Jeff Griffiths is the Program Lead for the Alberta Talent Pipeline Management Initiative and the principal of J.L. Griffiths and Associates, a workforce and organizational development consultancy based in Calgary. He formerly served as the Director of Research for the Canada West Foundation public policy think-tank, and has been a leading Canadian practitioner in the field of competency-based training, development and recognition approaches for over 25 years. He is an advocate for recognizing skills and competencies regardless of where/how they are learned. He is a strong proponent for “learning integrated work – advocating and developing apprenticeship learning approaches across a variety of occupations.
Jeff began his career as an officer in the Canadian military, where his passion for the value of competencies was first established. After leaving the military, he worked in the manufacturing and aerospace sectors before launching his consulting practice, earning his Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation in 2001. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Alberta (FCMC) in 2014 in recognition of his service to the profession as the Registrar of ICMCA and his work on improving national certification and accreditation processes.
In addition to his field work, Jeff is a member of the Workforce Forum for the North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO), a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) National Learning Network, the Canadian representative to the “SKILLMAN.EU” international skills alliance, and serves with the Calgary-based Learning City Collective.