About Me (And Why This Work Exists)
I spent 20 years inside public sector systems that claimed to care about people while training them to do the opposite.
Not theoretically. Actually inside them.
Intelligence training delivery. Multi-agency reform. Organisational culture work at Customs, Oranga Tamariki, Te Puna Aonui. The kind of work where you're supposed to make change happen inside systems designed to resist it.
I got good at seeing patterns other people couldn't see yet.
How "collaboration" meant endless consultation with no authority.
How "innovation" meant performing change for the next review.
How the gap between what we said we valued and what actually got rewarded was so consistent I could predict the failure before anyone else saw it coming.
That pattern recognition became a problem.
Because I couldn't unsee it. And most people couldn't hear it until after everything had already collapsed.
So I built something that could make those patterns visible sooner - before they hardened into consequences. A translation layer that gives people language for what was shaping their behaviour without turning them into the problem.
That became Nimacor™.
And Cor Coaching is the container that holds the work.
Kia ora, I’m Cordula
How I work
I don't do hero facilitation or glossy frameworks.
My work is soft on people, sharp on nonsense.
Which means:
I trust you already know what's happening - you just need space to name it without consequence
I pay attention to what your nervous system is telling you, not just what the plan says
I stay with the work long enough for things to actually shift, not just look like they've shifted
Some of that happens in walking sessions where thinking doesn't have to perform.
Some in team spaces where patterns can be seen without blame.
Some in quiet one-on-one work where the weight you're carrying can finally land somewhere safe.
The common thread is always conditions.
Not fixing people. Not enforcing alignment.
Creating the conditions where honesty becomes possible, pressure has somewhere to go, and choice shows up before the patterns calcify.
What guides this work
Soft on people. Sharp on nonsense.
The central principle. People aren't the problem - the conditions are. But I will challenge what's not working without apology.
Honour invisible labour
The unseen work of translating, absorbing, holding steady, threading connections across silos - I see it, and this work is built on valuing it.
Create space for honesty
Where truths that matter can be spoken without translation into system-safe language.
Coherence, not control
Real change comes from alignment, not compliance. I help you find what holds when the dust settles.
Grounded in reality. Driven by hope.
No bypassing. No performance. We face what's true while working toward something better.
Creative rebellion and fun
Because meaningful change doesn't have to be joyless. Movement, texture, laughter, and the occasional ritual involving tea or rogue stickers all have a place here.
When You’re Ready…
The world isn't getting simpler. The pressure isn't easing.
The question isn't "Is it the right time?"
It's "What's the cost of just carrying on?"
If something here resonates, you don't need a polished brief or perfect clarity.
Just follow what's stirring.
Because staying human - truly human - in the midst of all this? That's not a nice-to-have.
That's the kind of leadership the future actually needs.