Professional Development & CPD

The learning platform for professional development

Build courses and learning pathways.

Manage events and bookings.

Give staff career portfolios they keep forever.

A learner-centric LXP that's  intuitive

No clunky enterprise software. No training manuals. A system people actually want to use.

The reality at most organizations

Multiple departments run training. Opportunities arrive via scattered emails. Staff miss development that could advance their careers.

No visibility into who's developing what skills. Career conversations lack evidence.

What you need instead

No visibility into who's developing what skills. Career conversations lack evidence.

Leaders see development patterns and equity gaps. Development aligns with strategic priorities.

A complete learning experience platform

Everything you need to deliver professional development, track skills, and support career growth

Discover learning

Staff browse and search all learning offerings across the institution. Courses, pathways, events, workshops - everything in one catalogue. Filter by topic, department, format, or career pathway. Find relevant development in seconds, not buried in email chains.
The experience is designed around the learner. Clear categories. Useful descriptions. Visual previews. Personalised recommendations based on role and interests. Staff discover opportunities they didn't know existed.

Course authoring

Three ways students capture and evidence learning:

A visual editor that L&D professionals can use immediately. Combine content pages, videos, quizzes, reflection exercises, and file uploads into structured courses. Import SCORM packages from existing content libraries - they work seamlessly alongside native content.
For learners: a visual pathway showing exactly where they are. Content and activities sit together. They work through guidance, then exercises, then reflection. Completion tracks automatically. Progress feels tangible.
For admins: no technical skills required. No waiting for IT. Create a course in the morning, launch it in the afternoon. Update content any time and changes appear instantly for all learners.

Pathways and programmes

Three ways students capture and evidence learning:

Group individual courses into coherent programmes. Add required events. Include external activities and workplace learning. Create multi-level progressions (foundation, intermediate, advanced) with prerequisites.
Let students curate and showcase their best work. Ideal for creative programs, capstones, and career preparation.
Learners see their journey. What they've completed. What comes next. How today's activity connects to their broader development. Progress persists across courses and sessions.
Ideal for
Leadership development programmes, new manager transitions, induction pathways, compliance training sequences, professional accreditation preparation

Events and bookings

Full event management built in. Create events with descriptions, dates, locations, and capacity limits. Staff browse, search, and book with one click. Automated reminders reduce no-shows. Attendance tracking records completion.
Events connect to pathways. Attend the required workshops, complete the online modules, earn the credential. Everything tracked in one place.
A unified calendar brings together courses, events, and deadlines. Staff see everything relevant to their development in one view.

Career portfolios

Every completed course, attended event, and earned credential flows into a personal career portfolio. Staff capture additional evidence: external training, conferences, workplace projects, professional achievements.
The portfolio provides evidence for performance reviews and promotion discussions. It documents pedagogical growth for teaching staff. It records CPD hours for professional compliance.
Staff keep access forever
Connect a personal email and the portfolio stays with them throughout their career, demonstrating your investment in their development even after they move on.

Staff skills profiles

Staff build skills profiles showing their capabilities, qualifications, and development. Skills come from completed courses, earned credentials, verified competencies, and self-declared expertise. Each skill links to evidence.
Leaders see skills distribution across teams and departments. Identify expertise for projects. Spot gaps before they become problems. Plan development strategically based on actual capability data, not assumptions.
For professional staff, map skills to professional standards and track progression toward advanced practice or chartered status.

Digital badges and credentials

Built-in badge authoring. Design badges, set award criteria, connect to pathways. When staff complete requirements, badges issue automatically. Staff share credentials on LinkedIn or include in portfolios.
Integrates with OpenBadgeFactory for organisations using external credentialing systems. Badges are verifiable, portable, and recognized.
Ideal for
Programme completion, competency achievement, compliance certification, teaching excellence recognition, leadership development milestones

Performance development reviews

Use workbooks to structure your annual review process. Staff set objectives, document achievements, reflect on development needs, and connect goals to available learning opportunities. Managers review and add feedback. Everything captured in one place.
PDR evidence links directly to career portfolios. Completed training, earned credentials, and documented achievements flow into reviews automatically. Career conversations have substance.
Westminster runs their annual Performance Development Reviews through Potentially - connecting objectives, development activities, and career conversations in one integrated workflow.

Insight Compass for professional development

Staff assess themselves against competency frameworks: leadership capabilities, technical skills, professional standards. They receive immediate, personalised feedback showing strengths, development areas, and specific learning recommendations from your catalogue.
Add 360-degree feedback. Managers, peers, or direct reports provide structured input on the same framework. Staff see how self-perception compares to others' observations. Development priorities become clear.
Deploy at onboarding, before promotion, during performance cycles, or as regular development check-ins. Track how capabilities develop over time across individuals and teams.

