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This project was designed to support a large higher education institution in embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), aligned to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2, across teaching and learning practice. The ambition was not just to raise awareness, but to create a practical, scalable solution that enabled academics to confidently apply ESD principles within their own disciplines.

At the core of the solution was an interactive, SCORM-compliant toolkit built in Articulate Storyline. This provided a structured yet flexible learning experience, allowing academic staff to engage with the content in a way that suited their context, time constraints, and level of prior knowledge. The experience followed a clear journey — introducing key concepts, exploring real-world applications, and then supporting translation into practice.

To bring the content to life, the toolkit integrated a rich blend of media and resources. This included a series of short, focused videos featuring expert perspectives and authentic case studies, helping to ground theory in real teaching environments. Alongside this, downloadable PDFs offered deeper dives into specific themes, providing practical guidance, frameworks, and prompts that academics could take away and use in their own modules and course design.

The course structure itself was intentionally designed around application. Rather than presenting ESD as a standalone concept, the content was framed through familiar academic challenges — such as curriculum design, assessment, and student engagement. This ensured the learning felt immediately relevant and reduced the barrier to adoption. Each section built towards a toolkit of adaptable resources, enabling academics to move from understanding to action with confidence.

A key strength of the project was its focus on usability and integration. The toolkit was designed to fit seamlessly into existing academic workflows, recognising the time pressures and competing priorities faced by staff. Clear navigation, concise content, and practical outputs ensured that engagement translated into meaningful change, rather than remaining as passive learning.

Since implementation, the toolkit has been used across the organisation as a central resource for embedding ESD and supporting the institution’s broader sustainability agenda. It has enabled a consistent yet flexible approach, allowing different faculties and disciplines to interpret and apply SDG 4.2 in ways that are authentic to their subject areas, while still aligning to a shared institutional vision.

Ultimately, the project demonstrates how thoughtfully designed digital learning can move beyond awareness-raising to drive real change in practice. By combining expert insight, applied learning, and accessible resources within a single, cohesive experience, the toolkit supports academics to embed sustainability meaningfully — not as an add-on, but as an integral part of teaching and learning.

This project was created to address a clear need across the higher education sector: while community-engaged learning was gaining momentum as a powerful pedagogical approach, there was no central, accessible resource that brought together good practice in a way academics could actually use. Colleagues were often developing projects in isolation, learning through trial and error, and missing opportunities to draw on the rich experience already present across institutions. The ambition was to change that, and to do so in a way that felt practical, generous, and rooted in the realities of academic life.

Developed in partnership with the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) and the University of Westminster, the toolkit was designed as an open-access, SCORM-compliant experience hosted on a dedicated microsite. This ensured it could be freely accessed by colleagues across the sector, while still offering the structure and interactivity of a considered learning journey. The design placed usability and discovery at its heart, giving academics the freedom to explore in a way that matched their own interests and needs.

At the core of the experience is an exploratory model built around a central conference floor. From here, learners navigate six distinct areas, each focused on a key dimension of community-engaged learning, from initial project set-up through to delivery, partnership, and reflection. This spatial metaphor gives the toolkit a sense of place and progression, mirroring the feel of attending a live event while allowing users to dip in and out on their own terms.

To ground the content in real-world practice, the toolkit features ten 30-minute interviews with leading voices from across the sector. These conversations capture authentic insight, lived experience, and hard-earned lessons, offering academics a direct line to colleagues who have built and delivered community-engaged projects themselves. Accompanying each of the six sections is a dedicated handout PDF, distilling the key themes into practical guidance that academics can take away and apply when designing their own courses and modules.

The toolkit was intentionally framed as academic professional development, positioning community-engaged learning not as an optional extra, but as a meaningful part of course design and pedagogy. By focusing on the practical decisions academics face, such as how to build partnerships, structure assessment, and support students through community-based work, the experience helps translate principle into practice. It respects the time and expertise of its audience, offering depth without demanding a significant upfront commitment.

Since launch, the toolkit has been presented at the national NCCPE conference and accessed by over 50 colleagues from across the sector, with continued uptake as part of the open-access offer. Its reach reflects the appetite that exists for shared, high-quality resources in this space, and the value of bringing good practice together in one accessible place.

Ultimately, the project shows how thoughtful digital design can strengthen a whole community of practice. By combining expert voices, structured exploration, and practical outputs, the toolkit helps academics move from curiosity to confident delivery, and supports community-engaged learning to thrive across the sector.

This project was developed for the University of Westminster to spotlight and share the rich variety of authentic learning happening across its modules and programmes. The ambition was to move beyond written case studies and create something with more immediacy and emotional pull, a resource that could bring good practice to life in the voices of the people delivering and experiencing it. The result is a growing library of storytelling films designed to inspire, inform, and spark new ideas across the academic community.

At the heart of the project is a collection of over 20 short films, each running between three and five minutes and focused on a specific example of authentic learning in action. Every film is built around a case study narrative, weaving together interviews with academic staff and the voices of students who have taken part in the module. This combination is what gives the series its particular power. Hearing directly from students about how a piece of learning landed, what shifted for them, and why it mattered provides a level of insight that no written summary can replicate.

