Coro Is Your Organization’s Professional Development Partner

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Since 1947, Coro has provided robust, impactful, and acclaimed professional, leadership, and management development programs for emerging and established leaders looking to enhance their capacity for impact within their teams, organizations, and communities. With more than 11,000 Coro graduates across the country and world, Coro alumni can be found in all sectors, industries, and roles.

Coro’s part-time signature in-house programs provide professionals with valuable leadership and management training, empowering leaders to navigate change and uncertainty with skill and vision, and to tackle challenges with time tested leadership and management tools and frameworks. These programs include Executive Leadership Network (ELN), Lead LA, Women in Leadership (WIL), Workforce Leadership Network (WLN), and Homelessness & Housing Leadership Network (HHLN).

Learn:

how investing in your employees through a Coro program will benefit your organization
what your employees can look forward to in a Coro program
the different programs Coro offers and the specific populations they serve
how Coro X’s custom-designed programs can strengthen your team and organization
how to receive a tuition discount for Coro’s Lead Programs
organizations that have sponsored their team members to join a Coro program

Invest in High-Performing Employees

As an employer, supporting your team’s professional, leadership, and management growth and development is critical to the success of your organization, with numerous benefits:

Loyalty: Demonstrates your commitment to your team members’ professional growth, deepening their loyalty and leading to higher productivity.
Retention and Succession: Employee development is a long-term investment that can help retain and grow your talent. It is also a critical element of succession planning for employees who should be retained and prepared for leadership roles within the organization.
Profitability and Impact: Employees who participate in professional development are more productive and employee development boosts profitability and organizational impact.
Capacity: Increases the skills of employees in critical positions that can be incorporated departmentally and instilled within their teams, and across organizational verticals.

Coro Programs’ Core Curriculum Includes:

Adaptive Leadership, Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Interpersonal Leadership Styles™
Managing Diverse Teams
Network Building
Mindfulness Practices
Self-Awareness
Self-Management Tools Systems Thinking & Stakeholder Analysis
Confidential peer coaching circles to work on real-time leadership challenges, identify areas for growth, and expand capacity to lead change.

Program	Program Overview	Who Should Participate	Additional Skills Training	Logistics
Women in Leadership (WIL)	WIL is a part-time leadership development program that supports the leadership development of women, establishing a pipeline for professional advancement, and creating a cross-sector network of women who support each other’s leadership development.	For ascending or established women professionals. Participants should live/work in Southern California and have a minimum of 7 years of work experience.	Negotiation Intersectionality and Implicit Bias	Ten sessions Primarily in-person Tuition is $3,500 Delivered twice a year, in Fall and Spring. Five two-day sessions over the span of five months.
Executive Leadership Network (ELN)	ELN is a part-time leadership development program, convening executive leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors for an intensive, part-time leadership training collaborative.	ELN is for leaders who are in the C-Suite or at the VP level. Participants should live/work in Southern California.	Resilient leadership Leadership Versatility Index	Six, full-day seminar sessions Primarily in-person Tuition is $8,500 Delivered once a year in the Spring Participants meet once a month all day over the span of six months
Lead LA	Lead LA is a nine-month leadership development program for Los Angeles-based professionals looking to strengthen their leadership and management skills and develop meaningful networks to expand their capacity for impact within their teams, organizations, and communities.	Ascending and established professionals who live and/or work in Greater Los Angeles and have a minimum of 5 to 7 years of professional experience.	Public Narrative Frameworks Project Management Tools	22 sessions Primarily in-person Tuition is $4,950* Extra single-room accommodations fee of $450 for Opening Retreat Delivered once a year, the program runs from September to May
Workforce Leadership Network (WLN)	WLN is a part-time, four-month leadership development program for direct-service leaders, system leaders, and thought leaders across the field of workforce development.	Professionals with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the workforce development arena. Participants should live/work in Southern California.	Human-Centered Design Public Narrative Frameworks Project Management Tools	9 sessions Primarily in-person Participants meet twice a month for all-day sessions Tuition is $250 Delivered once a year, the program runs each spring from February through May
Housing and Homelessness Network (HHLN)	HHLN is a part-time, four-month leadership development program for cross-sectoral houselessness service providers and housing professionals.	Professionals with a minimum of 5 years experience in the houselessness service provider, housing development, homelessness and housing policy and advocacy, and/or other houselessness and housing stakeholder space. Participants should live/work in Southern California	Human-Centered Design Public Narrative Frameworks Project Management Tools Systems Thinking	10 sessions in-person Tuition is $250 Delivered once a year, the program runs from February through May

