Immerse yourself in Canada’s military world to celebrate the local region, culture, and traditions regarding Canada’s armed forces. You will explore Canada’s military college and cultural artifacts in a heralded museum and deepen your understanding of military/uniformed services leadership through real-world historical or contemporary contexts while building connections with fellow attendees.

In the morning, the group will travel to the CFC, tour the CFC and interact with key leaders at the Canadian Forces College (CFC).  The CFC is part of the re-focused Canadian Defence Academy (CDA), which continues to exist now as an “education group” composed of the Royal Military College of Canada, the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, and the CFC. The CDA exists to champion lifelong learning, and to promote the professional development of members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The morning at CFC ends with a group lunch in the Dining Hall.  

The afternoon begins in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Museum of the Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI)—the largest military history museum in Toronto and one of the largest in Canada. With more than 15,000 artifacts and 10,000 archival materials, the RCMI collection spans centuries of Canadian military history. You’ll enjoy a private, behind-the-scenes tour of the collection—more than a gathering of objects, it’s a living record of leadership under pressure, sacrifice, and institutional memory, and a remarkable lens through which to examine how organizations build and protect their identity over time. 

Whether your leadership work is in uniform or not, this preconference offers meaningful connection to our host city and the kind of context that stays with you long after the conference ends.