WE HELP
COMMUNITIES THRIVE
Meet Your
Community Growth Strategist
Doug Griffiths has helped improve over 500 communities across North America. After retiring from politics in 2015, he founded 13 Ways, a company dedicated to helping communities grow and thrive through speaking, consulting, rebranding as part of an overall community growth strategy. In his best-selling book, 13 Ways to Kill Your Community, Doug weaves data, personal experience and anecdotes with humour to explain the common challenges communities face around North America and to understand their paths to success.
“My mission is to push communities to face their challenges to find their unique path to success.”

What is 13 Ways?
The 13 Ways mission is to help communities thrive! Doug, along with his team of community, strategy and design experts have created several tools and services to help communities achieve success.
Speaking
Doug uses powerful stories and research to drive leaders to find solutions to challenges that plague communities.
Books
13 Ways to Kill your Community continues to be an inspiration for many, and an unofficial “handbook” for municipal leaders.
Tools
Our major tools include Leadership Development, Community Evaluation Reports and a Community Assessment Tool.
Planning
Our planning services include: Economic Development Strategy, Strategic Plan Development and a Community Wide Plan.
Blogs
Our blog posts share ideas that we believe will assist communities. We also provide syndicated articles for publications through our Columns website.

Book
13 Ways to Kill Your Community
Doug Griffiths, MBA