It goes without saying that high-quality education is top of the list for parents. Therefore, it’s to be expected that schooling is a delicate subject for international assignees with accompanying school-age dependents. This is also an important area of focus for clients, who typically use…

Helping international assignees move their pets from one international location to another is nothing really new to me. Or, at least, that’s what I thought when I began working with an employee who was moving from Russia to Switzerland and needed to move her pet bulldog.

Actor Christian Bale once said about empathy, “It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.” Having recently assisted a client in developing and integrating a particularly sensitive program for former employees, I see that the…

In the course of an “average” day, I can find myself assisting assignees with any number of unique challenges. But there is one situation that really stands out for me. In addition to meeting the long-term needs of a  transferring employee, his wife and their children, I also needed to find…