About The WebStudy Foundation
We’ve sat in both seats. That’s why we built a room where nobody’s exposed alone.
Who We Are
The WebStudy Foundation is a woman-led nonprofit based in Mandeville, Louisiana, incorporated in 2017 and recognized as a 501(c)(3) in 2019. Gisele Larose, Executive Director and Co-Founder, has worked on both the employer side and the educator side of workforce development, so she knows what each side is missing from the other. Curt (Joseph) Corbi, COO/CFO/CIO and Co-Founder, helps lead the foundation’s operations, finances, and technology.
Together they bring more than 20 years of building and operating a higher-education technology company, and both are edtech investors, so they see the work as both operators and funders. We're not a data firm or a survey vendor, and we're not another convening. You don't need more data or more meetings; you need the people who hold the pieces to see them together.
The Insight
No single organization sees the whole system. Employers see one piece. Educators see another. Workforce boards, economic developers, and funders each see a different slice. Each perspective is valuable. None is complete. So programs and openings get built without seeing each other, and nobody finds out until the money's spent.
The smarter you are within your vantage point, the more convincing your partial view feels. That’s what makes the problem so persistent and so invisible to the people closest to it.
We started WebStudy Foundation because we'd stood in more than one of those seats, and we knew what it costs to find out too late.
We don't run another meeting about alignment. We help your region catch the mismatch between what's being taught and what's being built, and decide together what to do about it, before it costs you.
Why each seat can trust us
Conveners: We help you move with the room, not ahead of it, so you're never the person who bypassed your peers.
Educators and employers: Our co-founders have worked on both the employer side and the educator side. We know what each side is missing from the other.
Funders: Both co-founders are edtech investors. We think about where the money lands, and we leave when the region owns the work.
Our Design Partner
Todd Erickson, principal of Collaboration Arts, has spent two decades designing and facilitating cross-sector conversations that bring diverse perspectives into the open, surface assumptions and differences, and help participants discover possibilities they could not see independently. His earlier work with CoVision included the Unified New Orleans Plan (2006–2007), designed by AmericaSpeaks, where the team integrated rapid sense-making methods. CapacityWorks™ is adapted from Collaboration Arts' participatory framework. Todd's work has been influenced by Lenny Lind, co-author with Karl Danskin of Virtuous Meetings.
Built as a Solution Shop
We don't run things from the outside the way a consulting firm does. Your region builds its own direction, not a consultant's report.
Because the work happens in a virtual room, real, shared decision-making is affordable for regions that couldn't otherwise arrange it, including the regions working hardest to reach workers and learners the traditional system has overlooked.
How It Works
A System Snapshot™ shows what every seat sees.
Structured virtual sessions guide understanding; they don't expose or blame.
Your region leaves with a mandate it owns.
