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Empowering leaders with the skills, knowledge, and network to drive transformative change

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About Coro

Coro’s ethos is grounded in the belief that impactful change emerges from leaders coming together to innovate and pioneer solutions. Coro empowers individuals with essential skills, knowledge, and networks needed to drive transformative change. Graduates gain a robust understanding of global dynamics, leadership acumen to effect positive change, and a supportive peer network to amplify their impact. They emerge as civic leaders adept at navigating decision-making across differences.

Our Programs

Coro training is for everyone – from ambitious high school students to seasoned executives. Programs are meticulously crafted to cultivate effective, ethical leaders who excel in navigating diverse collaborations across boundaries to address our society’s most entrenched challenges.

Coro X

Through Coro X, Coro works with organizations and teams to deliver customized training and workshops focused on advancing organizational goals. Coro X promotes both individual and group growth, empowering teams to enhance their skills and maximize effectiveness. Leveraging interactive facilitation and experiential learning techniques, Coro X mirrors Coro’s cohort-based program approach. By working closely with organizations to understand their needs and desired outcomes, Coro X delivers single or multi-session training experiences.

Coro Voices

Coro training is transformative. Hear about it firsthand.

Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell

Los Angeles County Supervisor

Fellows Program in Public Affairs, 1987

“I owe much of who I am and how I got here to the enriching experience that Coro–and my fellow Coro Fellows–gave me. As a Coro Fellow, I learned the value of being an effective leader using critical thinking skills. I benefited from being exposed to real-life situations and diverse schools of thought. I also experienced amazing personal growth, and an opportunity to meet new friends & colleagues that have helped carry me through life’s journey.”

Jacqueline Rangel

Director of Digital Health and Consumer Engagement, AltaMed

Women in Leadership, 2020

“The tools and training provided by Women in Leadership allowed me to continuously fill my confidence cup and push through the doubts, believing that all I needed was within me already. I give WIL all the credit for disrupting me, opening my eyes to potential within me, and giving me the wings needed to take the leap.”

Senator Alex Padilla

United States Senator

Fellows Program in Public Affairs, 1995

“We need programs like Coro to uplift new generations of diverse leaders, and equip them with the skills and resources to take on our toughest challenges… [Coro is] a great blueprint for how to move our city, our region, and our society forward…It’s helped me immensely throughout my political career…”

Louis Spanias

Senior Sustainability Manager, Cumming Group

Lead LA, 2023

“The Coro Lead LA program was a reinvigorating experience for me. I found Coro’s leadership framework and curriculum to be incredibly useful, offering me practices that I could apply in my profession as well as approaches to tackling interpersonal and complex problems…”

Elle Balle

Student, Duke University

Youth Fellows Program, 2022

“Coro helped me become a leader in my everyday life… before I began the program, I often sat on the sidelines… Learning to look at myself from an outside perspective is one of the greatest gifts Coro gave me.”

Billie Greer

Retired, Public Policy Advisor

Fellows Program in Public Affairs, 1976

“Coro shook me up, forced me to re-examine how I see the world and relate to it, and opened my eyes as to how to lead effectively against a backdrop of uncertainty, increasing complexity and new players.”