Women in Leadership Program is sponsored by Coro California. A part-time program empowering women and women-identifying professionals to deepen their impact as managers, team leaders, and community leaders in the Greater Los Angeles Area and San Francisco Bay Area.

Women in Leadership Program in California | Coro California Empowering women leaders to advance their careers with confidence Women in Leadership empowers women and women-identifying professionals to deepen their impact as managers, team leaders, and community leaders. This part-time program offers essential skills, a robust network, and the confidence to navigate workplace challenges and accelerate your career.

Whether your goals are building your professional toolkit, strengthening strategic decision-making capacity, or expanding your influence, this program delivers practical frameworks grounded in the challenges and opportunities facing women leaders. You’ll engage in hands-on learning, expert-led discussions, and interactive sessions about navigating organizational dynamics, driving change, and leading with influence.

This Coro California program is offered in both the Greater Los Angeles Area and San Francisco Bay Area. Currently Accepting Applications Regular Decision Deadline: Ideal Candidates & Eligibility Application process & key dates Strengthen leadership skills through forums, tailored to the unique contributions and challenges of women in the workplace.

Practice proven frameworks for managing teams, negotiation, communication, and systems thinking. Make your value visible by developing tools to lead effectively, advance your career, and create cultures of trust through enhanced communication, negotiation, and feedback skills.

Lead Coro Conversations in cohort-driven explorations of workplace challenges, increasing your professional and leadership capacities through collaborative inquiry and external stakeholder engagement. Develop skills in group dynamics, time management, and decision-making.

Practice adaptive solutions in peer consultancy modules that tackle real-world leadership challenges and test approaches, and receive confidential feedback in an empowering environment. Build meaningful relationships by expanding your professional network in community with women eager to collaborate with, learn from, and support each other across sectors and industries.

Expand your professional network of women working to activate positive change in their organizations and regions, joining Coro’s 15,000+ alumni community. Navigate challenges effectively by mastering leadership frameworks and skills that increase your capacity to advance your career and drive organizational impact.

Develop communication excellence by deepening awareness of how behaviors and communication practices build or erode trust, deliver effective feedback, and negotiate successfully across varied workplace situations. Enhance strategic thinking through inquiry and critical thinking skills, stakeholder analysis, and systems thinking applicable to complex professional challenges.

Access to exclusive alumni resources including continuing education sessions, networking events with regional decision-makers, digital platforms, and digital credentials. Ideal Candidates & Eligibility Are mid-career women professionals seeking leadership training to accelerate careers and deepen impact within organizations and communities.

Have experience managing staff, projects, or budgets, and are ready to strengthen leadership capabilities. Seek professional growth and are committed to deepening capacity through authentic engagement with a cohort of peers from varied backgrounds. Value relationship building and want to develop a professional network of women leaders working across business, government, nonprofit, and community sectors.

Live or work in the Greater Los Angeles or the Bay Area and are positioned to apply learning immediately within professional and civic contexts. Commit to full participation (explore the program calendar for dates and attendance expectations). Over 60 hours of immersive professional development in 10 sessions (5 pairs of back-to-back days) spanning four months.

Cohorts run twice annually: Fall and Spring. Explore the program calendar for more information.

Sessions explore the intersection of identity and leadership practices to expand professional capacity: managing teams effectively, negotiation and communication strategies, systems thinking and organizational analysis, mindfulness as a leadership practice to build self and social awareness, inquiry and critical thinking methods, trauma-informed leadership practices, stakeholder analysis and relationship building, and creating workplace cultures that foster trust and innovation.

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.

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. Program tuition is $3,750 (subsidized from $7,750 by generous donors). Coro provides partial, need-based scholarships and payment plans to qualified applicants.

Complete the relevant scholarship questions in the application to be considered for financial assistance. Payment plan options are available. Organizations benefit substantially when professionals develop 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 Complete the online application sharing your professional experience, leadership goals, and commitment to personal and professional growth.

Review the Application Guide for detailed instructions and tips for crafting strong responses. Applications are reviewed holistically with priority for varied perspectives across sectors, organizational types, geographic locations, and lived experiences.

Application portal opens: May 7 2026 Early decision deadline: June 23 2026 (includes automatic $250 discount and early consideration for scholarship and cohort selection) Regular decision deadline: July 21 2026 Applications are reviewed following each deadline and applicants notified within two weeks of the deadline. Program tuition payments are due typically four to six weeks from your decision notification.

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