Across 60 hours of immersive professional development training, the program runs twice per calendar year (in the Fall, approximately September to December and again in the Spring, March to June) for five, two-day paired sessions (see Spring 2024 program calendar for dates and times). 

The Program is broken into three structural components:

• Leadership Forums – Facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions featuring Coro’s time-tested and unique curriculum with a focus on navigating unique professional challenges through a gender identity lens.
• Coro Conversations – Cohort-curated and -led explorations of a challenge facing women in the workplace or affecting women across Los Angeles to stretch your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting. The teams select the topics to bring learning into the room with their cohort.
• Peer Consultancies – An adaptive leadership peer coaching module to better diagnose professional challenges and determine possible steps to test solutions in an empowered environment with experienced professionals.

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Women in Leadership provides you 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. Women in Leadership also introduces you to a community of women eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other.

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

• Adaptive Leadership
• Building Self and Spacial Awareness Through Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) and Intersectionality
• Effective Inquiry
• Interpersonal Leadership Styles™
• Managing Diverse Teams
• Mindfulness Practices
• Negotiation
• Network Building
• Objective Analysis and Evaluation
• Public Speaking and Presentation Frameworks
• Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools
• Systems Thinking & Stakeholder Analysis

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As a leadership and professional development institute, Coro’s programs, including Women in Leadership, aim to expand the leadership and professional capacity of  participants  with professional networks, skills, and knowledge, supporting them as they drive impact in their work and communities. 

The program provides opportunities for you to bring your professional work and passion into the program.

• Coro Conversations – Coro Conversations serve as a vehicle for you to exercise leadership and management skills-building in a real-time setting, deepening your understanding of issues that uniquely impact women, while also practicing your professional development in an experiential way.
• 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.
• Personal Leadership Commitment – you will name a specific area of growth you plan to practice over the course of the program.
• Peer Consultancy – practice a consulting framework to receive peer coaching in a real-world professional challenge that you bring into the program.
• Sharing Professional Narratives and Vision – your leadership offers value to your work and Coro wants 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.

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

Ideal WIL candidates are:

• committed to deepening their professional leadership capacity alongside a cohort of fellow women leaders, and
• have been in roles managing staff, projects, and/or budgets, and
• looking to expand their professional and personal community.

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Multi-Perspective: You should be ready to engage productively with different paradigms and perspectives, ready to participate in personal reflection, and be willing to evaluate and reconsider your worldview given new information. Come prepared to explore new ways to contribute to the larger whole or create more value in your work.

Embracing Ambiguity: 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.

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.

Vulnerability and Psychological Safety: Coro views vulnerability as a critical leadership attribute essential for unleashing learning, building authentic and meaningful connection, and for holding spaces that are psychologically safe. Coro believes psychological safety is a precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration. You should be ready to contribute to building a psychological safe cohort environment by engaging, modeling vulnerability, seeking perspectives different than your own, sharing and receiving feedback, and contributing to a culture of gratitude and generosity.

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Coro’s unique approach to leadership and professional development training delivers both immediate and long-lasting capacity-building benefits by expanding your skills, networks, and knowledge.

• 97% of the three most recent cohorts agreed that their participation in WIL expanded their professional networks.
• 97% of the three most recent cohorts agreed that their participation in WIL increased their leadership skills.
• 97% of the three most recent cohorts agreed that their participation in WIL increased their confidence and resilience to lead through challenges.
• 95% of the three most recent cohorts agreed that their participation in WIL increased their strength gained through cohort solidarity.

“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
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