Panelist

Ross Forman

Ross Forman is a Managing Director in BDO’s Workplace & Operations Strategy practice. He has over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, organization assessment, workforce and workplace strategy, M&A integration and back -office cost improvement. Ross has extensive knowledge advising leadership, clients, and staff by identifying strategies to solve complex issues including:

• Managing and planning staffing requirements across industries, including key performance reports/metrics, etc.
• Creating complex workplace strategies that address a hybrid RTO, generational differences and functional support requirements
• Drafting the workplace of the future guidelines to enable an agile work culture including Sustainability and Wellness
• Using design & technology to create a vision for the workplace that positively impacts workforce productivity and engagement
• Developing, and forecasting talent acquisition with value -added metrics and reports in a manner that aligns the organization’s strategic short and long term business objectives
• Completing strategic business case for insourcing versus outsourcing key business functions

Ross has advised numerous organization leadership, business units, and key partners on how to create an engaging and productive workplace experience with a focus on attracting/retaining talent, improved engagement and employee experience.

Ross has led numerous end -to -end large -scale strategic planning engagements across industries, with focused subject matter expertise in the retail,manufacturing healthcare, professional services and technology industries.