Start your day on a high note with a freshly prepared breakfast at Loft, located on the second floor at the Matrix Hotel.

Breakfasts in The Loft are included in your stay being provided by Alberta Canola.

Get ready for two interactive days at Canola Leaders!

The 20 participating Leaders will be divided into 4 tables of 5 in assigned seating for the sessions in Amber Room A. The seating assignments will change for Tuesday afternoon and for Wednesday morning.

Alberta Canola will provide an introduction to the Canola Leaders program and to the speakers and hosts joining us for the two days in Edmonton.

Learn more about the commission and the work being done to support the long-term success of canola growers in Alberta.

Start Where You Are and Lead the Way: 

Wherever we are in life, change is constant and we are always in transition to the next stage – whether in career, family or business. Let’s dig into some proven ways to have an impact and be an effective leader, no matter what your title is.

Key Outcomes:

• leadership mindset
• good practices worth repeating
• the shift from family to business communication: focus on conflict

Refreshment breaks are in Amber Room A.

Transforming farms into thriving businesses requires visionary leadership and strategy. This session focuses on practical tools that allow leaders to make informed decisions and drive long-term success. Focusing on the unique challenges in agribusiness, participants will design strategies that balance growth, resilience and sustainability. Participants will look at strategy as an integrated set of choices that positions them to "win" through sustainable advantage and superior results.

Lunch is served in the Amber B room - no assigned seating for lunches.

What makes a director an effective member of a healthy board?

Freda will discuss the basics of board governance and the foundations for organizational effectiveness that allow for individual directors to thrive in a leadership role as part of a high functioning organization.

Refreshment breaks are in Amber Room A.

Jay will share a few tips about empathy in communications (he’s on an empathy kick these days), provide tips on talking to the media and go around the room with a microphone and his “envelope of inquiries”. 

This is the time to head back to your room and put on your business attire for professional headshots & the evening banquet.

Alberta Canola has a professional photographer onsite in the Amber rooms to provide each leader with a professional headshot.

Please make sure you get your photo taken when you come down for the evening.

Any couples, can also have a couple photo, and we will be attempting a few group pictures as well.

Join Leaders, hosts, speakers, and special guests for some networking time over a beverage.

Alberta Canola is pleased to welcome our Leaders and their guests, speakers. staff, and other special guests to our banquet dinner event.

Seating for the banquet is not assigned.

Join Leaders, hosts, speakers, and special guests for some networking time over a beverage. (attendance is optional)

Start your day on a high note with a freshly prepared breakfast at Loft, located on the second floor at the Matrix Hotel.

Breakfasts in The Loft are included in your stay being provided by Alberta Canola.

Welcome to day 2 which is focused on policy & advocacy, and the work that is done on behalf of canola growers both provincially by Alberta Canola and nationally by the CCGA.

Alberta Canola will set the stage with an introduction to the topic and the morning's speakers including Bijon Brown and Kelly Green who will discuss both policy development and the government relations side of advocating for change.

Get to know the policy and advocacy speakers and learn from their years of experience in working with government to advance the interest of canola farmers.

Welcome to day 2 which is focused on policy & advocacy, and the work that is done on behalf of canola growers both provincially by Alberta Canola and nationally by the CCGA.

Alberta Canola will set the stage with an introduction to the topic and the morning's speakers including Bijon Brown and Kelly Green who will discuss both policy development and the government relations side of advocating for change.

Get to know the policy and advocacy speakers and learn from their years of experience in working with government to advance the interest of canola farmers.

Refreshment break in Amber A. Last chance to check out of your guest room.

Group work at your table with an assigned advisor. Learn the background on a current Alberta Canola policy position or ask of the government, and prepare for your mock meeting to advocate on behalf of Alberta's canola farmers.

From each table of five, 3 leaders will be advocating for canola farmers in a mock meeting with government officials. Each meeting will be approximately 10 minutes long.

Lunch is served in the Amber B room - no assigned seating for lunches.