Developing stewards to nurture resilient communities
Climate Resilience Leadership Network (CRLN) fosters robust leadership development designed to awaken, build, and grow stewards needed to create and nurture healthier and more resilient communities in the Los Angeles region.
Cross-sector and cross-discipline climate and environmental professionals engage with Coro’s unique blend of immersive facilitated programming, peer-to-peer learning, and community and issue-area experts knowledge sharing to expand their capacity for sustainable change and impact in Los Angeles.
CRLN has been designed in collaboration with Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles (ARLA) and the Regenesis Institute.
CRLN meets for two-day paired sessions about once per month from February to June, leveraging Coro’s signature immersive, hands-on learning. The Program is broken into four components.
Across 80 hours of professional development training, the program will meet February to June for the Opening Retreat and Leadership Forums, followed by a Closing Symposium in September. The Program is broken into four structural components, each targeted on accelerating systemic shifts towards climate resilience.
Opening Retreat – Mandatory multi-day, off-site weekend retreat laying key skills-building and cohort-building foundations.
Leadership Forums – Facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions featuring Coro’s time-tested and unique curriculum and a range of climate-specific frameworks to draw parallels between leadership capacity-building and regional climate resiliency.
Cohort Project – Cohort-led exploration of a climate or environment challenge or topic facing the Los Angeles region to stretch participants’ professional and leadership development in a real-time setting, leveraging the diverse cross-sector peer learning environment and leaning into regional and community impact.
Closing Symposium – A mandatory post-program forum for facilitated reflection and cohort support after a period of real-world, practical and theoretical application of learning.
View the Program Calendar & Attendance Policy
Program Outcomes
Gain time-tested climate resiliency, management and leadership skills to enhance individual, team, and organizational capacity to ignite action and impact within their teams, organizations, and communities.
Expand cross-sector professional networks with other climate and environmental leaders and experts to develop opportunities for collaborative solutions-seeking.
Deepen knowledge of the climate resilience challenges and solutions (and the systems in which those challenges and solutions lie).
Curricular Components
Adaptive leadership & systems thinking
Coalition building & community engagement
Effective communication, storytelling, and advocacy
Effective inquiry and critical thinking
Equity, inclusion, belonging
Group dynamics
Living infrastructure concepts
Los angeles as a living system
Negotiations and managing conflict
Place-sourced practices
Public narrative frameworks
Regenerative approaches
Stakeholder and power analysis
Self-awareness and self-management tools
Coro values the representation of diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views; as such, CRLN cohorts reflect the rich diversity of the region.
Ideal CRLN candidates…
work, live, or serve communities in Los Angeles County
have formal or informal experience within the broad range of climate and environment
have a demonstrated passion for or commitment to creating innovative solutions to building a climate resilient Los Angeles
hold an interest in environmental infrastructure, climate resilience, environmental justice and other related challenges
view climate change and environmental protection as a cross-sectoral challenge, requiring multi-sectoral communication and collaboration
have the support they need to fully meet program commitments
Multi-Perspective
Be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and in personal reflection.
Embracing Ambiguity
A signature characteristic of Coro programming is intentionally using ambiguity as a way to highlight your leadership defaults, ignite your learning, and support you to lead and manage through uncertainty.
Learn by Doing
Coro sees leadership as a practice. Participants should be prepared to engage in hands-on experiential learning. As the sessions are interactive and linked, it’s essential for participants to steer clear of external distractions. This means refraining from arriving late or leaving early, using phones, checking emails, or engaging in other activities during the program sessions.
Vulnerability and Psychological Safety
Coro views vulnerability as a critical leadership attribute essential for unleashing learning, building authentic and meaningful connection, and for holding spaces that are psychologically safe as a precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration. Participants should be ready to contribute to building a psychological safe cohort environment.
Enhances Work
Provides tools for tackling climate change and environmental resiliency adaptive challenges
Builds supportive cross-sector network of peers to boost confidence and deepen growth
Facilitates access to regional decision makers
Develops Skills
Foster professional advocacy for enhanced effectiveness
Develop leadership & climate resiliency self-awareness
Promote change with adaptive leadership frameworks, coalition building, and place-sourced practices
Deepens Knowledge
Explore complex environmental issues facing LA County, putting tools gained to practice
Prepare Impact Projects to develop collaborative approaches to addressing climate challenges
Connect with and learn from multi-sector and issue-area experts
Grows Networks
Join the global Coro alumni community, a cross-sector and cross-discipline community of over 15,000 leaders
Build community with the growing and dynamic CRLN alumni
100% of recent CRLN alumni agree that their participation expanded their professional network
Program Cost
Tuition is $350 (subsidized from $9,500 thanks to the generous support of our sponsors). The tuition covers all expert facilitated learning, materials, and instruction, and all meals during program sessions.
Participants may incur additional incidental expenses due to their participation, such as transportation, parking, and additional meals outside of those provided by Coro.
Participant Stipends
Thanks to the generous support of ARLA, Coro is able to offer a limited number of need-based stipends to offset expenses related to their participation. Applicants seeking a stipend must complete the relevant questions at the time of application.
Employer Assistance
Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. We encourage you to speak with your employer about potential support utilizing the Program Benefits Guide to guide your conversation.
Coro’s diverse alumni community – totaling over 15,000 – spans sectors, perspectives, and geographies. At Coro, the learning doesn’t stop when your program ends. Coro alumni status gives you access to:
The Resources – Coro alumni have access to alumni-only continuing education sessions to refresh, revisit, and reinvigorate their learning alongside other Coro alums, and an alumni-only digital jobs, events, and volunteering board (Coro Classifieds).
The Exposure – Coro brings together a cross-sector network of decision-makers to share perspectives and resources in a shared commitment to the future of our region. Many of these events are exclusive to Coro alumni. Joining the Coro network ensures that partners stay connected with key decision makers.
The Credentials – Coro has partnered with Credly by Pearson™ to issue and maintain digital badges, in addition to your Coro certificate of completion. As authenticated, certified, and individually-awarded badges, you’ll be able to showcase your unique capacity-building in real-time with your network.
The Network – Coro alums are a dynamic group, eager to engage with each other in meaningful and collaborative ways. Coro alums have access to two alumni-only digital networking platforms: Coro Commons powered by AlumniFire and a Coro alumni LinkedIn group
Arlington Garden in Pasadena
Buro Happold
BayWa r.e. Americas
CityFi
City of Burbank, Water and Power
City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks
Climate Resolve
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell (District 2)
Crescenta Valley Water District
Estolano Advisors
Gensler
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
MorphoStrategies
Resources Legacy Fund
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Southern California Edison
Tataviam Land Conservancy
Television Academy
The Bay Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
University of Southern California Dornsife’s Public Exchange
US Environmental Protection Authority
US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
US Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary
VICUS
Water Replenishment District
Organizations listed do not constitute an endorsement of CRLN or Coro.
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The 2025 cohort application will open in early August. Submit an Interest Form to receive recruitment updates.
Application Guide
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Program Benefits Guide
Program Calendar
Meet the Cohort
Questions? Contact
Carson Bruno
Vice President of Growth
carson@corola.org- Connect with Carson