Clad in body armor in a van racing along a Ukrainian highway from Warsaw to Kyiv, doling out carrots to his security team, the international businessman could be forgiven for thinking he was in a surreal dream.

But for Jay Rosenzweig, this important fact-finding mission as Chair of the Board of Canadian-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights was just another leg in his journey to change the world for the better, beyond his day job running a global executive recruitment and talent strategy firm headquartered in Toronto.