AMC is pleased to announce a new speaker session for GRIT: AMC’s Annual Convention and Trade Show.

Cadmus Delorme, former Chief of Cowessess First Nation and Founder of OneHoop Advisory Services and Flowing River Capital Group, will speak at this year's Convention and Trade Show. He will share his experience when, as Chief of Cowessess, he helped enhance the First Nation to grain farming and cattle. He will also share empowering messages about opportunities to learn from and partner with Indigenous Peoples and organizations to ensure sustainable future initiatives.

Register for GRIT: AMC’s 2025 Convention and Trade Show to participate in this engaging presentation.

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About the Speaker

Cadmus Delorme, a Cree and Saulteaux (pronounced: sow-toe), is a citizen of the Cowessess (pronounced: Cow-is-ess) First Nation. He is an accomplished leader, academic, volunteer and advocate.

Mr. Delorme served as Chief of the Cowessess First Nation from 2016 to 2023. Under his leadership, the Cowessess First Nation prioritized economic self-sustainability and progressed renewable energy, agriculture, and land use efficiency initiatives to create current and future business opportunities.

In 2021, Cadmus faced one of his most challenging moments as Chief when the Saulteaux and Cree First Nation made international headlines with the discovery of potentially 751 unmarked graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School. Shortly after, Cowessess made headlines again as the first First Nations community to sign an agreement with Ottawa that returns jurisdiction over children in care to the community. The federal government passed legislation overhauling Indigenous child welfare in 2019, and it came into force in 2020.

In April 2023, Mr. Delorme chose not to run for a third term and soon after became a Founder and Partner of OneHoop Advisory Services and Flowing River Capital Partners. These groups focus on enhancing the private equity market through the Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action #92: Business and Reconciliation and #57: Professional Development.

Cadmus is the Chair of the Residential Schools Document Advisory Committee and the University of Regina Board of Directors, serves on the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation Board of Directors and is a 2023 Banff Forum delegate.

List of Achievements

• Elected Chief of Cowessess First Nation from 2016 to 2023
• Received an honorary degree from the Saskatchewan Polytechnic Institution in 2023
• Achieved an Institute of Corporate Directors designation in 2021
• Achieved a Master of Public Administration from the Johnson-Shoyama (pronounced: Shoi-ama) Graduate School of Public Policy in 2016
• Achieved a Bachelor of Business Administration along with a Certificate in Hospitality, Tourism and Gaming Entertainment Management from the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) in 2013

Awards

• Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee in 2022
• Named one of CBC Saskatchewan’s Future 40. Celebrating the province’s new generation of leaders, builders, and change-makers under the age of 40 in 2015
• Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his student leadership and the hospitality he showed to King Charles III and the Queen Consort Camilla when they visited First Nation University of Canada in 2012