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Women in Leadership
The Coro Women in Leadership (WIL) program supports the leadership development of women, establishing a pipeline for professional advancement, and creating a cross-sector network of women who support each other’s leadership development. The time is now for you to harness your unique abilities, approaching your professional goals and challenges head on with Coro’s leadership toolkit at their helm.
Participants learn from 1) experienced leadership, mindfulness, and DEI facilitators, 2) peer coaching, and 3) the broader WIL and Coro community through Coro’s unique blend of experiential programming to stretch your professional and management skills.
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“The tools and training provided by Women in Leadership (WIL) allowed me to continuously fill my confidence cup and push through the doubts, believing that all I needed was within me already. I can’t thank [Coro] enough for the amazing training [they] have provided and continue to provide. I give WIL all the credit for disrupting me, opening my eyes to potential within me, and giving me the wings needed to take the leap.”
– Jacqueline Rangel, MPH CHES (WIL Fall 2020), Director of Digital Health and Consumer Engagement, AltaMed
WHAT YOU'LL DO
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
HOW WILL THE PROGRAM ENHANCE YOUR WORK
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
COST & FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Meeting for ten program days delivered over five, two-day sessions, and including over 60+ hours of professional development, Coro offers the WIL program twice a year, for a Fall and Spring cohort.
Coro WIL includes the following program components:
- Leadership Retreats – Facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions that center women’s leadership as a lens.
- Peer Consultancies – An adaptive leadership peer coaching module to better diagnose professional challenges and to test solutions.
- Coro Conversations – Cohort designed and led explorations of contemporary civic issues that uniquely impact women as exercises to stretch professional and leadership development in a real-time setting.
Spring 2023 Program Dates – Thursday & Friday
10 AM – 4 PM PST
- March 9-10
- March 30-31
- April 27-28
- May 11-12
- June 1-2
Program sessions will take place at Indie Desk (333 S. Grand Ave Suite 3310, Los Angeles, CA 90071)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
WIL provides participants with time-tested and immediately applicable professional, leadership, and management skills, tools, and frameworks, as well as deep professional and leadership reflection with the unique leadership contributions and challenges of women in the workplace as the backdrop. WIL also gives participants a community of women eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other.
“The value I have gained from participating in Women in Leadership is the ability to see things from different perspectives. Being in the program has shown me that some problems need solutions; some problems need leadership. I apply what I [learned] in Women in Leadership to help me be a more thoughtful and effective leader.”
~ Wendy Fung (WIL OC 2020), Business Development Manager, Port of Long Beach
The curriculum includes a wide range of professional skills-building:
- Adaptive Leadership
- Negotiation
- Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking
- Public Speaking and Presentation Frameworks
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Interpersonal Leadership Styles™
- Managing Diverse Teams
- Network Building
- Mindfulness Practices
- Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools
- Systems Thinking & Stakeholder Analysis
Coro Conversations serve as a vehicle for you to exercise leadership and management skills-building in a real-time setting, deepening your understanding of civic issues that uniquely impact women, while also practicing your professional development in an experiential way.
HOW WILL THE PROGRAM ENHANCE YOUR WORK
WIL creates opportunities for you to bring your professional work into the program and to take program learnings to work.
- Personal Leadership Commitments – you will name a specific area of growth you plan to practice over the course of the program with the tools to support your leadership journey.
- Peer Consultancy – peer coaching enables you to bring real-world professional challenges you are looking to address and to seek the peer coaching and guidance of your cohort.
- Exploring Tough Interpretations – an adaptive leadership module that builds on Coro’s effective inquiry, feedback, and effective communication tools to illuminate resistance to change.
- Sharing Professional Narratives and Vision – your leadership offers value to your work and we want to make that value visible. Through a concluding activity, you will synthesize the program’s impact and set commitments to continue your capacity building during and beyond the program.
WIL Is For You If…
- You are committed to deepening your professional leadership capacity alongside a cohort of fellow women leaders,
- You are or have been in roles managing staff, projects, and/or budgets, and
- You are looking to expand your professional and personal community.
Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views represented in programming and cohorts. As such, the Coro WIL cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and identities.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Multi-Perspective: You should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and ready to engage in personal reflection.
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.
COST & FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
WIL tuition is $3,500. The tuition covers:
- 60+ hours of expert facilitated learning, materials, and instruction
- Interpersonal Leadership Styles™ assessment and materials
- Lunch and refreshments during sessions
- Closing Ceremony reception
- Ongoing Coro and WIL Program learning and networking events
- Upon successful completion, a Coro WIL Program 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.
Do not let financial concerns prevent you from applying. We have identified various methods to assist with the financial cost of participation.
