100 participants selected for this unique leadership experience program
From May 22 to June 1, the Caribbean Canada Leaders Dialogue 2025 (CCLD 2025)
educational leadership experience hosts 100 participants from the Caribbean and
Canada for a cross-sector experiential leadership development program.
Under the CCLD 2025 umbrella theme of Impact-Driven Leadership: Creating Positive
Change in Our Communities, there is a focus on six crucial sub-themes – diversity and
inclusion, sustainability and innovation, ethics, impact, collaboration, and advocacy.
An opening plenary will be held in Toronto, Ontario with all 100 participants who will
have the opportunity to hear from leaders across government, industry, education, and
civil society.
During the opening, seven groups of 14 participants, and one group of 16, will be
created with a mandatory sector balance. Each tour will travel to one Caribbean country to explore one of the six sub-themes, with the 7th group exploring the umbrella conference theme. Tour countries include Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, and Jamaica.
The diverse participants selected from across Canada and the Caribbean, will have
first-hand exposure to new peer-to-peer interactive learning experiences provoking
dialogue across real-time, complex issues, so that the quality and relevance of their
decision-making is improved.
Participants will learn from site visit interaction, and more importantly, from each other.
Equally important is that field visits/reports must have unanimous team support – the
magic formula that makes these conferences so unique. Team members align
themselves with opposite sector colleagues to carry their points internally, producing
better dialogues and more informed citizens.
Meeting again at the closing plenary in Barbados, ideas, concepts, and solutions
explored during the tours will be presented to a panel for further dialogue and
exploration.
Applications are accepted from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, Montserrat, Netherlands
Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and the United States Virgin Islands;
and across all of Canada’s provinces and territories.
Working across business, government, labour, education and civil society, dialogues
create the competencies and connections in support of Canada, the Caribbean and the
Commonwealth community.
“CCLD 2025 is built on the legacy of the proven Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth
Study Conference protocol. 68-years since its inception, the concept delivers.
Commonwealth dialogues highlight what is possible when sectors come together,” said
Ms.Rianna Patterson, country host for Dominica.
Applications close March 1, 2025. For more information about CCLD 2025, including
application details and sponsorship opportunities, please visit
Comments