Events & Workshops
Listed are opportunities to experience CEL’s proven leadership approach that is based on research in moral, human, community, and leadership development. We have helped thousands of people in businesses, schools, communities, nonprofit organizations, and government gain the results they are seeking. CEL provides a multitude of offerings to operate more effectively and create cultures worth being in. Inquire on how our tailored programs and services can meet your needs.
"Not only did I enjoy this, but I would recommend it. I will use many of these techniques with my teams. Thank you."
– Workshop Attendee
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Volunteer Manager Peer Learning and Sharing (Virtual)
This is part of the Center for Ethical Leadership’s virtual brown bag lunch series for those who work with volunteers. The purpose is for professional networking and development, share ideas and solutions, develop leadership skills, and make some new friends! Date: Tuesday, January 27th 2026 Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST Cost: Free (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.) |
Alice Fong and Lisa Yeager at Port Townsend
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Lisa Yeager has deep experience in the non-profit sector in volunteer and program management. She was Regional Director for Autism Speaks overseeing walkathons with thousands of walkers and volunteers. She also oversaw 400 volunteers for the Pacific Science Center and hundreds for Catholic Community Center Volunteer Chore Services. This broad experience has given her a depth of knowledge for working with the community and volunteers in the most impactful way. She sees herself as a dream manager helping non-profit organizations and volunteers reach their goals. She is recently retired as Executive Director of the Sno-Valley Senior Center in Carnation, WA. She currently lives with her husband in Port Townsend, WA where she is enjoying being a volunteer herself!
Alice Fong believes and LOVES how volunteerism is a strategy to advance the common good. She was bit by the volunteer bug in the early 90’s and has kept volunteering ever since. Working with volunteers in higher ed, government, nonprofits like the YMCA and hospitals has kept her in these sectors because she cannot imagine working without the passion, dedication, and care volunteers bring! Alice became the first volunteer manager for a growing nonprofit where she developed the infrastructure and policies that are still being used today. When she was at United Way of King County, she reached thousands of nonprofit leaders with ways to better engage volunteers and was on the team that mobilized the state of Washington’s largest volunteer service day, working with hundreds of organizations to engage over 13,000 volunteers on Day of Caring! Since 2018, Alice has led the Center for Ethical Leadership where she inspires and cultivates leaders to advance their part of the common good!
Alice Fong believes and LOVES how volunteerism is a strategy to advance the common good. She was bit by the volunteer bug in the early 90’s and has kept volunteering ever since. Working with volunteers in higher ed, government, nonprofits like the YMCA and hospitals has kept her in these sectors because she cannot imagine working without the passion, dedication, and care volunteers bring! Alice became the first volunteer manager for a growing nonprofit where she developed the infrastructure and policies that are still being used today. When she was at United Way of King County, she reached thousands of nonprofit leaders with ways to better engage volunteers and was on the team that mobilized the state of Washington’s largest volunteer service day, working with hundreds of organizations to engage over 13,000 volunteers on Day of Caring! Since 2018, Alice has led the Center for Ethical Leadership where she inspires and cultivates leaders to advance their part of the common good!
Unique and Creative Ways to Recognize your Volunteers (Virtual)
This is part of the Center for Ethical Leadership’s virtual brown bag lunch series for those who work with volunteers. The purpose is for professional networking and development, share ideas and solutions, develop leadership skills, and make some new friends!
Date: Thursday, March 19th 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST
Cost: Free (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
This is part of the Center for Ethical Leadership’s virtual brown bag lunch series for those who work with volunteers. The purpose is for professional networking and development, share ideas and solutions, develop leadership skills, and make some new friends!
Date: Thursday, March 19th 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST
Cost: Free (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
Making a Case for a Professional Volunteer Manager with the Board (Virtual)
This is part of the Center for Ethical Leadership’s virtual brown bag lunch series for those who work with volunteers. The purpose is for professional networking and development, share ideas and solutions, develop leadership skills, and make some new friends!
