Agrifood & Agritourism
Strategy, facilitation and award-winning project leadership for farms, food systems and rural communities. Built on 30+ years of certified management consulting in Canada and globally.
Certified Management Consultants | 30+ Years of Industry Experience | Award-Winning Coaching & Facilitation
🇬🇧 Catch Pierre Cormier, CMC at the Inaugural Global Agritourism Conference 2026 — Aberdeen, Scotland, June 23–25. Chair, Session 6.4 Sustainability & Sustainable Food. Speaker, Session 8.2 Country Insights.
For over three decades, ClearThink™ Group has helped Canadian businesses, communities and government bodies turn opportunity into action. Today, Keleigh and Pierre Cormier focus that experience on the agrifood and agritourism sectors, working at the regional and community scale where strategy, facilitation and stakeholder convening produce measurable outcomes.
Our Expertise
Four practice areas where ClearThink delivers strategic, regional-scale impact across the agrifood value chain.
Agritourism
Visitor-ready farm experiences, agritourism business models, on-farm risk and liability planning, and the practical work of opening the farm gate to guests. Insights drawn from town halls, workshops and on-farm residencies across Alberta and the international Global Agritourism Network.
Agrifood Systems
Connecting producers, processors, retailers, restaurants and consumers around regional food. Stakeholder convening, supply-chain mapping and the kind of patient facilitation that turns fragmented players into a connected food system, where more of what we grow is what we eat.
Economic Development
Strategy and feasibility work that grows the agrifood and rural tourism contribution to regional economies. Market research, opportunity assessment, business case development and the certified-management-consultant rigour that grant funders, municipalities and Community Futures bodies expect.
Rural Growth
Diversification, resilience and the people-side of rural community building. Town halls, coaching programs, succession conversations and the long-arc work of helping farm families and rural businesses adapt, reinvest and pass on what they have built.
Our Approach
We bring objectivity, clarity and a balanced perspective to our work with farms, food businesses, rural communities, non-profits and government. Our agri-business and tourism experience adds depth to every project.
No. 1
Relevant Experience and Objectivity
Our Certified Management Consultants bring deep experience in market research, opportunity identification, strategy and coaching. We see the whole business and understand the cross-functional implications of opportunities and challenges. We address root issues, not symptoms.
No. 2
A Team First Perspective
We work closely with you to understand your unique challenges and opportunities. We advocate clear communication through participation, input and shared knowledge — the ingredients of every successful project. In agrifood work, that often means convening 200+ stakeholders around a shared regional vision.
No. 3
A Comprehensive and CLEAR Plan
We design effective plans that meet your needs. A clear plan delivers powerful decision-making for clients today and into the future. We translate strategy into deliverable workstreams that funders, boards and operators can act on.
Featured Project: Connect for Food
Northeast Alberta FOOD — Finding Our Own Diversity
A two-year, region-scale initiative to revitalize the Northeast Alberta agrifood economy, delivered for Community Futures St. Paul-Smoky Lake Region and recognized as CMC-Canada’s 2025 Project of the Year (Gold).
Led by Keleigh Cormier (FCMC) and Perry Phillips, with the ClearThink team including Cara Shan, Brooke MacLean and Pierre Cormier (CMC), the project engaged 250+ producers, organizations and municipal leaders, co-created vision and mission for the new Agrifood Network Alberta, and catalyzed grassroots momentum around regional sourcing, value-added processing and distribution.
The work continues under the Connect for Food banner — Grow what we eat. Eat what we grow.
“The Connect for Food project started with a simple conversation and grew into a powerful community-based movement — we listened, adapted and let the community lead. What emerged was a model rooted in connection and shared knowledge about food and our agrifood systems. It’s been incredible to see youth engagement, local/regional food discovery and momentum growing beyond our region. This wasn’t just a project, it was a shift in how we think about food, community and resilience.”
— Penny Fox, General Manager, Community Futures St. Paul-Smoky Lake Region
Awards & Recognition
Meet Your Consultants
Keleigh Cormier, FCMC
Founder & President, ClearThink™ Group · Co-founder, Connect for Food · Co-Chair, GAN North America
Keleigh has been actively consulting to businesses for over 30 years, with deep work across agriculture, tourism and technology. Her critical thinking and facilitation give entrepreneurs and leaders a clear, practical path to their goals — from the Alberta Open Farm Days Coaching Program to the Back to Business Coaching Program and the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.
Keleigh holds her Fellowship as an FCMC and a Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC), with a B. Comm. from the University of Alberta. She co-chairs the FCMC selection committee for CMC-Alberta and sits on the regional committee as co-chair of GAN North America. She was actively involved in family ranching, raising beef cattle and thoroughbred racehorses.
Pierre Cormier, CMC, CAC
Partner, ClearThink™ Group · Treasurer & Education Committee, Global Agritourism Network · Chair, Session 6.4, Global Agritourism Conference 2026
Pierre has advised leaders on solid business growth for over 20 years, mentoring hundreds of entrepreneurs in agri-business, tourism, manufacturing, retail and professional services. He has worked extensively across the Alberta Open Farm Days Coaching Program, Business Coaching Programs (Community Futures Wild Rose, Towns of Sylvan Lake and Bentley) and the Back to Business Coaching Program for Wood Buffalo.
Pierre is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Certified Agricultural Consultant (CAC) and Certified Trainer for the Destination Creation Bootcamp. He serves as Treasurer and Education Committee member on the executive of the Global Agritourism Network, and is a keynote speaker and session chair at the inaugural Global Agritourism Conference 2026 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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.
Hire us for your agrifood or agritourism initiative.
Whether you’re a producer ready to open the farm gate, a community building a regional food system, or a funder shaping rural strategy, we’d be glad to talk.