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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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 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.

Program Program Overview Who Should Participate Additional Skills Training Logistics
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.
  • 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) 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.
  • Resilient leadership
  • Leadership Versatility Index
  • Six, full-day seminar sessions
  • Primarily in-person
  • Tuition is $9,500
  • 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
  • -2 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
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.
  • Public Narrative Frameworks
  • Project Management Tools
  • 22 sessions
  • Primarily in-person
  • Tuition is $3,950*
    • Extra single-room accommodations fee of $450 for Opening Retreat
  • Delivered once a year, the program runs from September to 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. 

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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