Ross Alander

Practitioner Mediator

Human Resources Consultant & Mediator · Practitioner Mediator

Alander Consulting provides comprehensive Human Resources services to small/medium size businesses and nonprofits. We offer service as your “Human Resource Director On Call” or on a project, retainer, or hourly basis. I believe employees are real people and not human capital. Ross is a retired Senior Lecturer in Management Studies in the College of Business at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USF S-M)(Retired) and was voted Outstanding Professor USF S-M, fall 2009 and spring 2012. Ross has a bachelor’s degree in social science and economics and a master’s degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University and recently attended the Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law. In addition Ross is a member of the Labor Panel of the American Arbitration Association and the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators. Ross has an extensive and comprehensive background in Human Resources and Organizational Development in health care, in the auto industry, professional employer organizations, with service companies, with professional groups, the public sector, and not for profits. Ross has held a number of management/leadership positions at the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors, including being a factory (foreman) supervisor. Moving into the area of health care, he served as Personnel Administrative Manager of E.W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing and as Vice President of Human Resources at Lansing General Hospital (Michigan), then for 10 years as the Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development for Tampa General Hospital, where he led a team of 200 members. Ross assisted in the coordination of the consolidation (from the Human Resources aspect) of four separate Tampa hospital merger/consolidations: St. Joseph’s/Humana Women’s, University Community Hospital/Centurion, Charter Tampa/Pasco, and St. Joseph’s/South Florida’s Baptist/Bay Care. In addition Ross has worked with employee leasing companies, including a start-up leasing company. Most recently, Ross facilitated the Human Resource factor in the start up of Hillsborough Kids, Inc. (HKI), a community-based child welfare organization. Ross works with or has worked with a number of organizations (nonprofits, for profits and public) and is committed to making every organization that he works with an Employer of Choice.