Cooperative Leadership Forum

The forum is a dynamic, hands-on learning experience that provides opportunities to interact with others with similar interests and goals. Participants form teams and work together to:

- Create their own cooperative
- Develop a business plan for their co-op
- Develop a governance structure
- Create pro forma
- Develop an operations, marketing and distribution plan
- Tour local cooperatives

Attendees experience day-to-day operations while visiting local cooperatives. These tours will add value to the overall learning experience, helping to create a more valuable and knowledgeable employee that excels in a broad based cooperative system. New and prospective directors will emerge better prepared to make informed decisions and understand their fiduciary role, to the members they represent. New employees will appreciate a clear understanding of their unique cooperative and their relationship with the co-op’s members-owners-customers.