Expanding LA professionals’ capacity for impact
The Lead LA Fellowship provides diverse cross-sectoral cohorts of Greater Los Angeles professionals the leadership and management skills, knowledge about the region, and a network of other professionals necessary to expand their capacity for impact within their teams, organizations, and communities.
Lead LA is the perfect Coro professional, part-time leadership development program for professionals looking to expand their professional network, gain time-tested leadership skills to enhance their work, and learn more about the Greater Los Angeles region and how they can make an impact, regardless of their professional role and responsibilities.
Join the Lead LA Recruitment Mixer on May 21st
About 90 hours of leadership and management development programming from September to May meeting once-to-twice per month for full- or half-day sessions. You can also expect about 10-12 hours spent outside of sessions on Issue Day group work and individual assignments. The Lead LA Fellowship is broken into five components:
Kickoff
Begins the cohort-building process and Issue Day planning and sets the stage for what is to come across the 9-month program.
Opening Leadership Retreat
Mandatory, three-day, two-night off-site retreat where the cohort engages in intensive skills foundation laying and relationship building.
Logic Study
A pressure-test of the cohort’s leadership skills to highlight your individual and collective default leadership behaviors, while exploring the unique dynamics of a part of Los Angeles.
Leadership Forums
Full-day facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions.
Issue Days
Cohort-led explorations of a regional civic challenge to stretch your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting.
Schedule a call with Coro to learn more.
Lead LA…
Prompts you to engage in deep professional and leadership reflection.
Empowers you with time-tested professional, leadership, and management skills, tools, and frameworks.
Invites you into a community eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other.
The curriculum includes a wide range of professional skills-building:
Adaptive Leadership
Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Inclusion (DAI)
Effective Communication
Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Group Effectiveness
Interpersonal Leadership Styles™
Managing Diverse Teams
Mindfulness Practices
Peer Consultancies
Project Management Tools
Public Narrative Framework
Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools
Stakeholder Analysis and Coalition Building
The Logic Study and Issue Days program components serve as a vehicle for you to exercise leadership and management skills in a real-time setting, practicing their professional development in an experiential way, while also enhancing your knowledge of the region.
Schedule a call with Coro to learn more.
The program creates opportunities for you to bring your professional work into the program.
Personal Leadership Commitment
You will name a specific area of growth you plan to practice over the course of the program.
Peer Consultancy & Exploring Tough Interpretations
Two adaptive leadership modules that enable you to understand your own resistance to change, (providing a glimpse into opportunities for enhanced impact and effectiveness), and bring into the program real-world professional challenges you are seeking to address.
Leadership Style Assessment
You’ll engage in deep reflection on your professional strengths and opportunities via the Interpersonal Leadership Styles™ assessment.
Sharing Your Impact and Vision
A concluding activity in which you will synthesize the program’s impact and set commitments to continue your capacity-building.
Expanding Your Network
Through both the cohort-building journey and the Logic Study and Issue Days program components, you will have an opportunity to build meaningful relationships with other regional professionals and their organizations. Following completion of the program, you will join a Coro community totalling over 15,000 cross-sectoral leaders and professionals.
Coro values the representation of diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views; as such, Lead LA Fellowship cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, beliefs, and identities.
Ideal Lead LA Fellowship candidates…
live, work, and/or serve communities in the Greater Los Angeles area
are committed to deepening their professional leadership capacity
are currently in or would like to transition into leadership or management roles or positions
are looking to expand their professional and personal network
view leadership as an ongoing practice versus a title or role
are interested in learning more about the region, its challenges, and how collaboration can lead to impact and change
are able to conduct programming in-person and meet the program attendance requirements
Schedule a call with Coro to learn more.
Multi-Perspective
Be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and ready to engage in personal reflection.
Intentional Ambiguity
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; 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
As a necessary component of multi-perspective learning, 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 as a precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration. You should be ready to contribute to building a psychological safe cohort environment.
As a leadership and professional development institute, Coro programs, including Lead LA, aim to expand the leadership and professional capacity of our program participants in order for them to have the networks, skills, and knowledge to drive impact in their work and communities.
The Lead LA Fellowship is…
A place to experience and appreciate diversity of experiences and viewpoints and engage in productive conflict and discourse
A place to identify personal professional strengths and areas for growth and practice skills building
A space to build a collaborative network of peers eager to work together – both during the program and afterward – to better understand how to address challenges facing the region and expand your toolkit of frameworks to enhance your capacity to do so
Schedule a call with Coro to learn more.
Program Cost
Tuition is $5,750 (subsidized from $9,500 thanks to the generous support of our sponsors). Participants may incur additional incidental expenses such as transportation and parking costs.
Organizational Assistance
Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. We encourage you to speak with your employer about potential support utilizing the Program Benefits Guide to guide your conversation.
Participant Scholarships
Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, Coro is able to provide partial, need-based, scholarships. Applicants seeking a scholarship must complete the relevant questions at the time of application. While Coro strives to provide financial support to all accepted candidates demonstrating need, scholarships are not guaranteed.
Tuition Discounts and Payment Plans
Coro also makes available a range of tuition discounts. Each participant can only receive one discount, even if eligible for multiple (excluding the single, full-payment discount). Coro will assign the highest value discount applicable. Coro also makes available payment plans for tuition payments being paid by a participant.
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.
94% agree that their participation increased their leadership skills.
95% say they are likely to apply the tools and principles gained through their participation.
97% say they are likely to stay connected to those they met through their participation.
99% of past participants agreed that their participation in Lead LA expanded their professional networks.
