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Case Study

Driving Innovation for Farmers

Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) is owned and operated by Ontario’s dairy farms. DFO is responsible for providing leadership in the production of Canadian milk and dairy products. DFO ensures “A dynamic profitable growing Canadian dairy industry.”

500 Connections

Facilitated 500+ ecosystem connections between entrepreneurs, industry specialists, and stakeholders

175+ Participants

More than 100 entrepeneurs and 75 participants

Increased volume

Milk Volume increased by over 1.4M litres/year

Funding & Awards

Awarded over $500,000 in grants, funding 50+ projects

The Challenge

A Canadian municipality needed to help 100 leaders integrate newly defined organizational values into everyday leadership practice.

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, the focus shifted to supporting leaders through rapid change, frontline decision-making, workplace reintegration, and the transition to hybrid work.

Our Solution

Pollinate used Cross-Pollinate AI™ to strategically match leaders into supportive cohorts with senior leaders from across the organization.

The cohorts met through the summer and fall of 2020, giving leaders a space to share challenges, exchange best practices, and receive real-time support. Pollinate also supported senior leaders with coaching, 360 leadership feedback, and a self-serve portal of leadership resources.

The Results

The program created strong engagement across the municipality’s leadership group and helped leaders feel supported during a period of major uncertainty.

Participants described the cohorts as a “lifeline” during a challenging time, while the municipality gathered best practices, surfaced improvement opportunities, and increased alignment around workplace reintegration after the first lockdown

Dairy Farms of Ontario Milk logo.

Testimonials & Custom Content

Testimonials

“DFO has taken an active role in supporting the entrepreneurial efforts of many dairy processors, including on-farm processors that have decided to vertically integrate. Through our Start-Up/Scale-Up platform in collaboration with Pollinate we have been able to provide guidance, mentorship and grants to many participants in the program, tracking our progress and results to support the sustainability and growth of the Ontario Dairy Industry.”

Alan Grebinski

Director, Business & Educational Development, Dairy Farmers of Ontario

“Since receiving Scale Up Program support to switch from imported butter oil to domestic cream] we have had great success with the quality of our products. Our customers are very happy to see the blue cow now on our labels & again the quality of our products is incomparable from before the switch!”

Central Smith Creamery

“We were able to complete our logo, sell sheets, business cards, product labels and website with the Scale Up Program funding. All our content is top notch, we love the look and feel of our brand and everyone who sees it loves it too.”

Sargent Family Dairy

“The support we have received has had a positive and effective impact on ADM Dairy, helping us think strategically in different ways for success. I am especially grateful for help with our business model and marketing.”

ADM Dairy Inc.

“All the big store chains want exact weight wedges and thanks to the exact weight cutting machine and the packaging machine [purchased with support from the Scale Up Program] we are able to produce the exact weight wedges.”

Stonetown Artisan Cheese Ltd.

Various dairy brand logos supported by DFO.

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