diff --git a/examples/asr/conf/asr_adapters/asr_adaptation.yaml b/examples/asr/conf/asr_adapters/asr_adaptation.yaml
index fad6fa981a1a..34f2b4293438 100644
--- a/examples/asr/conf/asr_adapters/asr_adaptation.yaml
+++ b/examples/asr/conf/asr_adapters/asr_adaptation.yaml
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ exp_manager:
     name: null
     project: null
     entity: null
+    save_dir: null
 
   resume_if_exists: false
   resume_ignore_no_checkpoint: false
diff --git a/nemo/utils/exp_manager.py b/nemo/utils/exp_manager.py
index 011c29c8317c..cf653bb34c87 100644
--- a/nemo/utils/exp_manager.py
+++ b/nemo/utils/exp_manager.py
@@ -665,7 +665,12 @@ def configure_loggers(
             wandb_kwargs = {}
         if "name" not in wandb_kwargs and "project" not in wandb_kwargs:
             raise ValueError("name and project are required for wandb_logger")
-        wandb_logger = WandbLogger(save_dir=exp_dir, version=version, **wandb_kwargs)
+
+        # Update the wandb save_dir
+        if wandb_kwargs.get('save_dir', None) is None:
+            wandb_kwargs['save_dir'] = exp_dir
+        os.makedirs(wandb_kwargs['save_dir'], exist_ok=True)
+        wandb_logger = WandbLogger(version=version, **wandb_kwargs)
 
         logger_list.append(wandb_logger)
         logging.info("WandBLogger has been set up")