Adele Du Plessis Email & Phone Number

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico & Siem Reap, Cambodia, South-East Asia

Wayist Pneumatherapist (spiritual-therapist), trained in India and SEA.

Sarnia, Ontario

Spearheaded initiative in rural Siem Reap, Cambodia - Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH)

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

• Deliver corporate cultural training, cross cultural training and teamwork skills.• Managing Expat Mentor Program, and assist with social networking and integrating into the community.• Assist in developing and design of course material. • Customer relations.• Marketing of courses and services. • General HR duties.• Provide global mobility services such as area tour, destination services and settling-in.• Knowledge of the career, mental, and psycho-social challenges that newcomers and persons on assignment in foreign countries deal with every day.

Sarnia, Ontario

Teaching 'Canadian Culture and You' CDN-1001 This course is for international students attending Lambton College. Its intent is to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills to understand academic life at Lambton, Canadian culture, and essential employability skills.

On contract - Express Employment Professionals• International, Cross-Border & Domestic Relocations - harmonizing processes and communication among colleagues, expatriates and their families, clients and service partners.• HR & Administrative duties • Cross-cultural awareness.• Interact with senior management globally, keeping communication and information lines open, creating positive relations and timely solutions• Liaised with numerous vendors providing global mobility services; such as immigration lawyers, relocation, cultural training, accommodation, banking, settlement, etc.• Experience in obtaining work permits, labour market opinions, permanent residency, extensions and renewals of permits, etc., for global employees on assignments in North America (Canada and USA). Liaised with and assisted immigration lawyers to ensure that paperwork is processed in a timely manner. Ensured that the employees were well informed of the processes and implications of the various applications.• Assist with Union negotiations to prepare assignment/relocation package for technicians earmarked for new Singapore plant.• ‘Go-to’ person for expats with questions and assistance on settling-in in their new communities.• Developed and maintained a job description database for 500 positions, as well as status spreadsheet for North America’s inbound and outbound expatriates on long and short term assignments.• Provided progress and follow-up reports as required.• Coordinated training, meetings, venues, travel arrangements, accommodation, etc. as and when needed. • Assisted in the review, re-design and implementation of a three-tier domestic relocation policy for the USA, Canada & cross-border relocations.

Non-profit organization providing management consultancy services to charities and non-profit, non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Southern Africa, India and Canada. Member of the Board of Directors, 1993 - 2000 • Spearheaded, motivated and launched an international program for young women who survived life as “street children” and grew up in shelters, to gain education and possible employment. • Liaise with donor-partners and sponsors from all over the world. Fund-raising and managing relations with partners for Theosis Educational Trust was the main focus of my attentions over the years. • Create feedback and fund-raising communications, training manuals and fund-raising materials to reflect positively on the organization and its leadership, programs and services.

Founder Member & Member Of The Board, 1990 - 2005

Group of organizations providing retrieval and residential care services to young women and children at risk (survival prostitution and homelessness) in Hillbrow, the inner city of Johannesburg, South Africa. * thehousegroup.org/history/archive/advocasy_1991to2001.pdf* thehousegroup.org/history/archive/• Developed and implemented resources to at-risk female children and female young adults. Programs provide a catch-net at street level, a Drop-in Centre, two residential Shelters, personal Skills Centers and self-employment skills Centers.• Nurtured media and public relationships - managed media exposure for about 150 print articles, radio broadcasts and television programs for The House Group. (http://thehousegroup.org/archive) • Managed relationships with foreign governments, mainly Dutch, Swedish, and USA. • Donor development and raising funds resulted in extensive and long term cooperation with top donor companies and international donors. • Managed budgets and handled HR generalist workplace issues.• Presented workshops and talks at several national and international conferences. • Over the years successfully trained and equipped no less than 250 staff and volunteers with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to provide holistic 24/7/365 services to as many as 70 children and young women at any given time in the four residential care centres. • Responsible for recruiting, selection and training of operations staff and volunteers to successfully work in a multi-faith and cross-cultural environment.• Counseling of troubled youth, acting as mediator between youth and families during integration with their family families. • Counseling of youth in distress, dealing with life-on-the-street, bereavement, anger, violence and health issues.

H.Ba, World Religions

Hrm, Human Resource Management

Ontario College Graduate Certificate - one year post graduate certificate with theory and practical application in: Recruitment &.

Certificate, Fundraising Management

Part-time studies

Diploma In Theology (Dipth), Cum Laude

NQF Level 6 (360 credits)