Zahid Kisa serves as a Director Analyst within Gartner's Strategic Portfolio Management practice, helping executive leaders make better investment decisions and deliver strategic business outcomes. Drawing on extensive research and direct engagement with practitioners, he advises organizations on strategic portfolio management, portfolio governance, demand intake and prioritization, resource allocation, PMO modernization, and value realization. Zahid helps leaders balance competing business priorities, improve portfolio visibility, optimize investment decisions, and establish operating models that increase organizational agility and execution effectiveness. His research and advisory work also covers agile project management, project-to-product transformation, benefits realization, and value management practices.
Before joining Gartner, Zahid was an academic researcher who studied the impact of educational policies and interventions on organizational performance and outcomes. His research focused on evaluating program effectiveness, identifying drivers of success, and generating evidence-based insights to support decision making and continuous improvement.
Build and Evolve the PPM Function and Team
Support Delivery Methodologies and Organizational Change
Optimize Portfolio Value, Risk and Cost Management
Prioritize Portfolio Demand
Ph.D., Learning Sciences and Policy and Quantitative Research Methodology, University of Pittsburgh
Portfolio governance & risk mgt., demand intake & prioritization, PMO establishment & modernization, agile project management, project-to-product transformation, benefits realization & value mg