Women in Leadership
Join an empowered community of women leaders
Women in Leadership is a part-time leadership development program designed to support women professionals as they deepen their impact as managers, team leaders, and community leaders. Whether your goals are to accelerate your career, build your professional toolkit, or strengthen your strategic decision-making capacity, Women in Leadership offers essential skills, a robust network, and the confidence to navigate challenges.
Women in Leadership is grounded in the challenges and opportunities facing women leaders. Participants engage in hands-on learning, expert-led discussions, and interactive sessions that explore navigating organizational dynamics, driving change, and leading with influence. This dynamic program offers an unparalleled opportunity to expand your leadership capacity and join a thriving network of peers, mentors, and influential civic leaders.
Apply to WIL
Early Decision Deadline:
June 15, 2025
$250 discount, priority status for admission and scholarships
Regular Decision Deadline: July 20, 2025
Women in Leadership includes over 60 hours of immersive professional development over 10 sessions from either September to December (Fall Cohort) or March to June (Spring Cohort).
Leadership Forums: Sessions led by Coro’s expert facilitators, tailored to the unique leadership contributions and challenges of women in the workplace. Participants practice proven leadership frameworks, emerging with the tools they need to make their value visible in the workplace, lead effectively, and advance their careers:
- managing diverse teams
- negotiation and effective communication
- systems thinking
- inquiry and critical thinking skills
- stakeholder analysis, and more.
Coro Conversations: Cohort-led explorations of challenges facing women in the workplace, aimed at increasing participants’ professional and leadership capacities.
Peer Consultancies: An adaptive peer coaching module to tackle real-world leadership challenges and test solutions in a confidential, empowering environment.
Relationship Building: Expand your professional network in community with women eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other.
Gain an expanded, robust professional network of women working to activate positive change in their organizations and across our region. Join Coro’s 15,000-strong network of remarkable leaders.
Increase your capacity to effectively navigate professional challenges and advance your career, leveraging leadership frameworks and skills.
Learn to create a culture of trust, and develop effective communication, negotiation, and feedback skills.
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 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 mid-career women eager for professional leadership development.
are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.
are looking to expand their professional network.
have worked in a role managing staff, projects, or budgets.
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 $3,750 (subsidized from $6,500 by generous donors).
Scholarships
Coro provides partial, need-based, scholarships. Applicants seeking a scholarship 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 below to support this conversation with your employer.
Questions? Contact
Callie Spaide
Associate Director, Recruitment & Alumni Relations
callie@corola.org
Past Participating Organizations
See Women in Leadership graduates’ organizations
1st Century Bank
Abernathy MacGregor
Accordant
ACLU of Southern California
ActiveSGV
Advanced Sterilization Products
Adventist Health White Memorial
AFH Public Affairs
AltaMed Health Services
A Place Called Home
Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS)
AT&T
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Benenson Strategy Group
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Block By Block, Southwest Region
Brand Knew
British Consulate – General Los Angeles
Brentwood School
California Charter Schools Association
California Community Foundation
California Resources Corporation
California State University, Northridge
Campaign for College Opportunity
Capital Group
Caruso
CBRE
Cedars-Sinai
Century Housing Corporation
CEO Leadership Alliance
Cerrell Associates
Chapman University
ChargerHelp!
CHERP, Inc.