Employer and Sponsor Assistance:
Many WIL participants secure full or partial financial assistance from their employers as part of the organization’s professional development efforts. We encourage you to speak with your employer or to engage your network about potential support. We have provided a Program Benefits for Organizations to assist with employer and/or sponsor conversations.
Coro Scholarships: Coro makes available partial, need-based scholarships. If you are interested in being considered for partial, need-based scholarships, complete the scholarship questions on the application. While Coro strives to provide financial support to all accepted candidates demonstrating need, scholarships are not guaranteed.
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- Abernathy MacGregor
- Accordant
- ACLU of Southern California
- ActiveSGV
- Advanced Sterilization Products
- AFH Public Affairs
- AltaMed Health Services
- Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS)
- Bain & Company
- Bank of America
- Benenson Strategy Group
- Best Best & Krieger LLP
- Block By Block, Southwest Region
- Brand Knew
- Brentwood School
- California Charter Schools Association
- California Community Foundation
- California Resources Corporation
- Capital Group
- Cedars-Sinai
- Century Housing Corporation
- CEO Leadership Alliance
- Cerrell Associates
- Chapman University
- ChargerHelp!
- CHERP, Inc.
- CHOC – Children’s Health Orange County
- CicLAvia
- City of Costa Mesa
- City of Los Angeles
- City of Los Angeles – Bureau of Engineering
- City of Los Angeles Controller’s Office
- City of Los Angeles, Council District 10
- City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember John Lee (CD 12)
- City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Mike Bonin (CD 11)
- City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Monica Rodriguez (CD 7)
- City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Paul Krekorian (CD2)
- City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration
- City of Pico Rivera
- City of Santa Monica
- City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs
- Clean Power Alliance
- Community Partners
- Comp Sci High School
- Concordia LLC
- Conrad N Hilton Foundation
- Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
- County of Orange
- Diversity in Leadership Institute
- Downtown Women’s Center
- Elevate Public Affairs
- Essential Access Health
- Feed Black Futures
- First 5 LA
- Friends of the LA River
- Gabriella Charter Schools
- Gaffney Austin
- Geffen Academy at UCLA
- Glaser Weil
- Glendale Unified School District
- GrassrootsLab
- Herbalife Nutrition
- Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Homeless Health Care Los Angeles
- Instructure
- Investing in Place
- Irvine Ranch Water District
- JCI Worldwide
- Kheir Clinic
- KIPP SoCal Public Schools
- L.A. Coalition for Excellent Public Schools
- LA Conservation Corps
- LA’s BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program
- Laguna Playhouse
- Lennar Corporation
- Liberty Hill Foundation
- Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
- Los Angeles County Department of Health Services; CSUN
- Los Angeles Department of Transportation
- Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
- Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
- Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Los Angeles Times
- Los Angeles Unified School District
- Mayor’s Office of Education in the City of Houston
- McDermott + Bull Executive Search
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- Michael Baker International
- Mission Lutheran Church | Moulton Niguel Water District
- Moulton Niguel Water District
- National Association of Investment Companies
- National Council of Jewish Women, Los Angeles
- New Economics for Women
- Office of Exposition Park Management, State of California
- Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis
- Orange County Business Council
- Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission
- Orange County United Way
- Panthera Collective
- Para Los Niños
- Partnership for Public Service
- Port of Long Beach
- Purposeful Impact, LLC
- Realtor
- Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- RxLA, LLC
- Safe Place for Youth
- Safety Respect Equity Network
- San Bernardino Symphony / Univ. of Redlands / SBCCD
- Scripps College
- SDG Housing Partners
- Sentinel Peak Resources CA, LLC
- Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
- Southern CA Association of Nonprofit Housing
- Southern California Association of Governments
- Southern California Edison
- Southern California Gas Company
- Southern California Grantmakers
- Special Olympics Southern California
- St. Joseph Hospital, Orange
- Starbucks
- State Bar of California
- Swarovski
- Teach For America
- The Broad Center
- The California Endowment
- The California Wellness Foundation
- The Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation
- 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 People Concern
- The Riordan Programs at UCLA
- The Walt Disney Company
- Thomas Safran & Associates
- Thrive Scholars
- Townsend Public Affairs
- UCLA Alumni Affairs
- UCLA, Government and Community Relations
- Union Station Homeless Services
- United States Department of Defense
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Southern California
- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
- Vision y Compromiso
- Vital Research
- WarnerMedia
- Watt Investment Partners
- Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)
- Wide Sky Consulting, Inc.
- WISEPlace
- Ylopo, Inc.
