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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. - Course
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. - Course
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.