Jeff Griffiths

Jeff Griffiths

Program Director, Albert Talent Pipeline Management Initiative

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.  

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.  

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