Date: Thursday, May 21st 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST
Cost: Free (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
This is part of the Center for Ethical Leadership’s virtual brown bag lunch series for those who work with volunteers. The purpose is for professional networking and development, share ideas and solutions, develop leadership skills, and make some new friends!
Date: Thursday, May 21st 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00pm PST
Cost: Free (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
Leadership Legacy Event: Inviting the "Stranger" to Co-create Sustainable Change
Join us for a beautiful evening at Wisteria Hall Terrace for friendship, inspiration, and updates. Not able to join us, donations are appreciated! There will be an ask to raise funds to support CEL's mission. Event sponsorship from last year. Date: Thursday, August 20th 2026 Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Come for refreshments at 6:30 and program starts at 7pm Ticket: $50 Location: Wisteria Hall Terrace (outdoor event) 2300 Arboretum Drive E. Seattle, WA 98112 |
Dale, Alice, Bill, and Waing Waing at the 2025 Leadership Legacy Event!
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10-month Stewards Cohort
2026-2027 recruitment for Cohort #6 Application The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action. This is a community of practice as to identify and know our values and have the courage and discipline to act on them on behalf of the common good for all. The program meets monthly for ten months and will begin in September 2026. For more information and to apply to this year's cohort ’26-'27, please view the VBL Stewards Application. First review of applicants due on March 15, 2026 @ 11:59pm PST. "I highly recommend CEL's Stewards program to anyone who agrees that pursuit of the common good is a worthwhile leadership endeavor, and who is also motivated to actively engage toward that end." -- Joe Hailey, CEL Volunteer |
Seven Practices of Leadership for the Common Good
"In a world stretched to the limits of viability by divisive "us-them" thinking, we need a worldview founded upon a greater truth: the unity of humankind and the wholeness of the planet."
-- Cover from Sharing the Rock
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Stewards application process includes a $25 application fee, Stewards Application, and a 30 minute interview.
First round of applicants for review in the fall are due on March 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.
Second round is due on July 11th, 2026.
First round of applicants for review in the fall are due on March 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.
Second round is due on July 11th, 2026.
Volunteer Conference - more info to come...
Date: TBD in September
Time: 9am - 2pm PST
Location: Tukwila
Visit our form to share topics you are interested in for the conference and other professional development opportunities.
Date: TBD in September
Time: 9am - 2pm PST
Location: Tukwila
Visit our form to share topics you are interested in for the conference and other professional development opportunities.
Living with Gracious Space Webinar (Virtual)
Date: Friday, October 23rd 2026
Time: 10am-10:45am PST
Cost: $25 (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
When two or more gather, well-meaning people may find themselves in situations of conflict or disagreements. Whether the project is a leadership development program, community initiative, difficult conversation on race, a reorganization, performance appraisal, coaching conversation, new vision, mission or strategic plan, a new team, or mediation – Gracious Space can make the relationships stronger and the work flow more creatively. This session dives deeper into how we invite the stranger and learn in public.
Date: Friday, October 23rd 2026
Time: 10am-10:45am PST
Cost: $25 (Link will be sent with your registration receipt.)
When two or more gather, well-meaning people may find themselves in situations of conflict or disagreements. Whether the project is a leadership development program, community initiative, difficult conversation on race, a reorganization, performance appraisal, coaching conversation, new vision, mission or strategic plan, a new team, or mediation – Gracious Space can make the relationships stronger and the work flow more creatively. This session dives deeper into how we invite the stranger and learn in public.
*We offer scholarships on a sliding scale. Please contact us.
Values-Based Leadership Stewards ProgramWhat does it mean to share the rock? The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action.
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Restorative, Inclusive School Environment Initiative (RISE)The Restorative, Inclusive School Environments (RISE) Initiative seeks to build youth-adult partnerships and community-based collective leadership to create and foster the necessary conditions for all students to succeed.
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Stewards CircleComing Soon!
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