Faculty Profile - Lawrence Chi | Seneca Business | Seneca Polytechnic

Lawrence has been a proud Senecan since 2015, teaching in the diploma and post-graduate certificate programs. His courses reflect his corporate experience in and personal passion for global human resources management, training and recruitment. Lawrence has co-designed a course in emotional intelligence and consultative skills in a cross-cultural environment.

He believes in collaborating with other programs and heightening Seneca’sprofile with industry and academic partners. He partnered with the School of Legal & Public Administration to conduct mock interviews to train HR students in interviewing skills and Legal Admin students in interview skills. Lawrence is currently working on Seneca teams to design a Carthy Foundation-sponsored module on recruitment and retaining Indigenous Peoples; a microcredential cross-cultural training program with the Canadian Employee Relocation Council (CERC) and a virtual intercultural project between post-graduate certificate HR students and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands.

Lawrence also coaches expatriates and repatriates as well as conducts cross-cultural consulting. His community involvement includes being on the board of his boys’ school and interests include running insane distances as far as physically, emotionally and mentally possible, proudly wearing his Boston Bruins jersey in front of Leafs fans during springtime and riding his motorcycle northward. Learn more about Lawrence at www.TheExpatCompass.com

SB Newsletter: Fall 2020