25 May, 2020

CASE STUDY | Guelph's Community Plan: Embracing a Year of Listening

By Lisa Attygalle

A Community Plan is a comprehensive, long-term planning process designed to set a broad vision and strategic direction for an entire community. Over the past three years, the City of Guelph has undertaken the development of a Community Plan where the process was truly authentic, emergent, community-owned, integrated across City departments and community partners, and anchored in utility.
Lisa Attygalle

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Lisa Attygalle

In her role at Tamarack, Lisa works with cities and organizations to improve the way they engage with their communities. Over the last seven years, her work has focused on creating engagement strategies for municipalities and organizations, integrated communications planning, and the use of technology and creativity for engagement. Lisa constantly advocates for simplicity in infrastructure, frameworks, and design and loves applying the principles of marketing, advertising, loyalty, and user experience to community initiatives.

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