The Sarnia seminar offered participants a valuable opportunity to learn, connect, and reflect, but one moment stood out as especially meaningful: the luncheon honouring Peter Hannam and his lasting legacy in Ontario agriculture and the Advanced Agricultural Leadership...

Armed with a warm coffee in hand, the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) Class 21 travelled through a significant snowstorm to reach Sarnia, Ontario. The primary theme of this seminar centered on developing awareness of self and others to support our individual leadership journeys.

The Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) continues to deliver transformative experiences for its participants, and Webinar C was no exception. Built around the theme of Connect, Review, Practice, and Explore Issues Together, this session provided an...

On the blustery first morning of December, before sunrise, AALP class 21 boarded our bus to make our way to Queen’s Park, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario located in downtown Toronto.  Some of us had been there on other occasions and for some it was the first...

During our AALP Class 21 Toronto tour, we stepped inside parts of the food system that most people never see yet everyone depends on. From massive distribution hubs to family-run dairies and urban farms, each stop offered powerful leadership lessons about scale,...

There is nothing like being a kid riding a bike down a hill without a care in the world… One of the farms my family lived on had two houses – one for the boss and one for the hired hand (that would be us!). Both homes sat on the top of a hill. Well, hill might be an...

It has been a long time since I saw the Northern Lights so high in the sky. Sometimes as I walk, they skim the edge of the northern horizon at this time of year. The best views of them would be in the early hours of the morning – and I am not a morning person! Last night though, as Gert and I drove home from a concert, we saw them dancing above us.

On October 7, 2025, AALP Class 21 gathered for an insightful Webinar B, where we revisited The Leadership Challenge, introduced the Issues Analysis group project, received an advisory team update, and discussed our upcoming seminar in Toronto. With keynote...

A good friend tells me that it is strange for someone to go walking at night. I get it. Days when I do walk in the light reveal the breathless shades of fall leaves, the contrast of red dogwood branches against white snow, the changing hues of birch and poplar as...

By: Aodin MacDonell, AALP Class 21 Back Row from left to right: Sunit Chandan, Mel Karpenko, Kristy Nudds, Aodin MacDonell, Mike Barun, Liam van Steekelenburg, Andrew Munro, Greg de Vos, Angela Zilke.Front row from left to right: Kelsey Randhawa, Julie Danen, Kaitlin...