Professional growth shouldn’t be messy, confusing, or stressful. Yet for most professionals, CPD feels exactly like that: scattered, last-minute, and hard to track. The ICPD Framework is a clean, simple, step-by-step system designed to help you plan, learn, and reflect on your professional development—efficiently, intentionally, and confidently.
The ICPD Framework works for any professional, at any stage of their career:
Early-career practitioners seeking clarity
Self-funded professionals wanting structured growth
Managers and supervisors guiding teams through CPD
It’s adaptable, practical, and designed to fit your real-world workload.
By using the ICPD Framework, you access a complete CPD toolkit:
Planning modules for clarity and direction
Learning templates for structured skill development
Reflection guides for consolidation and reporting
Supplementary booklets for managers and supervisors
Everything organised into a simple, easy-to-use system
Simple: No unnecessary jargon or complex processes
Structured: Step-by-step guidance for every stage of CPD
Flexible: Works for any role, industry, or experience level
Supportive: Includes tools for supervisors and managers to guide their teams
We’re Sarah and Sonya—colleagues, friends, and co-founders of the Institute for CPD (ICPD).
Like many professionals, we cared deeply about developing our skills and doing CPD well. But we didn’t belong to a professional association—and that created a different problem altogether.
There were no clear requirements.
No guidance.
No framework to follow.
We were expected to manage our own development, choose our own learning, and make sense of it all on our own. Learning opportunities were everywhere, but there was no structure to help us decide what mattered, how it connected, or how to reflect in a way that showed real progress.
CPD felt fragmented, inefficient, and harder than it needed to be.
We knew there had to be a better way.
So we spent the next two years designing a structured, supportive approach to continuing professional development—one built specifically for self-directed professionals.
ICPD is grounded in clear frameworks for planning, learning, and reflection, supported by practical tools that help professionals develop with intention rather than guesswork.
Our belief is simple:
You shouldn’t need a professional association to do CPD properly.
ICPD exists to give professionals clarity, structure, and confidence in their development—on their own terms.
If you care about growing in your profession and want a smarter, more purposeful way to approach CPD, you’re in the right place.
And if you ever have questions, feedback—or even a compliment—we’d love to hear from you.