About CLearThink Group
ClearThink™ Group is an independent, award-winning management consultancy in Canada for over 30 years. Our experience, grit and know-how includes a wide scope of disciplines, industries and organizations ranging from small business start-ups to corporate, non-profits and government organizations.
Clearthink Team
Keleigh Cormier, FCMC
Keleigh is founder and president of ClearThink™ Group and co-founder of Connect for Food. Based in Alberta, Canada, she focuses on initiatives that strengthen rural economies and advance agritourism.
Keleigh has been actively consulting to businesses for over 30 years. She has the experience and capability to visualize the desired outcomes of client projects and facilitate an actionable plan to get there. Keleigh’s critical thinking skills and style provide entrepreneurs and leaders with a clear and practical path to achieving their goals. She has received her fellowship and is now an FCMC.
For 30 years, Keleigh has advised hundreds of business owners, managers, and teams, assisting with opportunities and challenges which occur in these settings. Her areas of expertise include: Business Strategies and Planning; Market Research and Evaluation; Feasibility Studies; New Product / Market Development; General Business Consulting and Coaching. She has worked in many sectors from agriculture to tourism to technology including the Alberta Open Farm Days Coaching Program, the Back to Business Coaching Program (Rural Municipality Wood Buffalo; Town of Sylvan Lake & Bentley AB; Community Futures Wild Rose) and Industrial Research Assistance Program – Management Assistance Services (National Research Council of Canada and Alberta Innovates).
Her educational qualifications include: B. Comm., School of Businesses, University of Alberta; Certified Management Consultant (CMC), CMC-Alberta; Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC), CMC-Canada; New Product Development Certificate, York University; Indigenous Canada, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Her professional memberships include CMC-Alberta, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC), CMC-Global, and Sherwood Park & Strathcona County + Sylvan Lake Chambers of Commerce.
Her volunteer engagements have ranged from business to community settings. She is involved in her professional association: CMC-Alberta. Currently a professional assessor of CMC candidates, co-chair of the FCMC selection committee and member of the CMC oral assessment committee. Keleigh also served as past chair & board director of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Alberta (CMC-Alberta). She has volunteered with The Business Link (guest advisor program), TEC Edmonton (Tec Source Advisory Panel), Mentor to University of Alberta Business Students and ATB’s Mentorship Program. Other volunteer activities include Canadian Parents for French and 4H. She was actively involved in the family ranching operations including raising beef cattle and thoroughbred racehorses.
Keleigh is on the regional committee as co-chair of GAN North America.
Pierre Cormier, CMC, CAC
Pierre is a seasoned professional advising leaders in achieving solid business growth for over 20 years. His entrepreneurial zest provides a high level of energy and devotion to all client projects. As a professional consultant and coach, Pierre has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs in reaching optimal potential and performance.
Pierre’s consulting experience in the agri-business, manufacturing, retail, technology, tourism, and professional services sectors bring depth and knowledge to all projects including Industrial Research Assistance Program – Management Assistance Services (National Research Council of Canada and Alberta Innovates), the Alberta Open Farm Days Coaching Program, the Business Coaching Program (Community Futures Wild Rose & Towns of Sylvan Lake and Bentley) and the Back to Business Coaching Program (Rural Municipality Wood Buffalo). Pierre’s areas of expertise include: Business Strategies and Planning; Market Research and Evaluation; Feasibility Studies; New Product / Market Development; Business & Sales Coaching; Trade Missions & Matchmaking.
Pierre’s current accreditations and memberships include Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Certified Trainer – Destination Creation Bootcamp, Canadian Association of Farm Advisors (CAFA), Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC), Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC), Canadian & Alberta Bison Associations and Sherwood Park & Strathcona County + Sylvan Lake Chambers of Commerce.
Pierre’s volunteer initiatives include Engagement Committee, CMC-Canada 2022 Catalyst Conference; Business Mentor, Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce; Strategic Marketing Advisor, TEC Source Advisory Panel, TEC Edmonton; Director, Canadian Association of Management Consultants ; Chair, Certified Agricultural Consultants; Business Plan Evaluator & Mentor, VenturePrize, TEC Edmonton (Edmonton Economic Development Corporation and the University of Alberta); President, Vice President, Director, Resource Industry Suppliers Association; Guest Advisor, The Business Link. Pierre has made presentations at NAIT, Grant MacEwan University, U of Alberta and industry conferences on topics around entrepreneurship & tourism.
Pierre has always enjoyed volunteering at his children’s elementary school (Ardrossan) to assist in developing student reading skills within Alberta’s French Immersion Program.
Pierre is on the Executive Committee as Treasurer, Leadership – Global Agritourism Network.
ClearThink™ In
Agritourism & Food Security
ClearThink Group provides agritourism strategy, consultation, and education working with farms, rural communities, and industry organizations across Canada and internationally.
Professional Designations
Certified Management Consultants (CMC)
The Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation is the profession’s only international certification mark, recognized in over 45 countries. It represents a commitment to the highest standards of consulting and adherence to the ethical canons of the profession.
The Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation is the profession’s only international certification mark, recognized in over 45 countries. It represents a commitment to the highest standards of consulting and adherence to the ethical canons of the profession. CMC-Canada (the Canadian Association of Management Consultants) administers, and its provincial institutes confer, the CMC designation in Canada.
As CMC’s, we abide by the Uniform Code of Professional Conduct with intelligent, ethical and reliable management consulting services. Our perspective has steadfastly remained as objective observers, trusted advisors and when required, hands on implementers.
Canadian Association of Farm Advisors (CAFA)
The Canadian Association of Farm Advisors is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to assisting farm businesses by increasing the skills and knowledge of farm advisors. Its mission is to continually improve the quality of advice being given to farm producers and their families, including agribusiness.
The Canadian Association of Farm Advisors is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to assisting farm businesses by increasing the skills and knowledge of farm advisors. Its mission is to continually improve the quality of advice being given to farm producers and their families, including agribusiness. CAFA advisors maintain high standards while continually increasing farm advisory skills and knowledge intended to provide measurable value to their farm clients.
Making use of the knowledge and expertise offered by ClearThink professionals brings a broader perspective and inspires new strategies to address our common goal: helping family farm businesses solve their unique challenges.
Fellow Certified Management Consultant (FCMC)
The Fellow – Certified Management Consultant (FCMC) designation, is awarded to CMC-registrants of the Institute who have shown many years of ongoing excellence & innovation in their craft; significant contribution to the advancement of our professional community; and been exemplary in giving back to the community at large and being ethical in their work.
Certified Agricultural Consultants (CAC)
The Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC) designation represents experience, capability, adherence to ethical and professional standards relating to Canadian Agri-food businesses and organizations.