sharing our passion for learning

The Foundation

The Professional Development Foundation was created as a network of practitioners and academics in 1975 to:

It operates through:

All research by the Professional Development Foundation is independent and is shared with participants and where appropriate, published. Participants are free to use the results of the research.

The Professional Development Foundation exists as a non-profit making trust and does not engage in commercial activity.

Its coat of arms above symbolically represents networking professionals together in shared continuous learning through enquiry.