Welcome to CPL Communities

Welcome to CPL Communities & CPL Membership

We’re so glad you’re here! Center for Purposeful Leadership is a global community 501c3 non-profit supporting heart-based, purposeful leadership, where we create spaces of Welcome, Safety, and Belonging*.

Become a member, invest in an awesome community. Join now to connect with members of Center for Purposeful Leadership around the world!

*credit to Kelly Chatman, Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement

You’ll find programs, resources, and connections to help renew your courage, focus on what matters, and renew to keep showing up for yourself, others, and the causes you care about. You will find spaces of Welcome, Safety, and Belonging.

Recently, I made a life changing decision. I was invited to attend the weekly Zoom session of “The Hearth” presented by the Center for Purposeful Leadership.  This humanly-designed, divinely-facilitated, interactive, and heart-centered event made me feel welcome from the very outset.  The Hearth has become a wonderful way to start my week– especially in today’s challenging environment.  But that’s not all CPL offers, of course….

CPL Member

  • Your ongoing investment as an Community Builder brings meaning and value to you and the vital work you do through:

    • The ability to engage/network with the Community Builders community, individually & collectively.

    • Loads of personal and professional learning and growth opportunities to help you stay centered and continue evolving as a purposeful leader and individual.

    • Ability to integrate CPL intellectual property and resources into your work to have a deeper impact for the clients, communities, and organizations you serve.

    • Powerful connection and collaboration opportunities with other thought leaders and change agents globally.

    • Special events and gifts throughout the year, as we continue to roll out new programs, resources and support.

    • The opportunity to be part of a meaningful legacy as we cultivate widescale, positive transformation during this critical time in human history.

  • Intergenerational, cross-discipline, intercultural.

    For individual contributors and organizational allies.

    For change agents, fire-sparkers, innovators, collaborators, thought leaders.

    For people in transition, people looking for an intentional network.

    For young change-makers ready to grow your impact within a community ready to support you.

    For elders wanting to continue to make a difference, create positive impact for future generations.

A learning community, practicing giving, receiving and growing together. Become a member, invest in an awesome community.

Since 1995, CPL has worked globally with courageous, curious, spirited, change leaders, who are dedicated to creating a world that works for all.

Connect with members of Center for Purposeful Leadership around the world!

What to look for?

  • Meet fellow change agents.

  • Deepen friendships and collaborations.

  • Explore new ways of thinking and being.

  • Be inspired by an awesome community.

Regardless of what membership level you select, every membership payment option affords you the same access and opportunities. Your membership fee is an investment that helps sustain the tools and resources to nurture equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and engaged communities.

Membership includes

Membership Options

SUPPORTER

Graphic for the $10 a month or the $100 a year membership plan

SUSTAINER

Graphic for the $30 a month or the $345 a year membership plan

BUILDER

Graphic for the $60 a month or the $680 a year membership plan

Regardless of what membership level you select, every membership payment option affords you the same access and opportunities. Your membership fee is an investment that helps sustain the tools and resources to nurture equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and engaged communities.

More about your Membership

  • Essential Conversations (1x/month)
    (Since March 2020) Essential conversations focus on the nature of purposeful leadership with Conversation Starters like Meg Wheatley, Peter Block, Richard Leider, Juanita Brown, Raj Sisodia, Juana Bordas, and more. In a disruptive, VUCA world, acting from purpose is the stabilizing force that creates the ability to focus on what matters, and engage to innovate and lead. 

  • Community Hearth (weekly)
    Set Intention, Deepen Relationships, Practice Convening. Monthly themes guide a weekly community conversation. and practice space to learn and activate the Principles of Convening for Welcome, Belonging, Collective Wisdom, Stewardship, Community. 

  • Essential Conversations & Hearth Recordings (on-demand)
    Four years of amazing conversation: this archival treasure is a key member benefit. Access recordings of over 240 conversations at your leisure.

  • CPL Learning Lab & Resource Library (on-demand)
    The coolest thing ever! Member-only content includes a library of resources of all-things Art of Convening and Purposeful Leadership collected over decades of CPL life. Access and explore foundational resources like AoC Principles, 9 Aspect Videos, Shining a Light, and more.

  • “Meeting with Purpose” Self-paced program (on-demand)
    Empowering Engagement: Purposeful Meetings, Powerful Outcomes. A Self-Guided Course in the Art of Convening: 9 Steps to Collaboration. 

  • CPLC Connect (1-2x/month)
    "Office Hours" with Patricia Neal, Executive Director, Center for Purposeful Leadership. Learn more about CPL and CPL Communities. Bring your questions, enjoy meeting and connecting with fellow members.

  • Guest Mentor Sessions (Quarterly)
    Thought leaders and member leaders bring a topical conversation.

  • Special Member Opportunities, i.e. new book releases, book groups. 
    Our community has many authors, thought leaders, and initiatives!

Members are asked to contribute, participate, and actively build community through events, programs, discussions, and conversations. This is an opportunity to give and grow in collaborative community, grounded in the principles and practices of The Art of Convening. 

Together, we explore the leadership behaviors and practices that support you in the impact you want to have while supporting the CPL Vision of a just, inclusive, interconnected world—a world that works for all. 

Your ongoing investment as an CPL Community Member brings meaning and value to you and the vital work you do through:

  • Engage/network with the Community Builders community, individually & collectively.

  • Personal and professional learning and growth opportunities to help you stay centered and continue evolving as a purposeful leader and individual. 

  • Integrate CPL intellectual property and resources into your work to have a deeper impact for the clients, communities, and organizations you serve.  

  • Powerful connection and collaboration opportunities with other thought leaders and change agents globally.

  • Special events and gifts throughout the year, as we continue to roll out new programs, resources and support.

  • The opportunity to be part of a meaningful legacy as we cultivate widescale, positive transformation during this critical time in human history.

Our Vision: A just, inclusive, and interconnected world—a world that works for all.

Our Mission: Grounded in Art of Convening principles and practices, we cultivate and inspire purposeful leaders who foster thriving cultures of trust, inclusion, and collaboration for sustainable, collective impact.

The power of human connection is the key to our collective future. This is our calling, our mutual purpose: to enhance the power of every engagement by bringing everyone’s voice and wisdom to a positive outcome. This is the foundation of collective impact.

CPL Members are asked to contribute and participate actively through events, programs, discussions, and conversations outlined below. 

Together, we will explore the leadership behaviors and practices that support you in the impact you want to have while supporting the CPL Vision of a just, inclusive, interconnected world—a world that works for all.