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.