Leadership Summit
Leaders create leaders.
Leadership Summit is an exciting opportunity for 4-H volunteer leaders and professionals to showcase the communities they are building, share innovative program ideas, and hear from experts on emerging topics. It includes a mix of workshops, an expert keynote, knowledge sharing, networking, and fun!
4-H is all about the “Learn To Do By Doing” approach. The best way to create a 4-H club where youth feel valued, connected, and supported is to experience these things when you attend Leadership Summit!
Leadership Summit 2025
Date: April 11-13 2025
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Open to: 4-H leaders, professional staff, and provincial supervisors
Theme: Thriving Youth, Thriving Leaders
How To Attend
Leadership Summit is open to 4-H volunteer leaders, 4-H professional staff and members of executives from across Canada who are in good standing per their provincial association. Registration is completed and payment is made to 4-H Canada directly. If your provincial association is covering a portion of your registration cost, please contact your provincial association for information on their reimbursement process.
Registration opens January 17 and closes April 8, 2025. Register today at: apply.4-h-canada.ca/prog/4-h_canada_leadership_summit
Please note: once registration is submitted, 4-H Canada will confirm good standing with the applicable provincial association. Registration is not confirmed until you receive a “Good Standing Confirmed” email from 4-H Canada. Should any issues arise in confirming good standing, the registration fee paid will be refunded.
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
About the Program
The goal at the end of Leadership Summit is that participants feel:
- Empowered with new knowledge and resources;
- Encouraged by the work being done by 4-H across the country;
- Valued, as we celebrate volunteer achievements;
- Connected, as we share successes and challenges, and you expand your network within the 4-H movement;
- Supported, as we share new resources and bring in experts to engage you in thinking about new approaches and best practices in positive youth development; and
- Equipped with new tools, skills, and ideas to take back to your club and share with your youth members.
What’s included in the registration fee?
Optional: Pre-Summit
Delegates attending out optional Pre-Summit will receive 4 additional hours of learning on Friday, April 11 in the following two sessions:
- 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET - “Fun ways to build connection and foster belonging”
- 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET - “Spotting Youth Sparks and Firing Them Up for Action”
Pre-Summit delegates will receive access to the recordings and materials for the above-mentioned sessions. Pre-Summit registration can be added to any registration option for $50 and takes place only on Friday, April 11.
Regular Summit Registration
Cost: $250
Registration for Leadership Summit 2025 will include:
- 10 hours of learning
- 2 keynote speakers
- 9 workshops in three blocks
- Provincial Sharing
- Networking sessions
- Access to all recordings and AI-generated transcripts after the event
- Access to all session materials
Registration opens January 17 and closes April 8, 2025. Register today at: apply.4-h-canada.ca/prog/4-h_canada_leadership_summit
For more information, check out the Leadership Summit 2025 Overview
Apply to be a Presenter
We are looking for proposals from 4-H leaders and professional staff who would like to share their experience and expertise with the other Leadership Summit participants. We will also be reaching out directly to external experts in a variety of fields. Presenter submissions must be received by Tuesday February 11, 2025. Applicants will receive a response by Friday February 21, 2025.
How will the presentations be selected?
All submissions will be reviewed by our 4-H Canada Leadership Summit program team. The selection criteria will include:
- Quality and clarity of the proposal - practical application, topic relevance to 4-H, and connection to Leadership Summit theme.
- Workshop approach – engaging, , participatory and interactive, offers discussion time, or a 'Learn To Do By Doing’ opportunity.
- Whether it addresses a unique or emerging issue, need, or approach.
- Whether it presents a model or practice that can be replicated within 4-H and/or a Positive Youth Development approach.
What should applicants and presenters expect?
- All applicants will be notified about the outcome of the review process by February 21, 2025.
- Workshops will be held Saturday April 12 for 90 minutes each, during three blocks of time: 10-11:30am ET, 1-2:30pm ET and 4-5:30pm ET.
- Workshops should be between 75 and 90 minutes in length, including time for Q&A.
- All presentations will be recorded and available to delegates through the event app. Presenters should be prepared for this as well as to make any relevant materials (resources, supports, etc.) available to be shared with participants in advance.
- All sessions will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Please specify any additional technology needs (i.e.: breakout rooms, collaborative whiteboard, etc.) and material needs in your submission.
- Each presenter will be given access to the digital event app (Guidebook). 4-H Canada staff will upload presenter headshots and bio information, as well as presentation materials, to this platform.
Deadline for submission
Please complete the Call for Presenters at forms.office.com/r/k9mamkmQYj
Proposal submission questions?
Please contact the 4-H Canada team at program@4-h-canada.ca