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Executive, Business and Organization Consultant
Aileen Adams
Former Deputy Mayor, Office of Strategic Partnerships of the City of Los Angeles
Ana Guerrero
Strategic Advisor, Office of Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti
Billie Greer
Public Policy Advisor
Carol Liu
Former Senator, California State Senate
Caroline Djang
Partner, Best Best & Krieger LLP
Christine Essel
President and Chief Executive Officer, Southern California Grantmakers
Cristina Rose
President and CEO, Rose Policy Solutions
Holly J. Mitchell
Chair, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Jared Mathis
CEO, The Moulton Company
Dr. Jerry Hunter
Distinguished Lecturer College of Education, California State University, Fullerton
Jessica Lall
Chief Executive Officer, Central City Association
Joanne Kozberg
Partner, California Strategies, LLC
Lindsey Horvath
Councilmember, City of West Hollywood
Leadership Circle
Lauren Chang
Senior Land Use Associate Attorney, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Aretta Frazier
Development Manager, LA’s BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program
Katherine Fuentes
Assistant City Manager, City of Pico Rivera
Laura Gaboudian
Author & Educational Consultant
Angelina Gonzalez
Sr. Contracts and Grants Manager, UCLA
Carleen Gonzalez
Security Administration Coordinator, Port of Long Beach, Security Division
Ann Isbell
Program Officer, First 5 LA
Erin Jackson-Ward
Director, Community Benefit Giving, Cedars-Sinai
Vicki Klopsch
Executive Director, Laspa Center for Leadership, Scripps College
Erin Lanahan
Principal Consultant, Accordant
Asha Lang
Strategic Philanthropy Program Manager, The Walt Disney Company
Sajji Lazarus
CEO, Panthera Collective
Melissa Lee
Director of Planning & Community Engagement, Concordia
Tiffany Mayberry
Strategist and Consultant, Turn the Other Chic, Inc.
Maria Melo
Policy and Operations Manager, Los Angeles LGBT Center
Claudia Oliveira
Elected Official, DLANC
Amanda Parsons DeRosier
Senior Vice President, Elevate Public Affairs
Lorena Sanchez
Chief Development and Communication Officer, Downtown Women’s Center
Siari Sosa
M&E team leader, SoCalGas
Amy Turk
CEO, Downtown Women’s Center
Application
The application period for the Spring 2023 WIL cohort has ended. Fill out an interest form below to receive updates about the Fall 2023 WIL cohort.
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Program Benefits
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Questions? Contact:
Callie Spaide
Senior Manager, Recruitment and Alumni Relations
callie@corola.org
(213) 267-6497
“This was the best investment that I have made for myself. I have gained more confidence in bringing my authentic self to work. By listening to other women's journeys I realize that many of us face similar challenges. It has helped me realize that the challenges do not define you.”
Janelle HartleyLocal Public Affairs Manager, Southern California Edison 
"Being in WIL has shown me how much positive change in Los Angeles is being driven by powerful women. I'm excited to continue to flex the muscles that Coro helped me strengthen and contribute to continually deepening our civic work in LA."
Amy TurkChief Innovation Officer, Downtown Women's Center 
“Being in WIL has taught me how to refine my leadership skills, advocate for myself, and be confident in my abilities to be a leader. I apply what I've learned in WIL every day in both my professional and personal life.”
Bianca RodasMarketing Manager, Experiential Los Angeles Times 
“The value I have gained from participating in WIL is a sense of certainty that my strengths, personality traits and all that makes me me, makes for a great leader. It's the understanding and leveraging of these that will enable me to lead and do so from an authentic place.”
Allison OstrovskyCultural Affairs Supervisor, City of Santa Monica 
"These incredibly inspiring women who have now become lifelong friends."
Erin Jackson-WardDirector, Community Benefit Giving, Cedars-Sinai 
"I loved the experience, particularly the opportunity to tackle new leadership concepts and practice them in active dialogue and reflection with a group of inspiring women."
Vicki KlopschExecutive Director, Laspa Center for Leadership, Scripps College 
"I've enjoyed the opportunity to build relationships with other incredible women, while polishing my skills in negotiation, facilitation, leveraging partnerships, and achieving measurable personal growth."
Melissa LeeDirector of Planning & Community Engagement, Concordia 
"The focused curriculum which has been a great reference and tool in my career. And the network of women in my cohort and beyond has been invaluable."
Tiffany MayberryStrategist and Consultant, Turn the Other Chic, Inc. 
"The relationships built throughout the course of the program have resulted in a support system that cheers one another on, shares ideas, and advances discussions in a meaningful and valuable way."
Amanda Parsons DeRosierSenior Vice President, Elevate Public Affairs 
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