Social learning

Coming soon: Staff capture learning moments from conferences, projects, or everyday work and share them with colleagues. Teams learn from each other. Expertise becomes visible. Development happens through connection, not just courses.
Learning becomes social. Someone attends a conference and shares key insights. A team solves a problem and documents what worked. Knowledge flows across the organisation instead of staying siloed.

HR system integration

CoreHR integration brings your people data into Potentially. Sync staff records, departmental structures, and line manager relationships automatically. No manual data entry. No duplicate records. Staff see relevant development based on their role and team.
Line manager data flows in, so managers see their team's development activity. Assign learning. Track completion. Support career conversations with real evidence.
We also integrate with other HR systems. Talk to us about your specific setup.
When the system is pleasant to use, adoption happens.

Good UX is not a feature
it’s the foundation

Students build richer portfolios. Faculty engage with the data. Completion rates go up. The evidence you need for accreditation, TEF, or graduate outcomes actually exists because people use the platform

For students

A system they’ll actually use

Most institutional systems feel like institutional systems. Cluttered interfaces. Confusing navigation. Students do the minimum required and disengage.

Potentially is different. Clean, modern, visual. Students see their skills growing over time. Completing portfolio entries feels satisfying, not tedious. The mobile app captures learning in the moment. Students engage because the experience respects their time.

For faculty

Intuitive tools

You shouldn't need training to tag a course to your graduate attributes.
Set up a placement workbook. Or review student portfolios.

The faculty experience is just as considered as the student experience. Tagging takes a minute. Workbook templates get you started immediately. Review dashboards show who needs attention. Faculty spend time on feedback, not fighting the system.

How it works for everyone

For staff

Browse all training across departments. Search by career pathway or interest. Book events with one click. Work through courses at your own pace with clear visual progress. Build a career portfolio with evidence for advancement. Own your development story.

Discover
Learn
Grown
Explore

For L&D professionals

Build courses and pathways without technical help. Publish events and manage bookings without spreadsheets. Set up automated reminders and workflows without IT tickets. See engagement data and act on it. Spend time on learning strategy, not system administration.

Create
Manage
Iterate
Explore

For leadership

See development patterns across the organisation. Identify equity gaps before they become career barriers. Connect development to strategic priorities: EDI, teaching quality, research excellence. Evidence your investment in people with data that's actually reliable because staff actually use the system.

Visibility
Insight
Explore

Who uses this

Professional development academies for all staff. Teaching excellence programs for faculty. Research development for academics. Leadership pathways for aspiring managers. Performance review integration.

Westminster uses Potentially for their Professional Development Academy and Performance Development Reviews, supporting 3,000+ staff.

Faculty tag courses once. Skills appear in student profiles automatically. Implement graduate attributes at scale without
manual data entry.

Students capture learning moments from anywhere. AI helps them articulate what they learned and maps it to your frameworks. Evidence accumulates without anyone chasing it.

The Continuous Learner Record unifies curricular and co-curricular learning. Students share it with employers and keep access after graduation.

University staff development

Professional development academies for all staff. Teaching excellence programs for faculty. Research development for academics. Leadership pathways for aspiring managers. Performance review integration.

Westminster uses Potentially for their Professional Development Academy and Performance Development Reviews, supporting 3,000+ staff.

Membership organisations

Professional development academies for all staff. Teaching excellence programs for faculty. Research development for academics. Leadership pathways for aspiring managers. Performance review integration.

Westminster uses Potentially for their Professional Development Academy and Performance Development Reviews, supporting 3,000+ staff.

Employers and apprenticeships

Professional development academies for all staff. Teaching excellence programs for faculty. Research development for academics. Leadership pathways for aspiring managers. Performance review integration.

Westminster uses Potentially for their Professional Development Academy and Performance Development Reviews, supporting 3,000+ staff.

Content syndication

Professional development academies for all staff. Teaching excellence programs for faculty. Research development for academics. Leadership pathways for aspiring managers. Performance review integration.

Westminster uses Potentially for their Professional Development Academy and Performance Development Reviews, supporting 3,000+ staff.

Platform capabilities

Capability
What it does
Learning catalogue
Browse and search all courses, pathways, and events in one place
Course authoring
Visual editor for self-paced learning with content, quizzes, reflections, SCORM
SCORM support
Import existing SCORM packages alongside native content
Pathways
Multi-course programs with prerequisites and visual progress

See it for yourself in
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We'll show you the platform configured for your context:
your LMS, your frameworks, your priorities.

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