1/31 Essential Conversation:

A New Model for Leadership: Purposeful Leader as Convener

Are you ready to create more safe and generative spaces for collaboration, learning and growth?

If there was ever a time to step up to make a meaningful and lasting impact in our own lives and those around us, the time is now!

A purposeful leader is anyone who is willing to engage others in a positive common way forward. Let's reimagine together in the Essential Conversation how and why you are or can be that leader in your life, family, community, and organization.

Craig & Kim, along with several current participants in the Mastering Convening forum, will share their diverse stories of what it means to them to be a purposeful leader in these times.

“Leadership does not reside in a person but in an arena that can be occupied by offerings of specific wisdom to the needs of the community. So leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual. The individual’s responsibility is to be ready and willing to show up, serve, and then, most importantly, stand back. Leadership for this era is not a role or a set of traits; it’s a zone of interrelational process. Step in, step out.” — Nora Bateson

Are you ready and willing to engage your family, community and/or organization in an essential conversation that will create a positive impact for the sake of a common future together? You are the leader you have come to find.

In preparation for this Essential Conversation consider these questions:

  • Is your life, and activities with others, making an impact for the greater good?

  • If so, how? If not, imagine how it could.

  • Who are the people in your life and work you trust the most?

Monday, January 31, 2022
8:00 AM 9:30 AM
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Meet the Conversation Starters

Kimberly Kristenson-Lee
CPL Faculty – Whole Person Leadership for Women
MAIR, ACC, Certified Convening Leader TM, President-elect, ICF Sacramento Charter Chapter

My emphasis is on leadership learning and development through action learning.  The most reliable way to grow as a leader is through a mix of action learning, relationship-based learning, and reflection. By practicing with the convening framework, and trusting the coaching process, it is within your reach to become, to experience, and to achieve far more impact than you know to be possible today.

I am excited to be a member of the growing team at Center for Purposeful Leadership.  We are the people who put people together for purpose!  I am also the founder of Labyrinth Leadership Group, a for-cause organization helping leaders navigate challenges, disruptions, and transitions. I have 30 years' management experience in the global energy industry and as a business owner. I am faculty on Whole Person Leadership for Women and specialize in unpacking unique challenges facing women leaders.  

Craig Neal
Author of The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations
Art of Convening™ Originator and Lead Trainer

Craig Neal celebrates life as a passionate change leader, publishing executive, author, trainer and executive coach to those called to create profound contributions in their life and work. Craig’s life forever changed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in August of 1963, setting him on his current life path.

As an executive coach for over 25 years, Craig assists leaders to integrate their inner calling with maximizing their organizational leadership potential. In 1995, Craig and Patricia co-founded Heartland Institute, now CPL.