From 22 May to 1 June, 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 programme.
Under the CCLD 2025 umbrella theme of Impact-Driven Leadership: Creating Positive Change in Our Communities, there is a focus on 6 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 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 6 sub-themes, with the 7th group exploring the umbrella conference theme. Tour countries include The 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, St 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 Nickolas Steele, head of the local organising committee for Grenada.
Applications close on 1 March 2025. For more information about CCLD 2025, including application details and sponsorship opportunities, please visit http://commonwealthleaders.org.
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