Building an empowered community of women leaders
Women in Leadership (WIL) 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.
Participants learn from experienced leadership, mindfulness, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) facilitators, peer coaching, and the broader Women in Leadership and Coro community through Coro’s unique blend of experiential programming to stretch professional and management skills.
Across 60 hours of immersive professional development training, the program runs twice per calendar year (in the Fall, September to December and 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.
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
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.
Coro values the representation of diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views; as such, WIL cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, beliefs, and identities.
Ideal WIL candidates…
are committed to deepening their professional leadership capacity alongside a cohort of fellow women leaders
have been in roles managing staff, projects, and/or budgets
are looking to expand their professional and personal community
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.
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.
WIL is…
A place to explore, experience, and appreciate a diversity of paradigms, experiences, and viewpoints, and engage in productive conflict and discourse.
A place to identify personal and 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 and expand your toolkit of frameworks to enhance your capacity to do so.
Program Cost
Tuition is $3,750 (subsidized from $6,500 thanks to the generous support of our sponsors). Participants may incur additional incidental expenses such as transportation and parking costs.
Employer 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. Coro may also make available payment plans for tuition payments.
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.
Explore the Program Benefits Guide
Coro’s programs deliver deep impact (see more in the “Program Impact & Testimonials” tab above and in the Program Benefits Guide) at a highly subsidized professional development rate. Women professionals face unique challenges in the workplace. Investing in your women team members by expanding their skills, network, and knowledge further builds your capacity to deliver on your organization’s mission.
Supporting team members, either financially and/or with the time and space to participate fully in WIL, yields strong organizational benefits by:
Demonstrating your commitment to the employee, increasing their feeling of engagement, which often leads to higher productivity, loyalty, and retention
Increasing the skills of employees in critical positions that can be incorporated departmentally and instilled in their direct reports
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 WIL.
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.
Organizations listed do not constitute an endorsement of the WIL program, or Coro, by the organization.
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Callie Spaide
Senior Manager, Recruitment & Alumni Relations
callie@corola.org - Connect with Callie