Ken Adams leads the total rewards team at Foresters Financial and has accountability for the strategic direction and operations or the company's compensation, pension, benefits, wellbeing and recognition programs. He is currently leading a holistic review of Foresters total rewards programs to ensure they support the wellbeing or employees and their families and recently implemented a modernized retirement and savings plan and benefits plan that is centred around flexibility and employee wellbeing.

Over his career, Adams has been involved in various aspects of human resources, including HR strategy development, M&A and program harmonization, incentive design, pension and benefits design, succession planning, organization redesign and change management activities.

Prior to joining Foresters, he spent five years at Loblaw Companies Limited and Shoppers Drug Mart, where he led the compensation function before serving as vice-president of human resources at the PC Financial division. He also spent 10 years in HR consulting, with a focus on executive compensation, at Towers Watson.

Adams graduated from Queen's University in Kingston with a bachelor of commerce (honours) degree. He has also been a speaker at various total rewards conferences and a quest lecturer at Ryerson University.