Enterprises start with fortuitous meetings.
When Shirley Munoz and Norma Tan co-founded Cora Group, they did so with intent, after many deep exchanges about their personal histories, and the intergenerational and cultural influences shaping their self-development and career pursuits.
For both, coming of age was about negotiating differences between what was understood and expected of them within the home, and outside of it. Coming to terms with those differences was a challenging and ongoing aspect of their lives.
This shared point of reference
was the starting point for exploring possibilities for working together to start a company.
Both had dedicated their professional lives to advancing educational excellence and equity, Shirley as a curriculum designer and bilingual educator, and Norma as an educational psychologist and researcher.
As a company they felt they could leverage their complementary expertise to help organizations learn through diverse perspectives. Solving problems in this way would enhance individual and collective intelligence and creativity.
Moreover, using a comprehensive and systematic approach to workforce development would give organizations a competitive advantage in an environment of rapid change and increasing complexity, due to accelerating technological advances and globalization.
Shirley Munoz, EdD
Co-Founder
Norma Tan, PhD
Co-Founder