Consider Coro as Your Professional Development Provider

Coro’s custom-design programs through our Coro X practice enable us to meet your specific professional, management, and leadership development needs. Whether you need team-building or skills-building for a single staff retreat or a professional development collaboration that spans multiple sessions, Coro is your partner to drive impact within your team and organization. Some of our Coro X partners have included Capital Group, Center City Association of Los Angeles, Cedar Sinai, City of Costa Mesa, Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., Los Angeles Unified School District, Orange County LAFCO, and University of California, Los Angeles, among others.

Connect with Coro to Learn More About How Our Programs and Services can Meet your Organization’s Professional and Leadership Development Needs

Organizational Commitment Benefit Program

Many of Coro’s program participants secured full or partial financial assistance from their employers as part of their organization’s professional development efforts. Coro has also developed the Organizational Commitment Benefit Program*:

15% tuition discount if two (2) or more individuals from the same organization apply and participate.*
10% tuition discount if someone from a previous program year participating organization applies and participates.*

*The Organizational Commitment Benefit Program only applies to the Lead Programs (Lead LA + Lead SoCal).

Partner Organizations

Organizations that have financially supported (partially or fully) their team members participating in Coro programs in the past include:

1st Century Bank
A Place Called Home
ACLU Southern California
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
Annenberg Foundation
Art Center College of Design
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles
Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs
Bank of America
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Better World Group
Block by Block
Buchalter
Buro Happold Engineering
California Resources Corporation
Cause Communications
Cedars Sinai
Center for Policing Equity
Century Affordable Development, Inc
Cerrell Associates
Chapman University
Charger Help Inc.
Children’s Institute
CHOC Foundation
Chrysalis
City of Glendale
City of Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering
City of Los Angeles, Controller’s Office
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works
City of Los Angeles, Council District 5
City of Los Angeles, Council District 10
City of Los Angeles, Council District 15
City of Pico Rivera
City of Santa Monica
Civic Innovation Lab
Clean Power Alliance
Community Coalition
Community Partners
Comp Sci High
Concordia
County of Los Angeles
Curt Pringle and Associates
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc.
Downtown Women’s Center
Eastern Municipal Water District
ECMC Foundation
Elevate Public Affairs
First 5 LA
Friends of the LA River
Gaffney Austin, LLC
Geffen Academy
Gensler
Google
GrassrootsLab LLC
Green Tara Project
Groundswell Fund
Heal the Bay
Herbalife
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)
Holland & Knight

Hospitality Training Academy
Instructure
KIPP LA Schools
L.A. Coalition for Excellent Public Schools
LA Cleantech Incubator
LA’s Best
Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Police Department
Lyft
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Montgomery Clark
Moulton Niguel Water District
Multicultural Learning Center
My Friend’s Place
Office of Exposition Park Management
Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis
One Table
Para Los Niños
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Phillips 66
Phoenix LA
Port of Long Beach
Prism
PUC Schools
Rutan & Tucker, LLP
RxLA, LLC
Safe Parking LA
Safe Place for Youth
SCAG

