Welcome to CPL Membership

Lead with purpose. Connect with heart. Create lasting impact.

We’re so glad you’re here! Center for Purposeful Leadership is a global community 501c3 non-profit supporting heart-based, purposeful leadership.

This is more than membership. It’s community-powered leadership. Together, we build a community of learning, a community of practice, building our skills, talents, abilities, and gifts towards the CPL Vision.

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

Join now to connect with members of Center for Purposeful Leadership around the world!

You will find programs, resources, and connections to help focus on what matters and be renewed 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

Recently, I made a life changing decision. I was invited to attend the weekly Zoom session of “The Hearth”.  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 times.  And, CPL offers so much more!

CPL Member

  • Your ongoing investment as an member offers:

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

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

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

    • Special events and gifts throughout the year

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

  • Intergenerational, cross-discipline, intercultural.

    Individual contributors and organizational allies.

    Change agents, fire-sparkers, innovators, collaborators, thought leaders.

    People in transition, people looking for an intentional network.

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

    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.

Your membership donation 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)

  • Community Hearth (weekly)
    Set Intention, Deepen Relationships, Practice Convening.

  • Essential Conversations & Hearth Recordings (on-demand)
    Four years of amazing conversation: this archival treasure is a key member benefit.

  • Member Hub, including the CPL Learning Lab & Resource Library

  • CPL Connect (1-2x/month). With Patricia Neal and CPL Members.

  • “Make Meetings Great” Self-paced program (on-demand). For memberships of at least $20/month. Coming in September

  • Wisdom Circle: for memberships of $1,000 per year or more

  • Special Member Opportunities

Ways To Give

Questions? Contact Patricia Neal at pneal@centerfpl.org

Sustaining Donor: You become a Sustainer with a one-time or monthly donation to Center for Purposeful Leadership.

IRA: Contribute a portion of your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD)*, from your IRA, to Center for Purposeful Leadership.
Longtime member
Ric Hinkie, shares how he chooses to donate to CPL. Click here to view

Matching Donation: Many businesses have programs setup to match donations made by employees. Increase your impactful gift with a matching donation from your employer.

Wisdom Circle Donor: Not only a crucial member of the CPL community, but a part of the “wisdom circle” as a leading individual, business or organization that make generous donations of $1000+ each fiscal year, including receiving special benefits.

Send a check: Send and make a check payable to:

Center for Purposeful Leadership
Attn: Patricia Neal
5115 Excelsior Blvd #315
St. Louis Park, MN 55416

EIN 87-2807338


If aged 72 or older, IRS requires you to take required minimum distributions (RMDs) from your tax-deferred retirement accounts each year by December 31. When donating to CPL directly from your IRA, you can avoid paying income tax on that portion of your RMD.

Center for Purposeful Leadership is a charitable organization registered as a 501(c)(3). Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.


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.
— Kath O'Keefe

Members are asked to contribute, participate, and actively build community to be part of a meaningful legacy as we cultivate widescale, positive transformation during this critical time in human history.

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.