Climate Resilience Leadership Network includes 60 hours of immersive professional development using Coro’s proprietary curriculum. Participants convene over 10 sessions from February to June.

Opening Retreat: Fosters self-reflection and deep thinking, setting the stage for Coro’s approach to learning. Participants are introduced to essential tools and frameworks that form the foundation of their immersive experience. 

Leadership Forums: Facilitated leadership development sessions focused on living infrastructure, Los Angeles as a living system, place-sourced practices, public narrative frameworks, regenerative approaches, and more. The forums contextualize learning through impact-based case studies, and evolve your capacity for change leadership. 

Cohort Project: Cohort-led exploration of climate challenges to stretch your leadership development, leverage the peer learning environment, and lean into impact. Participants work in small teams to design and lead an exploration of an issue facing climate professionals. Participants take ownership of the learning process and deepen their understanding of critical issues related to climate resilience.

Closing Symposium: A post-program forum that reunites the cohort for guided reflection and mutual support after a period of real-world, practical and theoretical application of learning. This mandatory gathering offers a structured space to share insights, discuss challenges, and solidify the growth achieved throughout the program.

Exposure to diverse perspectives on climate policy, advocacy, environmental justice, and land management and transformation.

Utilize the Living Infrastructure Field Kit to envision and plan place-based community regeneration that integrates meaningful community engagement. 

Deepen your understanding of complex, systematic climate resilience challenges, while engaging in thought partnership with the cohort and external stakeholders to create space for opportunities and solutions to emerge.

Expand your professional network to include a community of climate policy, advocacy, and community-based change makers eager to collaborate with and support one another.

Increase your capacity to nurture your potential in service of whole-systems solutions.

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

• Alumni-only continuing education sessions.

• Networking events with 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 Coro credentials.

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

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…

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

• have direct experience in climate resilience advocacy, climate change action, environmental protection and justice, clean energy transition, community development, water solutions, land management and conservation, or related fields.

• are eager to explore ways to build a climate resilient Los Angeles.

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

• believe that addressing climate change and cultivating ecological resilience requires cross-sector collaboration.

• 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 $350 (subsidized from $9,500 by our generous sponsors).

Stipends

Thanks to the generous support of ARLA, Coro offers need-based stipends up to $1,000 per participant 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. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide to guide your conversation.