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Celebrating leadership with Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence

Date: November 9, 2015

Author: Rural Ontario Institute

It is our pleasure to share that the Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) was honoured as a recipient of the Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence today in Cambridge, Ontario.

This award recognizes two leadership training programs that ROI has developed and delivered across Ontario – BUILD Leadership and the Future Leaders Development Program. These programs have been implemented in partnership with Beef Farmers of Ontario and CanWest DHI, Dairy Farmers of Ontario, EastGen and Holstein Canada respectively.   

“We are very pleased to accept this honour and are proud to continue to deliver programming to increase leadership skills and build capacity of current and emerging leaders in rural Ontario,” says Rob Black, Chief Executive Officer, ROI.

 

For more information, please see the full news release here.