About

Built on 27 years inside post-secondary education.

Farbod Karimi, EdD, is the founder and principal of Odyssey Consulting. He brings more than 27 years of experience in post-secondary education to helping institutions and organizations design learning programs that are well built, accessible and ready for quality review. Farbod has worked across the full range of academic roles: professor, Academic Chair in the School of Business, Chair of Learning and Teaching Services, and Interim Dean at Algonquin College. He knows how programs are built, reviewed and approved from the inside, and he knows what makes them work for learners and for faculty. Farbod holds a Doctor of Education from the University of San Francisco. He works with clients across Canada and the United States from his base in Ottawa I started Odyssey after more than 27 years in post-secondary education as a professor, academic chair, teaching and learning centre leader, and dean. Every engagement draws on that experience with academic standards, ministry requirements, and what makes a course work for learners.

Farbod Karimi, principal consultant at Odyssey Consulting
Farbod Karimi, principal consultant at Odyssey Consulting

What Odyssey Consulting does

Odyssey Consulting helps post-secondary institutions, public-sector organizations, and companies design learning programs that are well built, accessible, and able to stand up to quality review.  Odyssey's work also covers program and course design, quality reviews and ministry submissions, faculty development, Universal Design for Learning, accessibility reviews, and the responsible use of educational technology and AI.

Odyssey Team and Clients

Through Odyssey, Farbod leads a team of instructional designers, multimedia developers and subject-matter experts. They have designed programs for public colleges, including St. Lawrence College, and built workshops for the Canadian Police College, delivered online, face to face and in hybrid formats.

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Odyssey Consulting

Program design and quality assurance for post-secondary and public-sector organizations.

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