As an experienced entrepreneur, business owner and executive in his own right, Trefor understands the challenges facing leaders. He has demonstrated his capabilities in Strategic Planning, Organizational Transformation, Stakeholder Management, and Communications.

Trefor is a skilled Coach who works comfortably with executives and business leaders to help them establish and implement strategic plans and tactics they need.
As a Master Coach with a background in behavioral psychology, a Masters in Communications, and as a Certified Professional Business Coach, Trefor has a wide
range of methodologies from which to draw in order to help leaders regardless of the circumstances they face.

As the Co-Leader and Co-Founder of Rhapsody Strategies, Trefor works regularly with a wide cross-section of clients—from Directors of small volunteer Boards to billion-dollar companies—to help them accomplish the goals they have set for themselves and the organization. This is an area of great deal of passion for Trefor as he has seen what happens when leaders genuinely take control of their future.

Trefor has worked with leaders involved in a broad range of industries face issues related to international trade and security, organizational transformation, cross-border critical infrastructure protection, and future scenario modeling. While working the leaders as they face important business issues, Trefor has also helped them navigate very sensitive and emotionally loaded topics such as the suicide of employees, marital breakdown, substance abuse, mental health challenges, and others.

In his previous role as Director of National Security & Public Safety for The Conference Board of Canada, Trefor provided leadership and facilitated for a wide range of
organizations including:
• The G8 in Moscow, Russia,
• APEC in Lima, Peru,
• The African Union in Algiers, and
• The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, Austria.

Trefor has also briefed the National Infrastructure Advisory Council to the President of the United States. Under his leadership, Trefor has worked with senior levels of the Department of Homeland Security to coach them through a series of intense discussions with the leaders of major companies in both Canada and the United States. Trefor directly guided them through discussions to identify gaps in cross-border critical infrastructure projection, and the development of a common action plan. This work addressed a range of complex core issues including information sharing, threat assessments, understanding of interdependencies, prioritization sequencing, and others.

Trefor has also served as a Principal Strategy Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the course of this work, he worked with senior leaders in a diverse range of
organizations around the world including Canada and the United States, Spain, Israel, and a long-term project in India. This work involved the facilitation of leadership teams to develop critical strategies and to support their subsequent transformation.

Mike has a B.A.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and the CFA designation. He serves on the board of directors of several not-for-profit organizations. He is a member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec and the CFA Institute. Mike has received awards from CFO Canada, the Bronfman Foundation, and Startup Canada.