Philips, American Express, Verizon, Fidelity, McDonald’s, Allstate and L’Oreal. Alex’s data and findings have been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Reuters, The Economist, Businessweek, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, USA Today and more than 75 other media outlets.Alex holds a degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is an adjunct professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C.