Welcome to Center for Purposeful Leadership & CPL Communities

Center for Purposeful Leadership is a global community 501c3 non-profit organization supporting heart-based, purposeful leadership.

CPL Communities is the CPL Member platform 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!

We’re so glad you’re here. 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.

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

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.

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.

Grow and accelerate your and our collective impact in this potent community of practice.

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.

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.

What is Convening?

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. This is what Art of Convening centers: human connection through authentic engagement.

An intelligent, proven 9-step methodology and corresponding book called The Art of Convening (AoC), which have been utilized by thousands of members and leaders in hundreds of organizations all over the globe.

Convening is about relationship and a way of being and expressing your purpose. Purposeful leadership is intentional, a continuous process of becoming who all of you are meant to be as a whole person.

Convening is about being in service to something greater than yourself and of benefit to the whole. Because you are always in relationship, you are never not convening.

Take a positive step forward in your leadership today: get your copy of the Art of Convening book and join us to make your greatest purpose and potential become reality. Contact us today.

What is Purpose?

Purpose is a belief that your life matters and that you make a difference. It is a sense of being guided by meaningful values and goals. Purposeful Leadership is a lifelong intentional process of becoming who all of you are meant to be as a whole person in relationship with others. A sense of purpose is the key to thriving leadership, meaningful work, and successful collaboration. Purpose is the stabilizing force to focus on what really matters, and engage to innovate and lead.

Community Builders 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.

Key Resource Partners

CPL THEORY OF CHANGE

Peter Block says he “would like to have a place where ideas matter. Where doubts are valued. Where uncertainty is embraced.”

"What if, instead thinking of a theory of change being produced from an identified preferred goal or outcome, the focus instead was placed on the way in which a system becomes ready for undetermined change?

Can unforeseen ready-ness be nourished? While linear managing or controlling of the direction of change may appear desirable, tending to how the system becomes ready allows for pathways of possibility previously unimagined."
-Nora Bateson

Welcome to CPL Communities