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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Access specialist and sector-specific training to shape your future.

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Advance your career with flexible CPD courses, designed for industry

Whether you’re looking for bitesize learning to help you build new skills, or degree-level qualifications to develop deeper expertise, CPD at Leeds will help you: 

  • Gain the confidence to take the next step in your career.
  • Develop the skills you need to be more productive and successful in your work.
  • Pivot your skills into a new or emerging area, or refocus on areas that interest you.
  • Demonstrate your commitment to continuous professional development and stand out from the crowd.

Our CPD courses and training programmes are designed for industry and informed by leading experts across a broad range of disciplines using the latest academic research – ensuring you gain practical skills and insights that give you an immediate impact in the workplace.

Find a CPD course

Choose between online, blended and on-campus CPD courses.

Rankings

Top 100 university in the world

Top 10 most targeted by employers

21st in the UK

Featured courses

  • Getting Started with Data

    Develop the confidence to interpret dashboards,â€Ŋreportsâ€Ŋand data outputs to understand,â€Ŋquestionâ€Ŋand apply data insights in real workplace situations.

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  • Data Management and Governance

    Understand how data works across your organisation, strengthen your data governance and information governance practices, make better decisions, and lead responsibly in a data-driven world.

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  • Design Thinking: Developing Innovative Solutions

    Enhance your creative thinking and problem-solving skills with our two-day Design Thinking course. Learn to identify problems, generate impactful solutions, and refine them for real-world success.

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  • Leading Business Transformation

    A hands-on executive development programme designed for leaders who need to influence organisational priorities, lead sustainable change, and harness digital innovation for immediate business impact.

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Learner profile

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The course content helped me fill in gaps in my professional knowledge. I got a new role as a product manager. During the interview for it, I was able to draw upon what I had learned and that really helped me get the position.

Anju Rajan, Engineering Management