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Executive Leadership Network

Advancing executives who drive organizational transformation

The Executive Leadership Network addresses the unique challenges and isolation executives face while leading complex organizations. This intensive, part-time leadership development program connects senior leaders across sectors to exchange critical perspectives, practice adaptive leadership strategies, and build lasting peer relationships. Through facilitated learning sessions, personalized executive coaching, and peer consultancy, you’ll strengthen your capacity to navigate organizational change and drive meaningful impact. You’ll emerge with enhanced leadership skills, an expanded network, and practical tools to create a culture of trust and innovation within your organization.

This Coro California program is offered in both the Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas.

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Program Overview

  • Strengthen executive capabilities through leadership forums facilitated by Coro experts, focused on navigating organizational change, adaptive leadership, systems thinking, stakeholder analysis, and managing varied teams.
  • Receive personalized coaching, including a comprehensive 360-assessment using the Leadership Versatility Index™, tailored one-on-one sessions, and an actionable development plan targeting key growth areas.
  • Practice adaptive solutions in peer consultancy modules where you tackle real-world leadership challenges, test approaches, and receive confidential feedback in an empowering environment.
  • Build meaningful connections through leadership networking dinners with cohort colleagues and regional leaders, reducing the isolation executives often experience.
  • Join a powerful network of 15,000+ Coro alumni leading across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors.
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Program Benefits

  • Expand your professional network and address the “lone wolf” isolation common among executives by connecting with senior leaders across industries and sectors.
  • Master proven leadership frameworks that increase your capacity to navigate complex organizational challenges, lead through uncertainty, and drive strategic change.
  • Develop communication excellence by learning to create cultures of trust, deliver effective feedback, and facilitate constructive dialogue across organizational levels.
  • Empower your teams by developing skills to inspire open communication and confidence among employees, fostering environments where people engage authentically and effectively.
  • Access to exclusive alumni resources, including continuing education sessions, networking events with regional decision-makers, exclusive digital platforms, and digital credentials.
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Ideal Candidates & Eligibility

  • Hold executive or senior leadership roles with significant organizational decision-making authority and strategic responsibility.
  • Seek continued development and recognize that effective leadership requires ongoing growth, learning, and practice regardless of experience level.
  • Value peer learning and are committed to deepening leadership capacity through authentic engagement with a cohort of senior leaders.
  • Want to expand networks by connecting with other executives from various sectors, industries, and organizational contexts.
  • Commit to full participation (explore the program calendar for program dates and attendance expectations).

Format & Curriculum

Session Cadence

Over fifty hours of immersive professional development across eight sessions from February through June. Sessions include leadership forums, personalized executive coaching, peer consultancy modules, and leadership networking dinners designed to build relationships and community. Explore the program calendar for more information. 

Curriculum Themes

Content addresses the unique challenges of executive leadership, including navigating and initiating organizational change, practicing adaptive leadership during uncertainty, managing and empowering teams, and applying systems thinking to complex challenges. Sessions explore developing inquiry and evaluation skills, creating cultures of trust and innovation, cultivating leadership mindsets for sustained impact, building resilience in high-pressure environments, and understanding connections between physical space, organizational culture, and leadership practice.

Learning Approach

Coro’s experiential methods center active practice over passive listening. You’ll engage in case discussions, leadership simulations, peer exchanges, and reflective exercises led by Coro facilitators and guest experts who bring specialized perspectives on executive leadership challenges and opportunities. Facilitators create space for mindfulness, vulnerability, and authentic connection, fostering psychological safety for adaptive collaboration and innovation.

Program Philosophy

Coro’s approach emphasizes three core principles: active leadership practice as lifelong learning, relating productively across differences in identities and perspectives, and embracing curiosity and vulnerability as foundations for authentic leadership and meaningful change.

Cost & Financial Support

Tuition

Program tuition is $8,750, subsidized from $14,750 by generous donor support. This investment in executive leadership development yields significant returns for individual leaders and their organizations.

Participant Scholarships

Need-based partial scholarships are available. Complete the relevant questions in the program application to be considered for financial assistance.

Organizational Assistance

Organizations benefit substantially when executives develop advanced leadership capabilities and cross-sector networks. Many participants secure employer financial support for tuition. Use the Program Benefits Guide to frame conversations about this strategic professional development investment.

Application Process & Key Dates

How to Apply

Complete the online application sharing your executive experience, leadership development goals, and commitment to peer-based learning. Review the Application Guide for detailed instructions and tips for crafting strong responses. Applications are reviewed holistically with priority for varied perspectives across sectors, industries, organizational types, and leadership contexts.

Application Deadlines

Application portal opens: September 2026

Early decision deadline: November 2026

​​(includes automatic discount, early consideration for scholarship and cohort selection)

Regular decision deadline: January 2027

Selection Timeline

Applications are reviewed following each application deadline, and applicants notified within two weeks of the deadline. Program tuition payments are due typically four to six weeks from your decision notification (payment plans are available).

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