ExpatRepat Services
ExpatRepat Services equips individuals and families to face intercultural challenges. Our facilitators of learning attend to the view of reality those persons bring to the challenge of being an expatriate or a repatriate.
The message of a facilitator of cultural adjustment may well be ineffective, even though the one guiding the learning is well informed. Such a leader of the learning experiences may have failed to know enough about the learner, or the learner's family's concerns and expectations of things that lie ahead for them.
Our approach is to begin where the learners are, intellectually and emotionally. We assess their interests, concerns, and perceived needs they face as they approach expatriation or repatriation. After those assessments are made we prepare to engage them on their current interests, concerns and perceived needs. By starting with themes they have identified we are able to equip them with needed concepts and resources for the challenges before them.
Dr. Robert Scott supervises all aspects of the learning experiences. His insights into expatriate and repatriate challenges began in Japan and Korea when a young man in the U.S. Army. He served many years as a minister in Texas, New York and California. After completing a doctoral program in Adult Learning at UCLA, his career afforded him a wide range of intercultural relationships and experiences.
For three decades he has served clients domestically and internationally as a Management Consultant, facilitator of conflict management and conflict resolution, and in improving interpersonal communication. He and his colleagues have done work in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During 15 of those years he also provided leadership for cross-cultural radio programming in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and English broadcasts daily into the Pacific Basin countries and all of China and the former Soviet Union.
In 1996 Dr. Scott began research into cultural adjustment. He published a report of his findings as The Cultural Adjustment Process. This led to the founding of ExpatRepat Services. He has served business leaders as a Performance Coach, both domestically and internationally. Dr. Scott has guided efforts to provide cross cultural services for persons outbound to, serving in, or returning from countries such as: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Venezuela and the United States.
ExpatRepat Services has equipped individual employees or employee families for intercultural experiences from such companies as Albemarle, Halliburton, Kellogg, Samson Companies, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Sony, Texas A&M University, TXU, and U.S. Peace Corps.