Ross is a conference speaker, high performance recruitment coach and recruitment industry commentator.

Across more than three and a half decades Ross has been a recruiter, leader of recruiters, trainer, speaker, coach, blogger, and industry volunteer and advocate.

Over his fifteen years as an agency recruiter and leader Ross worked in London, Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne.

For the past two decades Ross has provided a range of coaching, training and leadership development programs to the recruitment industry in Australia and New Zealand.

As a Fellow of the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association (RCSA), Ross currently serves as a member of the RCSA’s Professional Practise Council whose role is to lead and support the RCSA’s development of professional practice across the Australian and New Zealand recruitment industries.

Since 2007 Ross has written more than 900 weekly blogs articulating his forthright opinion on recruitment, the recruitment industry, the labour market, and leadership.

Ross was awarded the RCSA CEO’s Outstanding Contribution Award for 2022.

Ross and his family live on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Beside his family, Ross’s other interests include cricket, the Sydney Swans, Arsenal Football Club, The Smith Family child education initiatives, breast cancer fundraising, standup paddle boarding, golf, open water swimming, music, politics, reading, horse racing, philosophy, current affairs and travel.