About 86 hours of professional development programming from early September to early May meeting about 9 hours per month. You can also expect about 10 hours spent outside of sessions (spread across the program length) on Issue Day team group work and other assignments.

The Programs are broken into five components:

1. Orientation – Kickstart the cohort-building process and begin the Issue Day planning
2. Opening Retreat – A three-day, two-night off-site retreat where the cohort engages in intensive skills foundation laying and relationship building
3. Logic Study – A pressure-test of the cohort’s leadership skills to highlight your baseline management and professional defaults while exploring the unique dynamics of a part of Los Angeles
4. Leadership Forums – Full-day facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions
5. Issue Days – Cohort-led explorations of a regional challenge to stretch your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting. The cohort selects both the topics and the teams.

Explore the 2023-2024 Lead LA program calendar for the dates and times of these program components and the program’s attendance policy.

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Of past participants, 94% agree that their participation increased their leadership skills and 95% say they are likely to apply the tools and principles gained through their participation.

1. Prompts you to engage in deep professional and leadership reflection.
2. Empowers you with time-tested professional, leadership, and management skills, tools, and frameworks.
3. Invites you into a community eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other.

The curriculum includes a wide range of professional skills-building:

• Adaptive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) and Anti-Racism
• Effective Communication
• Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Group Effectiveness
• Interpersonal Leadership Styles™
• Managing Diverse Teams
• Mindfulness Practices
• Project Management Tools
• Public Narrative Frameworks
• Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools
• Stakeholder Analysis and Coalition Building

The Logic Study and Issue Days serve as a vehicle for you to exercise leadership and management skills in a real-time setting, practicing their professional development in an experiential way, while also enhancing your knowledge of the region.

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Lead LA creates opportunities for you to bring your professional work into the program.

“Participating in Lead LA has been a refreshing boost of energy to many parts of my life. Our facilitators have taught us tools and frameworks that invigorate the ways I see myself as a teammate and enhance the ways I work with others. It’s been refreshing to step out of the sectors I am used to operating in and have new professional and personal curiosities sparked. The design of the program magically turned a demographically diverse group of Los                                                      Angeles devotees into a solid network of friends who I                                                            know I will call on for years to come. ”

                                                ~ RJ Sakai (Lead LA 5), Director of Social Innovation and Co-                                                   Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Sequoyah School

• Personal Leadership Commitments – you will name a specific area of growth you plan to practice over the course of the program.
• Peer Consultancy – the peer consultancy case enables you to bring into the program a real-world professional challenge you are seeking to address and to seek peer coaching from your cohort.
• Exploring Tough Interpretations – an adaptive leadership module that builds on Coro’s effective inquiry, giving and receiving feedback, and effective communication tools to illuminate your resistance to change.
• What? So, What? Now, What? Stand – a concluding activity in which you will synthesize the program’s impact and set commitments to continue your capacity building beyond the conclusion of the program.

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Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views represented in programming and cohorts; as such, Coro Lead LA cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and identities.

Of past participants, 99% agree that their participation in the program expanded their professional network and 97% say they are likely to stay connected to those they met through their participation.

You are an ideal Lead LA participant if you:

• live, work, and/or serve communities in the Greater Los Angeles area,
• are committed to deepening your professional leadership capacity,
• are currently in or would like to kickstart the transition into leadership or management roles or positions,
• are looking to expand your professional and personal network,
• view leadership as an action versus a title or role,
• are interested in learning more about the region, its challenges, and how collaboration can lead to impact and change, and
• are able to conduct programming in-person and meet the program attendance requirements.

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Multi-Perspective: You should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and ready to engage in personal reflection. Since the program’s launch in 2018, Coro Lead LA applications have represented a diverse cross-section of the region, particularly by sector (41% nonprofit, 23% private, 20% public, 14% mixed/other) and race (35% White, 20% Latino/a/x, 14% Black, 9% Asian/South Asian, 4% Middle Eastern, and 18% Other/Two or More races).

Intentional Ambiguity: A signature characteristic of Coro programming is generating intentional ambiguity, which works to highlight your defaults, ignite your learning, and support you to lead and manage through uncertainty.

Learn by Doing: Coro views leadership as a practice; you should be ready to learn by doing with sessions as opportunities to lay the foundation; you will gain the most by taking the skills, tools, and frameworks and practicing/adapting them in your professional roles.

“[Coro] has challenged some of my core assumptions, introduced me to sophisticated – yet practical – applied leadership techniques, and perhaps most importantly, has provided an opportunity for me to deeply connect with a diverse group of Los Angeles leaders in a meaningful and lasting way. I’ve found the program to be extremely useful in both my professional and personal life.”

~ Ruben Aronin (Lead LA 1), Principal, Better World                                                              Group; Director, California Business Alliance for a                                                                  Clean Economy

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Coro Lead LA provides exceptional value to both individuals and organizations at approximately $65 per facilitated hour of leadership development training.

2023-2024 Lead LA program tuition is $5,500. The tuition covers:

• Over 85 hours of expert facilitated learning, materials, and instruction
• Interpersonal Leadership StylesTM assessment and materials
• Two-night double-occupancy accommodations at the Opening Leadership Retreat (note: you can reserve a single-occupancy room for the Opening Leadership Retreat for an additional room fee of $550)
• All meals during the Opening Leadership Retreat
• Lunch during full-day, in-person sessions
• Closing Ceremony reception
• Issue Day Planning Stipends
• Periodic Coro continuing learning and networking events
• Access to Coro Lead LA GSuite platforms, Trello, and Slack accounts
• Upon successful completion, a Coro Lead LA certificate of completion and access to the Coro community and special alumni-only events, programming, and platforms

You may incur additional incidental expenses due to your participation, such as transportation and parking costs and additional meals outside of those provided by Coro.

Do not let financial concerns prevent you from applying. We have identified various methods to assist with the financial cost of participation. See General Lead LA FAQs under the “How much does Coro Lead LA cost & what sort of financial support is available?” for more expansive information about the following.

Employer Assistance: 57% of 2022-2023 Lead LA participants secured full or partial financial assistance from their employers. We encourage you to speak with your employer about potential support. We have provided a  Program Benefits Guide for Organizations FAQs to assist with employer  conversations.

Coro Discounts: Coro provides a variety of discounts to eligible Lead LA participants. More about these discounts can be found in the General Lead LA FAQs. Participants are only able to receive one discount, even if eligible for multiple. Coro will apply the largest discount if eligible for multiple.

Coro Scholarships: If you are interested in being considered for partial, need-based scholarships, complete the scholarship questions on the application.

Payment Plans: Coro makes available payment plan options for Lead LA. Options will be communicated to accepted candidates at the time of decision.