Métis-founded leadership learning, rooted in the Alberta prairie.
Sweet Grass Co. creates practical leadership learning for people who want to lead with greater self-awareness, steadiness and care — beginning with the Prairie Paths digital series, and growing toward a future land-based Five-Day Experience.
Leanne Van Den Brink
Sweet Grass Co. was created by Leanne Van Den Brink, a Métis founder from Treaty 7 territory with a long career in Alberta healthcare administration and lived experience navigating leadership, systems and change.
Years working inside a complex system gave her a close view of how leadership actually lands on people — how decisions travel, where communication breaks, and how much difference one steady person can make on an ordinary day.
The work is shaped by Métis identity, prairie life, practical experience and the belief that leadership begins before a title is ever given.
A digital beginning, and a land-based future.
Prairie Paths came first: a four-book digital series that people can begin on their own, at their own pace. It moves from leading yourself, to leading beside one person, to leading teams through conflict, to bridging what stands between people and shared movement.
The Five-Day Experience is the next chapter — a future land-based experience where the land becomes part of the classroom. It is in development, and nothing about its dates, location or availability is confirmed.
Sweet Grass Co. is Métis-founded and grounded in Treaty 7 territory in Alberta. It speaks from that specific place and does not represent all Métis or Indigenous people, nor all Indigenous leadership traditions.
Begin where you are.
Prairie Paths is available now. The Five-Day interest list is open for whenever the land-based work is ready.