--- title: The Latest | Liz Weaver description: Liz is passionate about the power and potential of communities getting to impact on complex issues. Liz is Tamarack’s former Co-CEO and Director of Learning Centre. In this role, she provided strategic direction to the organization and led many of its key learning activities, including collective impact capacity-building services for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Liz is one of Tamarack's highly regarded trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on a variety of workshop topics, including collaborative governance, leadership, collective impact, community innovation, influencing policy change and social media for impact and engagement. --- [![20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Administration/Tamarack%20Logos/20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png?width=200&height=47&name=20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png "20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange")](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) # The Latest Contribute. 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Liz is Tamarack’s former Co-CEO and Director of Learning Centre. In this role, she provided strategic direction to the organization and led many of its key learning activities, including collective impact capacity-building services for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Liz is one of Tamarack's highly regarded trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on a variety of workshop topics, including collaborative governance, leadership, collective impact, community innovation, influencing policy change and social media for impact and engagement. ### Recent Posts [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Innovative.jpeg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/innovation-in-a-few-easy-steps?hsLang=en-us) ### [Innovation in a Few Easy Steps](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/innovation-in-a-few-easy-steps?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Liz Weaver](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/liz-weaver) on October 13, 2020 Tamarack defines community innovation as “Change, for good, with and within a community. In other words, Community Innovation is a community-championed change with benefits that are meaningful to the community. 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