Board Leadership Training Accelerator includes four days of immersive leadership development sessions. Participants are required to attend all scheduled sessions to ensure a cohesive learning experience.

Program Launch: Participants are introduced to essential tools and frameworks to support their understanding of leadership in the nonprofit sector. Learn about the unique landscape of nonprofits in California, and the intersections of board service with real-world leadership skills.

Board Fundamentals: Participants gain real-world knowledge and practical frameworks to effectively support and advance nonprofit missions. Deepen understanding of board work and responsibilities:

• board ethics, compliance, oversight, and governance

• advocacy and community engagement

• fundraising, development, and financial management

• succession and strategic planning, and more. 

Aligning Purpose and Values: Learn best practices to become an effective advocate and strategies to align board activities with the nonprofit’s mission and values — in service of supporting a strong, dynamic organization.

Collaborative, Impactful Service: Learn and practice strategies for effective collaboration, understanding group dynamics and the board’s role in addressing common challenges and opportunities. Gain essential tools to respond well to organizational challenges through adaptive leadership practices and inquiry-based decision-making.

Launch your nonprofit Board service; gain access to nonprofit board decision makers and exposure to an array of board service opportunities. Emerge with a Personal Board Profile highlighting your capacity for service and impact

Become an effective nonprofit board member through inquiry-based decision-making, adaptive leadership practices, and tools for advancing community advocacy and mission-oriented change. Gain knowledge of board governance best practices, collaboration skills, and strategies for navigating nonprofit challenges.

Grow a robust network of nonprofit leaders and change makers, and build meaningful relationships with other service-minded professionals in the region. Join Coro’s 15,000-strong network of remarkable leaders.

At Coro, the learning doesn’t stop when your program ends. Coro alumni gain access to:

• Alumni-only continuing education sessions.

• Networking events with key decision-makers working to shape the spirit and integrity of our region.

• Coro Classifieds, an alumni-only job board.

• A Credly by Pearson™ digital badge showcasing your credentials.

• Alumni-only digital networking platforms to exchange resources and collaborate with other alumni.

• a 15% tuition discount toward Coro programming in Executive Leadership Network, Lead LA or Women in Leadership in order to further expand their networks, skills, and knowledge.*

* application and selection required; discount valid for two years following BLTA participation.

Explore the Program Benefits Guide to learn more.

For decades, Coro leaders have made their way to influential positions in business, public service, and as advocates on behalf of our country’s most pressing issues. Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and worldviews in our programs. 

Ideal candidates…

• live or work in the Greater Los Angeles Region.

• are eager to broaden their community impact and advance mission-driven nonprofits.

• are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.

• are looking to expand their professional network.

• commit to meeting for the scheduled sessions.

There’s nothing like the Coro approach. Coro helps people deepen their innate leadership skills, giving them the tools and a lifelong network to activate tangible change. 

It’s not just about finding the right solutions; Coro training is uniquely focused on helping leaders ask the right questions. It’s about equipping leaders to relate across differences rather than simply reacting to them. Coro leaders intentionally engage and collaborate with others across identities, ideologies, sectors, and generations. Participants should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and in personal reflection.

Coro views leadership as an active practice that requires hands-on experiential learning. Participants are expected to be engaged, mindful, and fully present, minimizing external distractions to maximize their growth and contribution to the cohort.

Coro leaders learn to move from judgment to curiosity, navigate ambiguity, sit in discomfort, and embrace empathy and vulnerability as essential leadership practices, critical for unleashing learning, and building authentic connections. Participants must be willing to embrace vulnerability to foster a psychologically safe environment — a necessary precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration.

Program Cost

Tuition is $2,950 (subsidized from $6,500 by our generous donors).

Employer Assistance

Coro recommends applicants engage their employer about potential support as part of their organization’s social responsibility initiatives. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide to support this conversation with your employer.

Tuition Discounts

If financial limitations are an obstacle to participation, please contact Carson Bruno, Vice President of Growth, at carson@corola.org to inquire about need-based discounts.