Coro’s programs deliver deep impact (see more in the “Impact & Testimonials” tab above and in the Program Benefits Guide) at a highly subsidized professional development rate. Lead LA enables organizations to invest in their aspiring and established managers to deliver on the organization’s mission.
Supporting team members – either financially and/or with the time and space to participate fully in Lead LA – yields strong organizational benefits by:
Increasing the skills of employees in critical positions that can be incorporated departmentally and instilled in their direct reports.
Demonstrating your commitment to the employee, increasing their feeling of engagement, which often leads to higher productivity, loyalty, and retention; and
Motivating all employees by signaling that leadership and a commitment to their work is rewarded by the organization.
Connect with Coro to discuss an organizational partnership and nominate a member of your team for Lead LA.
The Lead LA Alumni Honorees not only embrace the Lead LA programming during their participation, but also embody the program’s core elements – reflective leadership, effective team management, analytical systems thinking, and cross-sectoral collaboration – in their post-Lead LA work. The Honoree is awarded annually and announced at the Closing Ceremony. To read an honoree’s bio, click on their headshot.
To read an honoree’s bio, click on their headshot.
2020 Lead LA Alumni Honoree
Elissa K. Konove
Deputy Division Administrator
Federal Highway Administration (California Division)
2021 Lead LA Alumni Honoree
Corey Matthews
Vice President, Global Philanthropy
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2022 Lead LA Alumni Honoree
Chris Rhie
Climate & Sustainability Consultant
Rhie Planning LLC
2023 Lead LA Alumni Honoree
Aaron Ordower
Environment Deputy
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath
ACLU of Southern California
Actors’ Gang Prison Project, The
Advocates for Human Potential
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools
American Jewish Committee
Animo Pat Brown Charter High School
Annenberg Foundation
Arizona State University
ArtCenter College of Design
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Better World Group
BeyGOOD Foundation
Bird
Bridges Intergroup Relations Consulting
Broad Center, The
Buchalter
BuroHappold Engineering
California Endowment, The
California Resources Corporation
California State Assembly, Office of Assemblymember Rudy Salas (AD 32)
California State Senate, Office of Senator Senator Lena Gonzalez (SD 33)
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University, Northridge
Cause Communications
Cenergy Consulting, LLC
Center for Policing Equity
Central City Association of Los Angeles
Chrysalis
Citizens of the World Charter Schools
City of Glendale, Glendale Library, Arts & Culture
City of Los Angeles, Board of Public Works
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
City of Los Angeles, Department of Transportation
City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works
City of Los Angeles, Harbor Department
City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Bob Blumenfield (CD 3)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Joe Buscaino (CD 15)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Mike Bonin (CD 11)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Paul Koretz (CD 5)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Councilmember Paul Krekorian (CD 2)
City of Los Angeles, Office of District 14
City of Los Angeles, Office of the Mayor
City of Los Angeles, Personnel Department
City of Long Beach
City of San Fernando
Civic Innovation Lab
Children’s Institute
College Track
Community Coalition
Community Partners
County of Los Angeles, Center for Strategic Public-Private Partnerships
County of Los Angeles, Department of Arts and Culture
County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, Office of Diversion and Reentry
County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Social Services
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell (LA 2)
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl (LA 3)
Creative Artists Agency
Dignity Health
Discovery Cube Los Angeles
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc.
Downtown Women’s Center
ECMC Foundation, The
Edgility Consulting
Empowerment Congress
Fiducia CP
FlixBus
Ford Mobility
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Gartner
Gather Consulting
Gensler
Google
Guidehouse
Hatch Collection
HIAS
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality
Ichor Strategies, Los Angeles
iMentor
Jesse Gabriel for Assembly
J.L. Edmonds Project
John Wayne Cancer Institute & Pacific Neuroscience Institute, Providence Health System
Kantara
KIPP LA Schools
LA Election Project
LA Forward
LA Metro
LA Promise Fund
LA’s Best
LA Coalition for Excellent Public Schools
Lombard Circle, The
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health, The
Los Angeles Unified School District, Office of Boardmember Nick Melvoin (LAUSD 4)
Lyft
Manifest Works
Marathon Communications
Mariposa Development
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Mirman School
Morgan Stanley
Moulton Niguel Water District
Move LA
Multicultural Learning Center
My Friend’s Place
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National University
Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County
One Table
Para Los Niños
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Phoenix LA, The
PlantPrefab
Prism
Remember Us
RethinkEd
River LA
Sequoyah School
SidePorch
Snap, Inc.
SoCalGas
Southern California Edison
Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink)
State of California, Department of Finance
Stratiscope
Students 4 Students
Student Movement of Justice and Opportunity
Swipe Out Hunger
Taft College
Taproot Foundation
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
TreePeople
Tzunu Strategies
United Airlines
University of California, Los Angeles Alumni Affairs/Alumni Association
University of California, Los Angeles, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin Center for History and Policy
University of California, Los Angeles Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California, Shoah Foundation
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
U.S. Department of Justice
Verizon
Walt Disney Company, The
West LA Community Coalition
Whittle and Associates
World Health Organization
Organizations listed do not constitute an endorsement of the Lead LA program or Coro.
These Issue Day Packets 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
- Apply to Lead LA
- Early Decision Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 by 11:59 pm PT ($575 tuition discount and first preference on scholarships)
- Regular Decision Deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2024 by 11:59 pm PT
- Application Guide
- Submit an Interest Form to receive recruitment updates
- Nominate a Candidate
- Program Benefits Guide
- Program Calendar
- Meet the Cohort
- Questions? Contact
Carson Bruno
Vice President of Growth
carson@corola.org - Connect with Carson