HHLN meets about twice per month from February to June leveraging Coro’s signature immersive, hands-on learning. HHLN is broken into three components.

• 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.

• Focus Days – Cohort-led explorations of a housing or houselessness challenge to stretch participants’ professional  and leadership development in a real-time setting while enhancing their housing and houselessness knowledge. 

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Program Outcomes

1. Gain time-tested management and leadership skills to enhance individual, team, and organizational capacity to ignite action and impact.

2. Expand cross-sector professional networks with other housing and houselessness leaders and experts to develop opportunities for collaborative solutions-seeking. 

3. Deepen knowledge of the housing and houselessness challenges and solutions (and the systems in which those challenges and solutions lie).

Curricular Components

• Adaptive leadership

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging (DEIB) and anti-racism

• Effective communication and advocacy

• Effective inquiry and critical thinking

• Giving and receiving feedback

• Human centered design

• Interpersonal Leadership Styles™

• Managing diverse teams

• Negotiations

• Project management tools

• Public narrative frameworks

• Self-awareness and self-management tools

• Stakeholder analysis and coalition building

Coro values the representation of diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views; as such, HHLN cohorts reflect the rich diversity of the region. 

Ideal HHLN candidates…

• work, live, or serve communities in Los Angeles County

• have the support they need from their organizations to fully commit to participating

• view houselessness and housing as a diverse field requiring communication and collaboration with other stakeholders in and outside of the field

• hold an interest in innovating solutions to Los Angeles County’s houselessness and housing challenges

• have at least 5 years of professional experience working across and within the issues of housing and homelessness

Multi-Perspective

Be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and in personal reflection. 

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. 

Embracing Ambiguity

A signature characteristic of Coro programming is generating intentional ambiguity, which works to highlight your 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. 

Enhances Work

• Provides tools for tackling housing and houselessness 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 self-awareness in leadership

• Promote change with human centered design, adaptive leadership frameworks, and coalition building

Deepens Knowledge

• Explore complex housing and houselessness issues facing Los Angeles County, putting tools gained to practice

• Gain understanding on collaborative, cross-sector approaches to addressing these issues

• 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 HHLN alumni

• 96% of recent HHLN alumni agree that their participation expanded their professional network

Explore the Program Benefits Guide

Program Cost

Tuition is $350 (subsidized from $7,500 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 our sponsors, 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