About CORA
Built by someone who's been accountable for the roster.
I'm Taieri Walsh, the founder of CORA. I came up through NDIS support coordination and leading frontline teams, and CORA exists because of a gap I hit directly, not one I read about.
Taieri Walsh
Founder, CORA Workforce. Years in NDIS support coordination and leading frontline teams.
I spent years on the side of this sector that's accountable for, and the one assessing, whether a roster of people can actually do the job, not just whether they've done the training. Support coordination and leading frontline teams meant I was the one working out whether a service could genuinely deliver for the person on the other end, week to week, shift to shift.
A certificate proves someone attended. It says nothing about whether they're capable, and capability is what actually keeps people safe and gives someone a decent day. That gap between "trained" and "capable" is the whole reason I built CORA.
Where it started
A dream management team, and a frontline that couldn't consistently deliver.
I had a few people I supported with complex needs where the provider's management team were an absolute dream to work with. But the complexity of what those people needed meant the service struggled to consistently staff the frontline to match it.
The formal supports were all there. Positive behaviour support plan training, OT input, the paperwork was in order. It just never seemed to help in the moment it was actually needed. And staff turnover was a killer, resetting any progress the team had made, again and again.
In the end I had to look elsewhere for that person's support, when I really didn't want to, because everything above the service was right. It just didn't translate on the ground, to the person sitting across from a worker who didn't know them.
The manual fix
The thing I tried before I built anything.
For a while I tried to fix it myself: collating information and resources about each person into mini resource files and handing them to the team before a placement started.
It helped a lot. But it wasn't remotely sustainable. One coordinator manually briefing a frontline team doesn't scale past that one team, that one person, that one moment in time.
That's what set me off building CORA. I wanted a way to help more providers facing exactly this, and more, not by adding another certificate to the pile, but by making frontline capability visible and buildable, at scale.
A provider is only ever as strong as its least capable frontline worker.
Why CORA works this way
The training itself is the evidence.
CORA assesses capability as people train, so the read comes straight out of how someone actually responds inside the course, in real time, with the reasoning attached.
There's no separate observation layer to construct on top of training that was already happening. It's built on the same scenario-based approach I wished existed when I was the one handing a new worker a resource file and hoping it was enough.
CORA doesn't assess or certify whether a specific worker is competent to deliver a specific support. That judgement sits with your organisation, through supervision and your own sign-off process. CORA builds the knowledge and judgement that decision rests on, and gives your service a clearer, ongoing read of where your workforce is strong and where it isn't.
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