Climate Resilience Leadership Network
Developing stewards to nurture resilient communities
Climate Resilience Leadership Network is a part-time leadership development program that awakens, builds, and grows stewards to nurture healthier and more resilient communities in the Los Angeles region. Drawing from practices of regenerative and placed-sourced solutions, Climate Resilience Leadership Network enables participants to deepen their understanding of the innate potential that lies within the living systems of Los Angeles Basin and build capacity to foster a more climate resilient future.
This program has been designed in collaboration with Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles (ARLA) and the Regenesis Institute.
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Climate Resilience Leadership Network includes 60 hours of immersive professional development using Coro’s proprietary curriculum. Participants convene over 10 sessions from February to June.
Opening Retreat: Fosters self-reflection and deep thinking, setting the stage for Coro’s approach to learning. Participants are introduced to essential tools and frameworks that form the foundation of their immersive experience.
Leadership Forums: Uniquely-tailored leadership development sessions focused on strengthening the professional and personal leadership skills needed to positively impact climate resilience. These are highly-collaborative, cross-sector, experiential sessions covering holistic approaches to shaping living infrastructure, narrative frameworks to inspire collective action, and leadership skills for systems navigation and change.
Sessions are held in different locations across the Los Angeles region, requiring participants to travel.
Cohort Project: Cohort-led exploration of a climate resilience challenge facing the Los Angeles region. Participants work in small teams to take ownership of the learning process, stretching your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting, while leveraging the diverse cross-sector peer learning environment.
Closing Symposium: A closing forum that centers facilitated reflection and networking for a continued real-world extension of learning outside of the program. This mandatory gathering offers a structured space to share insights, discuss challenges, and solidify the growth achieved throughout the program.
Exposure to diverse perspectives on climate policy, advocacy, environmental justice, and land management and transformation.
Utilize the Living Infrastructure Field Kit to envision and plan place-based community regeneration that integrates meaningful community engagement.
Deepen your understanding of complex, systematic climate resilience challenges, while engaging in thought partnership with the cohort and external stakeholders to create space for opportunities and solutions to emerge.
Expand your professional network to include a community of climate policy, advocacy, and community-based change makers eager to collaborate with and support one another.
Increase your capacity to nurture your potential in service of whole-systems solutions.
At Coro, the learning doesn’t stop when your program ends. Coro alumni gain access to:
Alumni-only continuing education sessions.
Networking events with 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 Coro credentials.
Alumni-only digital networking platforms to exchange resources and collaborate with other alumni.
Find the Program Benefits Guide below 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 direct experience in climate resilience advocacy, climate change action, environmental protection and justice, clean energy transition, community development, water solutions, land management and conservation, or related fields.
are eager to explore ways to build a climate resilient Los Angeles.
are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.
believe that addressing climate change and cultivating ecological resilience requires cross-sector collaboration.
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.
As climate change unfolds, the ability to lead through uncertain times will become increasingly essential. A signature characteristic of Coro programming is intentionally using ambiguity as a way to highlight your leadership defaults, ignite your learning, and support you to lead and manage through uncertainty. Sessions are structured to disrupt the student-teacher learning dynamic and encourage self-reflection and peer learning.
Program Cost
Tuition is $350 (subsidized from $9,500 by our generous sponsors).
Stipends
Thanks to the generous support of ARLA, Coro offers need-based stipends up to $1,000 per participant to offset expenses related to their participation. Applicants seeking a stipend must complete the relevant questions at the time of application.
Employer Assistance
Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide below to guide your conversation.
Issue Day Catalogues
These Issue Day Catalogues represent examples of past Lead LA cohorts leveraging their leadership skills to explore a civic challenge facing the region.
Education, Workforce Development & Income Inequality
Energy, Environment & Transportation
Past Participating Organizations
See Climate Resilience Leadership Network graduates’ organizations
Arlington Garden in Pasadena
Buro Happold
BayWa r.e. Americas
CityFi
City of Burbank, Water and Power
City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks
Climate Resolve
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell (District 2)
Crescenta Valley Water District
Estolano Advisors
Gensler
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
MorphoStrategies
Resources Legacy Fund
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Southern California Edison
Tataviam Land Conservancy
Television Academy
The Bay Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
University of Southern California Dornsife’s Public Exchange
US Environmental Protection Authority
US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
US Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary
VICUS
Water Replenishment District
Alumni Testimonials
“Coro’s thoughtful cohort selection, skillful facilitation, and insightful curriculum contributed to an incredible cohort and community-building experience that I will continue to cherish long after the conclusion of this program. I am so grateful for being able to participate in this incredibly worthwhile experience.”
Anna Brockway
“CRLN helped me build confidence in my leadership and my ability to affect the issues I care about. I came into the program feeling a bit pessimistic and insecure about my own place in the climate field. I feel strengthened by the support of the cohort and the practical insights I got from the program. It also helped challenge some of the assumptions I have and become more creative with my approaches.”
Julia Lindner
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