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.

• 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

Explore the Program Benefits Guide

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