

Our Team
Tony Cox | CEO and Senior Trainer
Tony has spent the best part of his life sleeping in tents, snow shelters, on mountain tops or beneath the stars. He spent 11 years in the Scouting movement and was honoured with its highest awards by the Governor General of Canada.
The year he turned 18, he planned a 26-day solo expedition to the desert canyons of the American South-West. Looking back, he acknowledges it as being a very pivotal transformative journey in his own development; the kind of experience that seems to be so absent for youth in the world today and the kind he has endeavored to create for others in his career ever since.
Tony spent six years leading groups of Canadian volunteers as they facilitated play therapy programs for refugee children and their communities during the war in Bosnia. He spent another 6 years working with young offender youth through powerful wilderness therapy programs.
In 2001, he was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice in Latvia to design a similar program for youth in custody there. He was awarded the Second Degree Service Medal and the Colours of Latvia for his work on those projects abroad.
Most recently, Tony spent 5 years at Outward Bound Canada, where he served as the Director of Innovation and Program Development for their Community Programs. In this role he liaised with Indigenous communities in eastern James Bay and the Territories to design expeditionary programs for their youth, supervised Asset Building expeditions for at-risk youth and served as their Instructor Trainer.
Tony has spent time honing his skills in the wilderness, war zones, lecture halls, classrooms and boardrooms. He is a deeply experienced Instructor and Trainer as well as being an engaging public speaker, workshop presenter and storyteller. As well as being the CEO here at Leaders of the Day, Tony is currently the Board Chair for the Canadian Adventure Therapy Advisory Committee and is a frequent Guest Lecturer at many Canadian Colleges and Universities. He lives with his 2 sons in the rolling hills of the Almaguin Highlands.