About Us

Totara began as an ambitious startup in 2011, giving people the freedom to shape their e-learning choices through a democratic ethos. Now we’re helping evolve talent development around the globe, with our products used by thousands of employers to train millions of users. Customers range from small not-for-profits to the largest multinational corporations, a testament to our value, flexibility and scalability.

Totara helps Amazon, the world’s biggest e-commerce platform, use their Alexa Academy to train up to 300,000 retail staff. easyJet, one of Europe’s leading airlines, adapted Totara to deliver a tailored onboarding experience for all new employees. Totara plays a vital role across the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), including 350,000 nurses learning new skills to address the Covid 19 crisis.

Forward-focused organizations like these use our Talent Experience Platform to add layers to their culture of success. Directed learning and certification (Totara Learn) gives a robust skills base. Collaboration in the flow of work (Totara Engage) unlocks the network effects of knowledge. And as organizations mature, advanced performance management (Totara Perform) applies people’s full potential to achieving strategic goals.

Everything’s geared towards solutions that scale and evolve. To us, and our customers, Totara powers the adaptive growth needed for an ever-changing world.

Totara plants a tree for every customer.

Totara is working with Trees That Count to mitigate our climate impact and help protect New Zealand’s biodiversity. We’re doing this by funding 3,000 native Tōtara tree plantings (one for each of our customers so far) on the Banks Peninsula of the South Island, and will keep adding a new tree for every future customer.

As these beauties grow they’ll absorb more than 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next century – to give you an idea, 3 native trees can offset a year’s worth of household electricity consumption.

Trees That Count are focused on planting the right tree, in the right place, for the right purpose. This lines up with how we try to approach our software development, and the effect we want to have on the world as a forward-focused company. A good thing all round!