Based in Rancho Santa Fe, California, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and corporate events across the U.S. and in other nations.

He subsequently attended New College, Oxford for a year, sponsored by the Ambassadorial Scholarships program of Rotary International, where he was a student of Anne Barton.

He received the Ross Essay Prize of the American Bar Association in 1985 for a study of compensation of victims of environmental disasters.

He practiced environmental and corporate law for Davis Graham & Stubbs in Denver, Colorado in 1986–88, where he worked with Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr.

He served in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations as general counsel of the United States Office of Personnel Management under Director Constance Horner (1988–89).

[2] In 1991 California Governor Pete Wilson appointed Strock to his cabinet as the founding Secretary for Environmental Protection.

Among the honors accorded the agency was an Innovations in American Government Award selected by the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School.

He served on the Founders Council of Unity 08, a technology-based, non-partisan reform initiative established to provide an alternative to the traditional party presidential candidates in the 2008 election.