Build your own project academy.
Career pathways, competence frameworks, and bespoke training — designed around your sector, your structure, and your project processes. Typical ROI: 40:1.
Why leading organisations build their own.
Generic training takes you only so far. Organisations like Shell and the UK Government have built their own project academies because the returns are real — and measurable. We typically see ROI in excess of 40:1. £40 back for every £1 invested.
An academy gives you something off-the-shelf can't: development built around the project environment of your sector, career paths aligned to your management structures, and pathways to APM qualifications and organisational accreditations — all integrated with your in-house processes.
What goes into an academy.
A partnership approach. We co-build with you across whichever components your community needs — training, frameworks, assessment, accreditation, and the technology to run it all.
Competency frameworks
Technical and behavioural frameworks, role-profiled across project levels. Built on our CEMS platform or yours.
Assessment processes
Structured ways to understand strengths and identify development needs across the community.
Bespoke training
Often blending APM standards with in-house specialist functions and project procedures.
Leadership development
Building on core PM skills to grow project leaders and sponsors with strategic capability.
APM qualification pathways
Routes to PFQ, PMQ, PPQ, and Chartered Project Professional — embedded into the career framework.
Configured LMS
A learning management system to host training content, project standards, and cohort tracking.
Shell — ten years of partnership.
Shell's global project academy has used our Competence Evidence Management System for over a decade — supporting the assessment and accreditation of more than 4,000 project professionals worldwide.
We've also enabled Shell to gain organisational Chartership Recognised Assessments — providing significantly shorter pathways to ChPP for their teams.
Typical ROI
PMs on Shell's CEMS
PLP graduates supported
Online Profiling partnership
A partnership, not a procurement.
Building an academy is a multi-year commitment. We co-design and co-run with our clients — minimising external dependency over time, training in-house administrators, and handing over ownership where it matters.
Common starting points
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A capability diagnostic across your project community
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A Discovery Phase to scope the academy and de-risk procurement
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An existing programme audit, looking for gaps and quick wins
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A pilot cohort to prove the model before wider rollout
The components, individually.
An academy combines several of our other practices. Each can also be delivered as a stand-alone solution.
Solution
Competency Management
Our CEMS platform and APM-licensed frameworks for defining, assessing, and managing competence.
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APM Accreditations
From PFQ to ChPP. We embed APM qualification pathways into your career framework.
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Development Programmes
Bespoke training in leadership, advanced PM, and project sponsorship, integrated with your processes.