Scripps College
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
SoCal Gas
Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH)
Southern California Edison
Southern California Grantmakers
Southern California Regional Rail Authority
Stratiscope
Taproot Foundation
The Actor’s Gang
The Broad Center
The California Wellness Foundation
The Chicago School
The LA Trust for Children’s Health
The Laguna Playhouse
The People Concern
The Riordan Programs at UCLA
Thrive Scholars
UCLA
UCLA Hispanic American Periodicals Index
UCLA, Luskin Center for History and Policy
United Airlines
University of California, San Diego
University of Maryland
USC
USC, Rossier School of Education
Upstart
US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Verizon
Vision y Compromiso
YWCA of Greater LA

“Serving mainly public agencies, Best Best & Krieger LLP has greatly benefited from the training our lawyers have received from the Coro Lead Program. They have supplemented their legal skills and talent with a deeper sensitivity to the human motivations and policy implications of the work our clients seek from us. Tuning into and understanding the subtle connections and political nuances inherent in any organization can sometimes take years of trial and error. The knowledge and background Coro has given our associates has fast-tracked them to positions of greater leadership and responsibility within the firm and with our clients. The benefits are double-fold: our law firm has become better and stronger, and the cities, water districts and other public entities with whom we work get a level of service infused with greater insight and dedication to the public good. Our Coro-trained lawyers have become key team members for the clients they serve. They willingly step up to challenges; they reach out to their colleagues and clients in honest, respectful and meaningful ways to connect and come up with legal solutions that make policy sense. Their work is more sophisticated and, frankly, fun.”

Ruben DuranManaging Partner, Best Best & Krieger LLP

“In a time when professional development is critical to demonstrate organizational commitment to staff, Downtown Women's Center (DWC) is ever reliant on the amazing training opportunities made possible through Coro Programs. We have first-hand seen an advancement in our mission because of the deeper network, civic engagement, and personal and professional skills building that come with joining the Coro community. Staff who have completed Coro Programs demonstrate greater adaptive leadership skills at DWC, a timelessly important quality, but one that converging health and social pandemics demands of our current workforce today more than ever.”

Amy TurkChief Executive Officer, Downtown Women’s Center

"Chrysalis has significantly benefited from staff member participation in Coro mid-career programs. Our staff that have participated in Lead LA, Women in Leadership, and the Workforce Leadership Network have accelerated their professional development and helped us to address some of the biggest challenges our organization faces. Most of our Coro graduates have been promoted to greater levels of responsibility and influence at Chrysalis, and I am certain that the unique leadership development programs offered by Coro played a major role in their success."

Mark Loranger President & CEO, Chrysalis

"The Coro programs supported my team’s needs as we continue to operate in a flexible working environment and recently expanded our staff. Coro’s training gave us a shared language that improved our communication, strengthened trust and supported interpersonal relationships across departments. Most significantly, the training empowered my employees to be leaders who think critically, ask incisive questions and further interrogate their processes and the quality of their work."

Jessica LallFormer President & CEO, Central City Association of Los Angeles

“The Coro Women in Leadership program has provided our leaders with the opportunity to further develop networks of strong, positive women that are working to support one another in their professional advancement. Coro’s unique leadership approach engages leaders in a process to re-frame and assess situations differently, while considering diverse viewpoints and limiting preconceptions. The lessons and experiences offered help our leaders acquire new skill sets that will help them continue to advance teams within our company and further their own professional growth.”

Raúl BustillosSenior Vice President of Community Relations, Bank of America

“One of the women on my team participated in the Women in Leadership program. She had nothing but good things to say. She learned from great instructors and speakers, participated in an excellent exchange of ideas, and made new friends from the public and private sectors. Very much worth the time and investment.”

Tod GimbelFormer Senior Vice President of Global Government Affairs, Herbalife

“Coro provides an excellent variety of programs that are beneficial to individuals at various stages of their career. All of our team members at Southern California Edison who have participated in Coro programs have consistently walked away with tangible learnings that have helped them develop their career. Equally important, they have connected with a diverse set of peers helping expand their networks.”

Zanku ArmenianDirector of Public Affairs, Southern California Edison