Executive Leadership Network
Equipping executives for impactful leadership
Effective executive leadership requires the ability to navigate complex organizational challenges. The Executive Leadership Network is an intensive, part-time program designed to develop these essential qualities while addressing the isolation many executive leaders face due to their position within organizational hierarchies. Participants engage in the exchange of critical perspectives with other executive leaders, supported by the tools, network, and practice needed to drive meaningful change.
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Executive Leadership Network includes 50 hours of immersive professional development over 8 sessions from February to June.
Leadership Forums: Sessions facilitated by Coro’s expert facilitators, focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities of executive leadership. Practice and apply proven leadership strategies:
- navigating, leading, and initiating organizational change
- adaptive leadership
- managing diverse teams
- systems thinking
- inquiry and evaluation skills
- stakeholder analysis, and more.
Individualized Executive Coaching: A comprehensive 360-assessment using the Leadership Versatility Index™, tailored one-on-one sessions, and an action plan to identify key areas for growth and impact.
Peer Consultancies: An adaptive peer coaching module to tackle real-world leadership challenges and test solutions in a confidential, empowering environment.
Leadership Networking Dinners: Build meaningful relationships and network with cohort colleagues and regional leaders in a supportive setting.
Gain an expanded, robust professional network, addressing the “lone wolf” isolation often faced by executives. Join Coro’s 15,000-strong network of remarkable leaders.
Increase your capacity to effectively navigate professional challenges, leveraging time-tested leadership frameworks and skills.
Learn to create a culture of trust, and develop effective communication, negotiation, and feedback skills.
Develop an organizational culture that inspires open dialogue and empowers employees to confidently engage in constructive feedback
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.
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…
are executive leaders at their organizations.
are eager for professional leadership development.
are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.
are looking to expand their professional network.
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 $8,500 (subsidized from $14,500 by generous donors).
Participant Scholarships
Need-based partial scholarships are available. Applicants seeking a scholarship should complete the relevant questions in our program application.
Organizational Assistance
Many participants secure financial support from their employers for the program fee. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide below to support this conversation with your employer.
Past Participating Organizations
See Executive Leadership Network graduates’ organizations
Abode Communities
AnitaB.org
Bank of America
Caruso
Cause Communications
Center for Nonprofit Management
Chrysalis
City of Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Human Rights and Equity
City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering
Community Partners
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
County of Los Angeles, Chief Executive Office
Downtown Women’s Cente
Elevate Public Affairs
Green Side Consulting
Guidehouse
Heidi Duckler Dance
Hollywood 4WR
Imagine LA
IX Acquisition Corp.
LA’s BEST
Legal Education Access Pipeline
Long Beach Police Department
Miguel Contreras Foundation
Para Los Niños
Partnership for Growth LA
Port of Long Beach
SMET Foundation
Southern California Edison
Southern California Grantmakers
The California Wellness Foundation
UCLA Extension
Upstage Theatre Schools, Inc.
Alumni Testimonials
“ELN was way beyond my expectations. I was introduced to new ways of thinking; challenged both professionally and personally; lifted up by my peers, and welcomed into a dynamic and caring community of leaders. The ELN experience was one of the best professional growth opportunities I have had in my 30 year career.”
Julie Bank
“The Coro Executive Leadership Network experience was a transformative one, both personally and professionally; following years of leading through the COVID pandemic, the space created by the program team and my colleagues in ELN was a much-needed refuge where I could focus on my own growth and realignment of my values. I emerged a better version of who I previously was – reinvigorated and with a re-doubled commitment toward leading for change that is more just and equitable for the communities I serve.”
Sarah Figueroa-Freeman
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