Gartner Analyst

Lynda Sinatra

Sr Director Analyst

As a SRD Analyst in Gartner's Business & Technology Insights Practice, I partner with HR leaders to provide insights and advisory support to help them solve their most pressing challenges. Conversation topics include how to support organizations navigating disruption and change, how to build HR functions to enable sustainable growth, and how to lead teams to deliver results and business impact through operational excellence and trusted partnerships.

Previous experience

My HR experience has always lived close to the business, supporting rapidly changing priorities, absorbing organizational pivots, and helping leaders make sound people decisions even when the ground is shifting.

As a CHRO, I transformed the legacy HR function of a $110M organization, boosting operational efficiency by 70% and reducing HR operating expense by $1.4M. I bring deep experience guiding technology‑driven, enterprise‑wide organizational change, including implementing platforms like Workday to streamline processes, strengthen analytics, and drive measurable outcomes. I've delivered $7M+ multi‑phase Workday implementations for organizations up to 41K employees, earning two Industry Innovation Awards from Workday for business impact and change leadership.

Throughout my management consulting career, I also led 20+ large‑scale change and culture programs across organizations from 3K–75K+ employees, designing for digital adoption, optimizing processes, and sustaining results through leader‑led change.

Most recently, I founded my independent consulting company Sirius People LLC to be a partner to organizations and executives looking for experienced HR leadership to help them move from strategy to implementation without losing either.

Professional background

Sirius People, LLC, Founder & Chief People Enabler, 1 years

Children's Institute, CHRO, 4 years

PwC, Director, Cloud & Digital Practice, 4 years

Accenture, Analyst to Senior Manager, HR Strategy & Transformation, 17 years

Areas of coverage
  • Leader and Manager Effectiveness for HR Professionals

  • HR Strategy and Management

  • Organization Design, Transformation and Change Management for HR Professionals

Education

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Master of Education

Boston University, Bachelor of Arts

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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1. Leading HR teams to deliver results and business impact through operational excellence and trusted partnerships 2. Implementing HCM platforms like Workday. 3. Navigating disruption and change