Over the past 18 years, Lionel Laroche has provided cross-cultural training, coaching and consulting services to over 75,000 people in 18
countries. Lionel specializes in helping professionals and organizations turn the challenges that cultural differences create initially in most
organizations into a source of creativity and innovation. Lionel Laroche is a very dynamic, entertaining and educational speaker/facilitator. He
has presented at over 250 conferences and venues all over the world. Furthermore, he has served a wide range of business, government,
academic, professional and non-profit organizations through his work.

Laroche is also a tireless author. He has published learned but practical articles examining the impact of cultural differences on business and
human resources. His publications have appeared in over 30 trade magazines published in eight countries. 

Lionel Laroche has written three books:

• Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions, which has sold over 4,000 copies (2002).
• Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Diverse Employees, which has sold over 6,500 copies (2007).
• Danger and Opportunity: Bridging Cultural Diversity for Competitive Advantage, which has sold over 3,000 copies (2013).

Throughout his consulting practice, Lionel Laroche makes use of his 30 years of international engineering, management, sales and human
resources experience, working with people from over 60 countries. He has worked in eight different countries for several multinational
companies, including Xerox, Procter & Gamble, British Petroleum, and Jeumont-Schneider. 

Born in France, Lionel Laroche obtained his Diplôme d’Ingénieur Polytechnicien from the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris. Laroche also holds a
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He worked for Procter & Gamble in Canada, Germany, Italy and the
U.S.; he also worked for Xerox and British Petroleum. In all cases, he was part of multinational project teams where cultural differences had far
more of an impact than most of his teammates realized. This led Lionel Laroche to start his own cross-cultural consulting firm in 1998. As a
result of his up-to-date knowledge and expertise, Lionel incorporates all the lessons he has faced within Canada's work environment and the
information he learns through his consultation practice to every audience.

Lionel lives back and forth between Calgary and Toronto. His travel fees depend on where he is located during the time of your event.