Rose Ford is a strategic HR professional with a passion for creating environments in which individuals, teams, and organizations can thrive. Over her career, she has led high-performing teams across a range of sectors, including infrastructure and engineering, tourism marketing, financial services and insurance, higher education, ICT, food manufacturing, and health. She has worked in global contexts, spanning countries such as New Zealand, the UK, Australia, Asia, and Canada.

Rose has experience in strategic HR, change management, leading growth, Board governance, building high-performance culture, remuneration, and reward, talent acquisition and management, employee relations, organization development, leadership development, digital systems, and coaching. Her primary focus is on helping organizations maximize employee potential and improve the employee experience.

Rose studied at Massey University and has held senior HR positions at Rabobank, Opus International, Tourism New Zealand, AXA New Zealand, Telecom New Zealand, Massey University, University of London, and Addaction.