Introducing RSM’s 2025
Global Annual Review
2025 has been a year of transformation for RSM. It’s been a year of laying strong foundations for strategic change, positioning us to navigate and lead in a constantly changing landscape.
As we look to the future, we are focused on executing our 2030 Global Strategy. The progress we have made in 2025 has strengthened our foundations and positioned us for continued growth and relevance in a changing world. This year has been about laying the groundwork for change—subtle yet strategic moves that ensure we are not just adapting to change but shaping it.
Message from our Chairperson
“The strength of our connections was fundamental to our progress in 2025. It was a pivotal year for RSM as we continued to advance our 2030 Global Strategy, "Taking Charge of Change." This strategy is designed to build a highly interconnected global organisation that embraces change and grows at pace. By responding to significant shifts in the profession and marketplace, we have positioned RSM as a leader in the middle market, ensuring we remain agile and future-ready.”
Chairperson of the RSM International Board
Developing our global brand
“We continue to strengthen the RSM brand as a connected global platform, enabling a more consistent, high-quality experience across markets, sectors and services.”
Nina Arundel
Global Leader, Business Development and Marketing
In September, we proudly marked a decade since coming together under one global RSM brand. Over the past ten years, our unified brand has become one of our most valuable assets, driving actions and behaviours that enable us to work more seamlessly across borders, and fostering a powerful shared identity as a dynamic, forward-thinking global organisation.
As our most important global asset, maintaining a consistent, unified and forward-looking brand is fundamental to our collective growth and market confidence. During 2025, we strengthened our global brand platform, enhanced supporting infrastructure and invested in education and collaboration to ensure consistent execution across the Network. Find out more in the full report.
Building strong digital foundations
“Strong digital foundations enhance how we serve our people and our clients, supporting seamless collaboration and data-driven insight while maintaining resilient cyber security.”
Nicola McCoy
Chief Information and Security Officer
During 2025, we continued to strengthen the digital foundations that support consistent client service, secure collaboration and trusted insights across our global network. Through targeted investments in shared platforms, data, and infrastructure, we improved service delivery, developed seamless cross-border collaboration, and maintained resilience in an ever-evolving global environment. These outcomes were achieved through sustained investment in shared technology and security capabilities globally.
Alongside these technology developments, we continued to strengthen the security and resilience of our Network in response to an increasingly complex and evolving threat landscape.
Together, these investments have enhanced our ability to deliver consistent, secure and high-quality services to our clients, while supporting our Member Firms with scalable capabilities that drive sustainable growth and long-term resilience.
Quality at RSM
“Our steadfast commitment to excellence, integrity and objectivity is guided by RSM’s global strategy and focus on the middle market, ensuring we foster confidence and deliver quality solutions that empower our clients to thrive amid ongoing global change.”
Claire Blanton
Global Leader, Quality and Risk, RSM International
During 2025, we continued to refine our quality commitments to better serve our diverse client base. In alignment with our 2030 strategic vision, we have prioritised robust and relevant responses to the changing risk landscape for our Member Firms and their clients.
Rising regulatory expectations and a shifting geopolitical context increase the complexity of our global operations. The growth of private equity investment in our sector introduces new challenges for regulatory compliance and operational agility. This necessitates vigilant adaptation to evolving market dynamics.
Our dedication to compliance and ethical standards remains steadfast. The launch of Global Independence Assessment (GIA) streamlines service authorisation, strengthens independence compliance, and ensures ethical consistency across the Network. GIA supports reliable oversight, helping us maintain stakeholder confidence amid a heightened global regulatory environment.
We continue to deepen our focus on risk management. Serving a wide range of clients across multiple regulatory environments, we are enhancing our risk framework to remain coordinated and responsive to both traditional risks—such as regulation, independence, and quality—and emerging threats, including cyber security.
While embracing technological innovation, we continue to invest in our people. Updated RSM Orb and IFRS training programmes ensure our teams stay current with technical standards, supporting agility and consistency throughout the Network.
Translating purpose into action
“Confidence is built through action. Every day, across 120 countries, our people take meaningful steps to address the issues that matter most to their clients, colleagues and communities.”
Rebecca Richards
Global Leader, Strategy and Special Projects, RSM International
At RSM, we recognise that our role as a global organisation carries a responsibility to help drive positive change within the communities where we work and live.
When combined across our Network of 56,000 people, these actions create a powerful and lasting global impact, fulfilling our purpose of instilling confidence in a world of change.
Our approach is purposeful and strategic. We have defined priorities that guide how we operate. By aligning with leading global frameworks, strengthening ESG capabilities across our Network, and developing transparent reporting practices, we continue to embed responsibility into our culture and our client service.
This structured framework enables us to amplify the significant work taking place across our Member Firms while advancing together in a clear and consistent global direction.