The Climate Resilience Leadership Network activates and strengthens leaders working to build healthier, more climate-resilient communities. This part-time program combines adaptive leadership practices with place-based solutions, enabling you to deepen your understanding of living systems within the Los Angeles Basin. Through immersive hands-on training, you’ll build capacity to foster climate resilience while expanding your leadership skills and professional network. Designed in collaboration with Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles, this program prepares you to navigate complexity and catalyze systemic solutions for a more sustainable future.
This Coro California program is offered in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
The application cycle has closed. Submit an Interest Form to receive recruitment updates.
Program Overview
Program Benefits
Ideal Candidates & Eligibility
Format & Curriculum
Session Cadence
Nearly 70 hours of immersive professional development training from February through June. Sessions include an overnight multi-day opening retreat, monthly leadership forums requiring travel to locations across Los Angeles County, inter-session project work, and a closing symposium. Explore the program calendar for detailed information.
Curriculum Themes
Program content integrates regenerative design principles with climate resilience strategies and time-tested leadership frameworks. Topics include living systems and infrastructure approaches, place-based community engagement, narrative frameworks for inspiring collective action, systems navigation and change leadership, and cross-sector collaboration for whole-systems solutions.
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. 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
The program fee is $375 (subsidized from $9,750 by our generous sponsors).
Need-Based Stipends
Thanks to Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles, need-based stipends are available to offset participation expenses including travel, meals, and materials. Complete relevant questions on the application to be considered.
Employer Assistance
Many participants secure employer support to cover program fees. Organizations benefit when staff develop climate leadership skills and cross-sector networks. Use the Program Benefits Guide to frame conversations about this professional development investment.
Application Process & Key Dates
How to Apply
Complete the online application sharing your climate resilience experience, leadership goals, and commitment to building regional solutions. Review the Application Guide for detailed instructions and tips for crafting strong responses. Applications are reviewed holistically with priority for varied perspectives across climate sectors, organizational types, geographic locations, and lived experiences.
Application Note: In order to be eligible for review by the Selection Committee, applicants must complete a short informational call with Coro prior to the deadline. Schedule a call here.
Application Deadlines
Application portal opens: September 2026
Regular decision deadline: November 2026
Selection Timeline
Applications are reviewed following the application deadline and applicants will be notified within two weeks of the deadline. Program fee payments will be due typically four to six weeks from your decision notification.