Children’s Health Orange County (CHOC)
Children’s Institute
CicLAvia
City of Alhambra
City of Costa Mesa
City of Glendale, Brand Library & Art Center
City of Houston, Mayor’s Office of Education
City of Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering
City of Los Angeles Controller’s Office
City of Los Angeles, Council District 2
City of Los Angeles, Council District 3
City of Los Angeles, Council District 7
City of Los Angeles, Council District 10
City of Los Angeles, Council District 11
City of Los Angeles, Council District 12
City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration
City of Los Angeles, Department of Transportation
City of Los Angeles, Department of Water & Power
City of Pico Rivera
City of Santa Monica
City of Santa Monica, Department of Cultural Affairs
City of South Gate, City Council
Clean Power Alliance
Community Partners
Comp Sci High School
Concordia, LLC
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Converge Strategies LLC
Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
County of Los Angeles, Board of Supervisors District 1
County of Los Angeles, Board of Supervisors District 2
County of Los Angeles, Board of Supervisors District 4
County of Los Angeles, Chief Sustainability Office
County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services
County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health
County of Orange
Curt Pringle and Associates
Diversity in Leadership Institute
DHL Corporation
Dole Sunshine Company
Downtown Women’s Center
Elevate Public Affairs
Encore VFX
Equitas Academy Charter Schools
Essential Access Health
Feed Black Futures
First 5 LA
Friends of the LA River
Gabriella Charter Schools
Gaffney Austin
Glaser Weil
Glendale Unified School District
Google
GrassrootsLab
Groundswell Action Fund
GSPN
Heal the Bay
Heidi Duckler Dance
Heluna Health
Herbalife Nutrition
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)
Holland & Knight LLP
Homeless Health Care Los Angeles
Initiate Justice
Inner City Law Center
Instructure
Investing in Place
Irvine Ranch Water District
JCI Worldwide
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Kheir Clinic
KIPP SoCal Public Schools
LA 84 Foundation
LA Coalition for Excellent Public Schools
LA Conservation Corps
LA Promise Fund
LA’s BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program
Laguna Playhouse
Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP)
Lennar Corporation
LeSar Development Consultants
Liberty Hill Foundation
Los Angeles Education Partnership
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Los Angeles Metro
Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Unified School District
Loyola Law School
Loyola Marymount University School of Education Alumni Association
McDermott + Bull Executive Search
Media Done Responsibly
Meta Housing Corporation
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Michael Baker International
Mission Lutheran Church
Moulton Niguel Water District
Move LA
National Association of Investment Companies
National Association of Social Workers California
National Council of Jewish Women, Los Angeles
New Economics for Women
Orange County Business Council
Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission
Orange County United Way
Orchid Essence, LLC
Panthera Collective
Para Los Niños
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Partnership for Public Service
Phillips 66
Port of Long Beach
Providence St. John’s Health Center
PUENTE Learning Center
Purposeful Impact, LLC
RAND Corporation, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Realtor
Rutan & Tucker, LLP
RxLA, LLC
Safe Place for Youth
Safety Respect Equity Network
San Bernardino Symphony
San Bernardino Community College District
Scripps College
SDG Housing Partners
Sentinel Peak Resources CA, LLC
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing
Southern California Association of Governments
Southern California Edison
Southern California Gas Company
Southern California Grantmakers
Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Program (SCHARP)
Special Olympics Southern California
SS HOPICS
Stantec
State of California, Office of Exposition Park Management
State of California, Office of the Public Defender
St. Joseph Hospital
Starbucks
State Bar of California
Swarovski
Tassio Temperature Control, Inc.
Teach For America
Team One USA
The Broad Center
The California Endowment
The California Wellness Foundation
The Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
The Education Trust-West
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
The Giving List
The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
The Pad Project
The People Concern
The Phoenix
The Riordan Programs at UCLA
The Walt Disney Company
Thomas Safran & Associates
Thrive Scholars
Townsend Public Affairs
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles, Alumni Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen Academy
University of California, Los Angeles, Government and Community Relations
University of Maryland
University of Redlands
Union Station Homeless Services
United States Department of Defense
United States House of Representative, District 25
University of California, San Diego
University of Southern California
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education
Vision y Compromiso
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services
Vital Research
Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation
WarnerMedia
Watt Investment Partners
Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)
Westside Family Health Center
Wide Sky Consulting, Inc.
WISEPlace
Ylopo, Inc.
Alumni Testimonials
“My time with Coro Southern California has profoundly influenced both my personal and professional growth… It has been instrumental in shaping my approach to leadership and community involvement… It’s an invaluable opportunity that can significantly enhance your leadership skills and broaden your perspective… If you’re looking to make a meaningful impact in your community and develop as a leader, Coro is an excellent choice.”
Charisse Burnett
“Coro’s Women in Leadership program was a transformative experience. It equipped me with the confidence and skills to lead effectively and intentionally within my workplace…The WIL program isn’t just about becoming a better leader; it’s about becoming the best version of yourself. It ignited a passion to elevate my leadership and embrace ambitious goals…”
Devyn Bakewell
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