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).
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how investing in your employees through a Coro program will benefit your organization
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the different programs Coro offers and the specific populations they serve
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how Coro X’s custom-designed programs can strengthen your team and organization
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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:
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Loyalty: Demonstrates your commitment to your team members’ professional growth, deepening their loyalty and leading to higher productivity.
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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.
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Profitability and Impact: Employees who participate in professional development are more productive and employee development boosts profitability and organizational impact.
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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 and
- 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.
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Women in Leadership (WIL) | Women in Leadership 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. |
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Executive Leadership Network (ELN) | The Executive Leadership Network Program (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. | The Executive Leadership Network is for leaders who are in the C-Suite or at the VP level. Participants should live/work in Southern California. |
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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. |
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Lead SoCal | Lead SoCal is a nine-month leadership development program for Southern California-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 Southern California, defined as San Diego County to Kern County and everything in between. Participants must have a minimum of 5 to 7 years of professional experience. |
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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
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