

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Community Leadership Summit
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Building Trust. Building Community.

Join us for Innovia's Community Leadership Summit on March 16-17 — a two-day experience designed to bring people from Eastern Washington and North Idaho together to build stronger, more connected communities.

Together, we'll hear from national and local speakers and engage in interactive learning sessions that bring us together — across differences — to discover common interests and make more possible for our region.

You can look forward to:

✅ Inspiring keynote speakers focused on building trust and resilient communities

✅ Interactive sessions on the art of storytelling to bridge divides

✅ Conversations on investing in youth for long-term social and economic success.

✅ Insights into Innovia’s new Civic Engagement grants that bring neighbors together for shared meals and collaborative visioning

And keynotes from renown authors, community-building experts, and thought leaders:

💠 Maryam Banikarim | Host of The Messy Parts Podcast, Co-Founder of The Longest Table, and Chair of WSJ Institutes CMO Council

💠 John Noltner | Author and Founder and Executive Director of A Peace of My Mind

💠 Catherine Ettman | Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

💠 Mara Tieken | Author and Professor of Education at Bates College

💠 Terry Kyllo | Author and Executive Director of Path to Understanding: Gathering Neighbors, Growing Trust

Register today at innovia.org/summit!

Presenting sponsor: STCU

Speaker sponsor: Avista

Book sponsor: Cowles Company
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/spokane/community-leadership-summit/200029799656409
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Business, health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**:
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://innovia.org/summit/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=spokane-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Spokane
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Spokane Convention Center
- **lat**: 47.660929862628
- **long**: -117.41364258816
- **full address**: Spokane Convention Center, 322 N Spokane Falls Ct,Spokane,WA,United States
- **location**: Spokane Convention Center

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Innovia Foundation (https://allevents.in/org/innovia-foundation/16470722)

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## FAQs

- **Q:** When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am (-07:00)
- **Q:** Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Spokane Convention Center, 322 N Spokane Falls Ct,Spokane,WA,United States
- **Q:** Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Innovia Foundation
- **Q:** What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Business, health-wellness
- **Q:** Where can I find ticket details about Community Leadership Summit ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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