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March 17, 2025

9:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.

The Centennial Hotel
Spokane, WA

Join us for Innovia’s Thriving Communities Summit. This event will feature a workshop with celebrated author and renowned speaker Doug Griffiths on “The Seven Essentials: Unlocking the Path to Enduring Success.”

Session Overview

A Proven Roadmap for Success: Learn the seven foundational elements that every community and organization needs to thrive and how to put them into action effectively.
Insight into Common Pitfalls: Understand the critical mistakes many communities make and how to avoid them, drawing on lessons from 13 Ways to Kill Your Community.
Practical Strategies for Immediate Impact: Discover actionable steps you can take right away to create momentum and inspire lasting change in your community or organization.
A Fresh Perspective on Leadership and Collaboration: Explore how strong leadership and effective teamwork are essential to building a resilient, successful future.
Motivation and Tools to Drive Change: Leave feeling empowered, equipped with real-world examples and strategies to spark transformation and overcome challenges.

Cost of registration is $50, which includes lunch and the presentation and workshop.

Meet Our Speaker

Doug Griffiths is a wildly popular community strategist and author of two best selling editions of 13 Ways to Kill Your Community. He has supported, guided and inspired hundreds of communities to create effective change. Whether through speaking and presentations, or through advising and consulting, he is dedicated to helping communities across North America find their own pathway to success.

He grew up on a ranch outside a small town where he learned the value of hard work, critical thinking skills, and the value of community. That background led him into politics, but he insists he has since been through rehab and is fully recovered. His experience in politics gave him a deep understanding about how to move people and to get things done. He deliberately retired from politics in January 2015, after serving for 13 years, to return to his passion for community building.

Griffiths has an Executive MBA, and Honors B.A Philosophy Degree, as well as his Bachelor of Education, all from the University of Alberta where he has taught community and municipal leadership courses for elected officials and administration.