Strengthening the Bay Area
A fellowship for emerging and established changemakers.
Lead Bay Area
Spring 2025: AI and the Future of Leadership
Join a new generation of Bay Area cross-sector leaders for an exciting exploration of AI and leadership and how both will shape our shared future.
Our Spring 2025 Lead Bay Area (LBA) cohort will consider how AI impacts the future of leadership and how we move ourselves, our organizations, and the Bay Area forward. Using Coro’s time-tested leadership training and experiential programming, participants will engage in questions like:
- Leadership: What is required for effective, ethical and equitable leadership with the rise of AI? How might we need to think about our own leadership differently?
- Our organizations: How might AI accelerate impact in our day to day professional contexts? How do our organizations need to prepare?
- The Bay Area’s future: What are potential impacts of AI on the Bay Area’s most pressing challenges like housing, income inequality, and education? How might the use of AI enable us to both strengthen and weaken our economic, civic, and social fabric?
The Bay Area needs curious leaders with the willingness and capacity to navigate complexity and collaborate effectively in our rapidly changing world.
Lead Bay Area brings together mid-level and early-executive leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors for a dynamic, part-time leadership fellowship. Over four months of Coro’s rigorous in-person training, fellows will sharpen their capacity to lead and explore opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI in our organizations and to address our region’s biggest challenges.
After participating, Lead Bay Area Fellows will emerge with:
- Deeper understanding of AI’s role in solving complex regional challenges and accelerating change within their organizations and communities
- Strengthened leadership skills and understanding of effective, ethical and equitable leadership in the digital age
- Dynamic cross-sector network of colleagues dedicated to creating a more innovative, inclusive, and resilient Bay Area
Learn about Lead Bay Area from Claudia Paredes, Managing Director of Civic Leadership, who facilitates the program. The second half of the info-session will be open to you to ask questions you have!
- November 12th, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST. Sign up here.
- December 2nd, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST. Sign up here.
Can’t make it to an info-session? Don’t worry, we will upload a recording shortly after the info-session.
The Lead Bay Area Fellowship engages a cohort of 30 mid-career and early-executive leaders from the private, nonprofit, and government sectors for intensive in-person leadership development seminars and networking.
- A foundational understanding of AI’s impact on key Bay Area issues
- Training and experiential practice in applying Coro’s proprietary leadership tools.
- Access to decision-makers and influencers working in AI and on our region’s most pressing issues across sectors.
- Confidential peer coaching circles to work on real-time leadership challenges, identify areas for growth, and expand capacity to lead change.
- Access and opportunities to connect with Coro’s robust alumni network
Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, and world views represented in programming and program participants. We believe that all Fellows benefit from having many facets of diversity represented in their learning experience.
Lead Bay Area Fellows will reflect the make-up of our region, representing a wide array of backgrounds and lived experiences. Lead Bay Area candidates should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and in personal reflection.
Lead Bay Area Fellows are emerging and established changemakers who:
- Live and/or work in the Bay Area.
- Are eager for personal and professional development.
- Are seeking to expand their professional and personal networks.
- Have a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in their field.
- Influence decision-making and/or have supervisory responsibilities at their organization.
- Want to better understand the issues facing the Bay Area, how AI is being leveraged, and take action to address those issues.
- Are committed to creating a more inclusive and equitable Bay Area.
- Commit to meeting for all scheduled in-person program activities.
Lead Bay Area Fellows will:
- Increase their leadership skills and confidence in navigating professional challenges.
- Break out of their industry and sector silos.
- Gain access to decision makers and influencers across sectors.
- Learn tools to understand and tackle adaptive challenges with a supportive, cross-sector network of peers.
- Prepare to level-up in their careers or for a professional transition.
- Move beyond the headlines to understand the complexity of pressing issues facing the Bay Area.
- Feel empowered to do their individual and collective part to improve the Bay Area.
Session 1: February 20, 2025, 9:30 AM-5 PM
Session 2: February 21, 2025, 9:30 AM-6:30 PM
Session 3: March 14, 2025, 9:30 AM-5 PM
Session 4: April 11, 2025, 9:30 AM-5 PM
Session 5: April 25, 2025, 9:30 AM-5 PM
Session 6: May 16, 2025, 9:30 AM-6:30 PM
Tuition is $4,500. Need-based scholarships are available.
