Ben Garthwaite, CEO, Fors Marsh

Ben Garthwaite serves as chief executive officer of Fors Marsh and guides the company’s business growth and diversification. Ben cultivates a purpose-driven culture focused on using business as a force for good, with the belief that businesses must share responsibility for strengthening the systems in which we operate. He is committed to evolving company policies and practices so that each of Fors Marsh’s key stakeholder groups—community, client, employee, and planet—are positively impacted. Under his leadership, Fors Marsh has earned B Corporation Certification, has become a Just® employer, and received Top Workplace USA, the Northern Virginia Family Service CARE, and Inc. 5000 Hall of Fame awards, to name a few. Throughout his tenure, Fors Marsh has grown from 20 employees to more than 400 employees. A remote-first company, Fors Marsh is registered to do business in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state, and Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Fors Marsh, he spent a decade in the technology industry supporting and leading programs serving military personnel and their families.

Episode Transcript

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Ben garthway A Fords Marsh.

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We frame our approach in three phases. We listen, we create,
and we adapt. So listening is about the evidence. We're
a research first company, so research isn't all that we do,
but it's foundational to how we approach every challenge right
and nothing can be done without this step. That guide's
everything we do from there. And the second thing we
do is we create and this is about moving people,

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that action and that creation. That can take a lot
of forms as well. It could be policy change, it
could be a process, could be a training, could be technology,
could be a communication or a campaign. But the term
create here is actually very important. And then the last
one is a data and this is about learning, right,
we got to go back to the evidence. We're going
to say what work, what didn't work, how can we improve?
And so the majority of our work is actually with

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the federal government, but we have a growing footprint with states,
with nonprofits and commercial firms as well.

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