“Rhonda is a highly capable specialist in her field and we have benefitted from her expertise, advice and insight. She is also an outstanding team player and a highly motivated person who was instrumental in ensuring that we advanced towards our organization. During her time with WUSC, and as part of her mandate, Rhonda led in the design and implementation of various leadership and communications training sessions for a range of partners, including the private sector, senior personnel and staff of  international development organizations, youth and civil society organizations. She also led in the research and analysis of soft skills provision in the country, providing an evidence based report which was used to strategically guide WUSC's decision making.”

Esther McIntosh, Country Director (Fmr.)
World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Sri Lanka

“Rhonda and I worked in many different environments together, including Egypt, Tunisia, Switzerland and at our head office in Norway. Each time we did so I observed Rhonda’s unique ability to adapt effortlessly to new situations, changes in setting and environments. No matter the environment, Rhonda is always very mindful of intercultural nuances, is competent, diplomatic, and politically sensitive. Rhonda was a fantastic leader in GNRD. She quickly gained the respect of everyone within the organisation and staff looked to her for guidance, help and advice. She helped implement positive change and motivated employees and everyone she met to be the best versions of themselves and to achieve their goals. Rhonda showed she really cared, committing herself to helping people. Rhonda mentored many employees within GNRD and all of them commented on how positive, open and helpful she is. Rhonda is very approachable, she exudes charisma and her enthusiasm is utterly infectious. I would not hesitate to recommend Rhonda.”

Mrs. Victoria Elgenes, Director
GNRD, Norway

“Rhonda brings wisdom and experience into the classroom from her life of work around the world and from a diversity of professional activities. I have known Rhonda as passionate about social justice. In that regard, she is willing to be open and self-critical especially when it comes to questions of power and privilege. I would know her as a person who seeks to create positive change in the world. For example, I am aware she was involved in planning with a team, a successful conference in 2018 on Restorative Justice at our institution.”

Mary Lou Klassen, MTS, Adjunct Instructor,
Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

“During my time in Jamaica, I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Rhonda Belous. Rhonda is a very compassionate person who quickly demonstrated strong empathy for disadvantaged people, and women and youth in particular. More important, however, is her ability to engage people in conversation, quickly win their trust and confidence, and work with them in identifying problems and solutions. 

Rhonda’s presentation skills are outstanding. The effort she puts into researching a topic and her ability to present her findings while eliciting the participation of her audience are exceptional. Rhonda would be an invaluable asset to any organization that is concerned about the health and well-being of its citizens. I recommend her without hesitation.”

Mr. John Wilson, Former Director 
Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services and Past Executive Director of Community Living 
Oakville, Ontario, Canada

“Rhonda joined us for a short-term contract in 2019-2020. We selected Rhonda due to her exemplary proposal that clearly identified her as the best candidate for our project, which was to develop a new set of curriculum modules in support of our Next Generation high school program. Rhonda was wonderful to work with; she quickly understood our complex needs and in a short time produced a curriculum series that has elevated the quality of the program. In addition, Rhonda brings with her a sense of empathy and intercultural understanding that creates a warm, inclusive working relationship. It was a pleasure to collaborate on our project, and I strongly recommend her services.”

Rachel Mansell, Vice President, Operations
Mosaic Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

“Rhonda has a keen mind, high energy, refined and expanding skill set, especially in the areas of helping others and issues of social justice. Your instincts will tell you, whether staff or client, that you can trust this person and you will be absolutely right... She has a high degree of commitment to a cooperative decision making model as one might experience in Indigenous or feminist decision making models. It is without doubt or reservation that I recommend Rhonda to you for your ongoing consideration.”

William Peacock, Professor (Fmr.), 
Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

“Rhonda has completed several key projects for me. For example, she brought a high level of professionalism, a unique perspective, and was instrumental to the successful launch of a new website for one of my core businesses. She crafted and edited copy for the website and continuously recommended and executed many other successful marketing initiatives for this business. When I think of Rhonda, I think of these adjectives: thorough, determined, resourceful, detailed, persistent, knowledgeable, and solution-driven.”

Kerry Beck, President and Founder,
Recruitment Roster, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

“Rhonda designed our leadership training modules according to the local context and audience with added components such as communication, conflict resolution, and valuing differences, and conducted trainings to private sector partners and various stakeholders, including members of an lnternational NGO Forum. I had been co-facilitating some of her training programmes and doing translation to local language (from English to Tamil and Sinhalese), so I had seen first-hand, her expertise and her excellent facilitation skills during the training. She is passionate about youth and women from vulnerable communities in Sri Lanka and wanted to motivate, encourage and strengthen their capacity through awareness and capacity building training. One of Rhonda's initiatives called 'The Leadership Café, which created space for diverse youth to come together for peer supporting, dialogue on various issues and networking was a very good model for marginalized youth in Sri Lanka.”

Puva Puvaneswary, Manager / Gender Equality & Social lnclusion,
World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Sri Lanka