Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network includes 60 hours of immersive professional development using Coro’s proprietary curriculum. Participants convene over 7 sessions from February to May.

Opening Retreat: Participants are introduced to essential leadership tools and frameworks as they build strong relationships to support their growth throughout the program. The retreat fosters self-reflection and sets the stage for Coro’s approach to learning.

Leadership Forums: Sessions led by Coro’s expert facilitators, focusing on leadership strategies to effectively impact the housing and houselessness field. Practice and apply proven leadership strategies:

• human-centered design

• coalition building and effective advocacy

• navigating organizational change

• managing diverse teams

• systems thinking

• inquiry and evaluation skills

• stakeholder analysis, and more.

Focus Days: Cohort-led explorations of specific challenges promote collaboration, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Participants work in small teams to design and lead an in-depth exploration of a housing issue, deepening their understanding of challenges and potential solutions.

Increase your capacity to address real-world professional challenges through peer coaching, testing solutions in a confidential, empowered environment.

Deepen your understanding of time-tested leadership strategies and skills, including inquiry, feedback, and communication. Adaptive leadership modules increase participants’ capacity to successfully navigate change.

Expand your knowledge of challenges in the field, while engaging in thought-partnership with the cohort and expert stakeholders to explore innovative solutions.

Build meaningful relationships with other regional change makers in the housing and houselessness field. Join Coro’s 15,000-strong network of remarkable leaders.

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

• Alumni-only continuing education sessions.

• Networking events with key 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 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 5+ years of professional experience in housing and/or houselessness.

• are committed to driving solutions to housing and houselessness challenges.

• view housing and houselessness as a cross-sector, collaborative endeavor.

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

• 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 $7,500 by our generous sponsors).

Stipends

Coro provides need-based stipends to offset expenses related to program participation. Applicants seeking a stipend must complete the relevant questions on the application.

Employer Assistance

Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide to support this conversation with your employer.

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