Inspiring Leaders
The CPD booking platform behind an East Midlands education partnership
Colleagues across a regional partnership needed a single, reliable place to find and book professional development, and the team behind it needed a single place to run every event, register and report. Scattered spreadsheets and manual admin had to become one platform that could do both.
Front of house
The half colleagues see.
One place colleagues can trust: search, filter and browse every CPD opportunity across the partnership, then book in a few clear steps.
Two ways to find the right session
From browse to booked
What colleagues can do
- Sign up once, then book any session across the partnership in a few clear steps
- See, change or cancel any booking from a personal account
- Set the CPD areas that matter to them against their own account
- Join the waiting list on a full session and get the place as soon as one frees up
- A confirmation for every booking, so there's no doubt a place is secured
The engine room
The half that does the work.
The booking experience is only half of it. Behind it sits a custom admin platform the team runs the whole partnership from. Reporting, people, events and registers, in one place.
What the team runs it with
- A custom admin dashboard with in-depth reporting across events, bookings and attendance
- User management for the whole partnership, tied to multi-academy trusts (MATs) and schools
- Event and series management, created and scheduled end to end
- Live registers and attendance tracking for every session
- Automatic waiting lists that release a place the moment one frees up
- A custom integration with their WordPress site, keeping contacts and email marketing in step
Under the hood
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Postgres
- Drizzle ORM
- Tailwind CSS
- Server actions
Rob has played a key role in helping us design and develop our new CPD Booking Platform, which has transformed the way colleagues across our partnership engage with and book their professional development. Our platform provided an end-to-end booking process which is simple, streamlined, and user-led, giving users full control over browsing, booking, and managing their CPD.
Throughout the development process, Rob has been a pleasure to work with: responsive, adaptable, and always open to feedback. He has taken the time to understand our needs and has been proactive in refining the platform to ensure it meets the needs of both our internal team and our wider partnership.
The finished product is sleek, intuitive, and perfectly on brand, offering a professional and user-friendly interface that reflects our organisation's identity. Functionally, the platform is clear, efficient, and easy to navigate, making the experience seamless from sign-up to booking confirmation.
We're delighted with the outcome and truly value Rob's expertise, attention to detail, and commitment to developing a platform that meets our needs.
Booked and run in one place
Inspiring Leaders runs CPD across a regional partnership of multi-academy trusts in the East Midlands: Leaders Learning Exchange cohorts, Connect Days, and international study visits. Colleagues book it and the team runs it from the same platform, from a first sign-up to the register on the day.
What’s shipped since launch
The platform hasn’t stood still. Since going live we’ve added deeper reporting for the admin team, series booking so colleagues can join a whole programme of events in one go, and a closer tie between the platform and the partnership’s email marketing. The team can now tailor the emails the platform sends, and there’s more on the roadmap.
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