Rod has experienced most sides of expatriation, repatriation and immigration.

As a Canadian born Chartered Accountant with a Political Economy academic background and prior corporate public relations experience, and a gained international tax strategy specialty, he helped design and implement executive compensation and tax balancing systems for expatriated employees of such companies as Imperial Oil, Bell Canada, etc. before expatriating several times personally, relocating to Amsterdam, Geneva, and Tampa.

In Canada, Rod has lived in Vancouver and Montreal, and is now based in Toronto, living within walking distance of his French sailboat and quintessentially Canadian canoe, in the most multicultural precinct of the city, where he is a Director of the Toronto Harbourfront Community Association.

He has acted as an advisor to a Premier of Ontario and to the Chair of the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce. Practicing more generally as a corporate strategist he sojourned on multi-sectored business in the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Mexico, Africa, Gulf Arabia, India, Hong Kong and South Korea.

After being credentialed as an intercultural trainer and coach, he became a Senior Consultant with a global intercultural consultancy based in New York City, preparing employees to relocate abroad from Canada or to repatriate or immigrate to Canada from abroad, as well as improving multicultural teamwork, resolving intercultural conflicts, and assisting organizations to reach beyond limited diversity program objectives to develop programs which pervasively produce intercultural competencies, setting the stage for international and global operating success.

He is a volunteer mentor of The Mentoring Partnership, formed to assist immigrating professionals, participates in the University of Toronto’s program for assessing immigrating medical professionals, and the activities of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. In addition to parenting four children, of which two were adopted, he was a foster parent to a recent Canadian immigrant through her teen-age years and beyond.