Ross Maynard
About Ross Maynard
Ross Maynard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and Managing Director of Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd. He has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement.
Ross believes in inspiring, challenging and supporting change. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.
He has extensive practical experience of providing process improvement support, specialising in management information and performance measurement; mapping and analysing process performance; facilitating in-house improvement teams; and delivering related training and development activities.
What makes Ross tick?
Ross is passionate about inspiring, challenging and supporting change through helping organisations with their processes and people.CPD Courses
3 Business Excellence Models for Your Organisation
Business performance management involves measuring organisational performance and identifying areas for improvement. This bite introduces the concept of business excellence and explores three models that offer a flexible approach to BPM.
5 Non-financial KPIs for Your Business
As accountants, we focus heavily on financial data, but did you know you can gain a lot of insight into your business by looking at non-financial indicators? This bite considers five key non-financial KPIs, from employee to operational measures.
7 Sustainable Investment Strategies
Did you know businesses are increasingly considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investments? In this bite, discover seven investment strategies you could use to boost your organisation's sustainable credentials.
Agile Accounting and Business Planning
This course explores the fundamental principles of the Agile Manifesto and demonstrates how they can streamline your processes, without compromising quality or increasing risk. You will learn how to implement a framework that applies agile methodology to all your accounting practices, including month-end reporting, business planning, forecasting and decision making.
Beyond Dashboards: Telling a Story with Data
Not everyone can spot trends and concerns in data the way accountants can. To deliver a key message you often need to reframe data as a story, to engage people's emotions and steer them towards a desired outcome. This course will help you to build a story using creative techniques and keep your audience engaged.
Boosting Value for Your Clients
Do you think about the way you do things from a client point of view or from your own? Using the 'Voice of the Customer' way of thinking you can improve how you do things to provide a better service, eliminate issues and keep clients happy.
Building a Spreadsheet Forecasting Model
This course explains how to build and operate spreadsheets for forecasting, planning and business models. It's a practical guide, which takes a step-by-step approach to building, utilising and maintaining models.
Business Performance Management
Business Performance Management (BPM) is a powerful tool but making it work for your organisation can be difficult. This course explains the essentials of BPM, and shows how data analysis, effective structures and problem solving contribute to improving performance.
Cost Management: Engaging with Uncertainty
Discover how agile cost management strategies can help you navigate uncertainty, uncover hidden opportunities, and build lasting value across your organisation.
Creating a World-Class Finance Function
What is a world-class finance function, and why should you want to create one in your workplace? This course will help you to implement best practice in finance and accounting to optimise quality and efficiency, and to provide the best possible service to your stakeholders.
Financial Modelling: Business Simulation
Updated for 2024. Did you know Excel can be used to model potential business situations? In this course, you can learn the basics of business simulation in Excel, along with how to create financial models to aid decision making.
How to Reduce Waste and Cut Costs in Your Business
Organisations are always trying to cut costs. Lean process improvement is a useful solution that focuses on wastes, which are tasks that don't add value to the customer. Discover how to reduce costs by eliminating nine common wastes.
Key Performance Indicators
What makes good KPIs and how do you create them? This course will take you through the foundations and support KPIs need to ensure they are reliable and measurable.
KPIs for Practices
Accountancy is a profession based on expertise and knowledge, so developing key performance indicators (KPIs) for a practice requires a particular approach. Whatever the size of your practice, this course will help you develop the right KPIs to improve performance.
KPIs for SMEs
Updated for 2024/25. There are many different KPIs that can be used to monitor performance so it's important to identify the ones that are most relevant to you. This course looks at useful KPIs for SMEs in different areas and how to use them to improve your business.
Lean Process Improvement
Lean centres on encouraging skilled and motivated people across the organisation to work together to improve the efficiency of processes. Understand the concepts at the heart of the lean philosophy, and consider its application within your organisation.
Making Monthly Reports Worth Reading
World class finance functions produce monthly reports that managers actually read. This course enables you to delight your audience by setting clear objectives, creating compelling visuals and creating monthly reports that drive business improvement.
Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
Consumers, employees and major investors are increasingly choosing climate friendly brands. This course explains how a rigorous approach to carbon performance management will enable you to measure your organisation's carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint.
Reporting to Stakeholders
Does your current reporting take a sufficiently holistic approach? This course will make sure that you stay on top of key developments and trends to help you meet the changing expectations of both internal and external stakeholders.
Sustainable Finance
Sustainable finance is a hot topic, and it's making CEOs and directors turn to their accountants. This course looks at ways you can help businesses make financial decisions that prioritise sustainability and develop strategies and practices that tackle sustainability issues.