The films were produced with a clear storytelling craft, designed to feel human and grounded rather than polished to the point of feeling corporate. Each one captures the distinct character of the module and the people behind it, allowing different disciplines, pedagogies, and creative approaches to come through in their own voice. Across the series, this creates a vivid picture of what authentic learning looks like in practice, from experiential projects and live briefs through to community partnerships and industry collaboration.

Rather than sitting within a single module or programme, the films were designed as standalone artefacts, freely available and easy to share. They are gathered together in a curated playlist on Vimeo, giving academic colleagues a single destination where they can browse, explore, and draw inspiration from the breadth of practice on show. This approach removes barriers to access and allows the films to travel widely, whether dropped into a team meeting, shared in a professional development session, or picked up by colleagues working on their own module design.

The primary audience for the series is academic staff, and the intent is firmly rooted in professional development and peer-to-peer learning. By showcasing colleagues sharing their own practice openly, the films help to build a culture in which good ideas circulate freely and academics feel encouraged to experiment, adapt, and develop their own approaches. They also serve as a quiet celebration of the craft and creativity that often goes unseen within day-to-day teaching.

Since launch, the collection has been viewed over 5,000 times and has become a well-used resource across the university, helping to promote new ideas and spark conversations about teaching and learning at every level. Its reach reflects both the appetite for this kind of storytelling and the quality of the practice on display.

Ultimately, the project demonstrates how thoughtful, well-crafted film can become a powerful engine for academic development. By putting real voices and real stories at the centre, it turns good practice into something colleagues can see, feel, and take forward into their own work.

This service was built around a question that comes up time and again with corporate and SME clients. How do you build a serious learning capability inside the business without committing to the cost and overhead of a full in-house L&D team? For many organisations, the need is real. There’s training to deliver, knowledge to capture, and people to develop, but the volume doesn’t always justify a head of L&D, a learning designer, and a platform administrator on the payroll. The offer is straightforward. Use us instead. We bring the expertise, the platform knowledge, and the production capability, plugged in flexibly around what your business actually needs.

The service covers the full picture. Setting up the platform, designing the academy, building the courses, managing the day-to-day running of the system, supporting learners, handling reporting, and shaping the wider learning strategy. Whether you’re starting from a blank page or trying to make sense of a setup that’s grown messy over time, the work meets you where you are. For some clients that means launching a new academy from scratch with a clear structure, brand, and content roadmap. For others it means taking over an existing platform, tidying it up, and getting it working properly. Either way, the goal is the same. A learning environment that genuinely supports the business and its people, run by someone who knows what they’re doing.

LearnWorlds sits at the heart of this offer as the platform of choice. That’s not a default position. It’s a view formed over years of working across the full spread of LMS platforms, from Talent and LearnUpon to Teachable, Coursera, Thinkific, and a long list of WordPress LMS plugins. They’ve all got their strengths, and the right platform always depends on the brief, but for most corporate and SME clients LearnWorlds offers the best balance of design flexibility, learner experience, commercial features, and ease of management. It’s the platform we’d back ourselves on, and the one we’d recommend to a client who wants something that works hard from day one and grows with them.

The breadth of the offer reflects years of hands-on experience. Hundreds of online courses have been created across individual and corporate clients, delivered through a wide range of LMS systems. That experience shapes everything from how a course is structured to how a platform is configured, how learners are guided through their journey, and how reporting is set up to give the business meaningful insight rather than noise. Nothing is theoretical. Every recommendation comes from having built it, broken it, fixed it, and learned what works.

The commercial model is intentionally flexible. Some clients work with us on a retainer basis, treating us as their ongoing L&D function. Others use us for specific projects, surge capacity, or platform launches. The shape of the engagement adjusts to suit the business, the budget, and the moment.

Ultimately, this service offers a simple proposition. All the impact of a full L&D function, without the fixed cost.

This project was developed for the Elite Practitioner Club, a multinational training and coaching company working across sectors to deliver business coaching and strategy support. EPC operates with a broad and diverse client base, and the ambition was to build out a comprehensive suite of resources within the Elite Practitioner Club App that members could draw on whenever they needed it. The driver was scale and consistency. Bringing the depth of EPC’s expertise into a format that could be shared across the membership, accessed on demand, and refreshed easily as the business evolved.

The result is a series of 52 avatar videos, produced as a connected suite of resources for the EPC App. The content is shared across all levels of the membership, from partners and directors through to juniors and associates, giving everyone in the network access to the same high-quality coaching and strategy content. This consistency was an important part of the brief. Whether someone is running a global team or stepping into their first client engagement, they’re working from the same foundations and the same shared language of practice.

Synthesia was selected as the platform for the build, with a personal AI avatar created for the Director of EPC. This is what gives the series its distinctive presence. Members are not watching a generic stock avatar deliver content. They’re hearing the voice and seeing the likeness of the Director they already know, scaled across 52 videos in a way that would have been impossible to achieve through traditional filming. It preserves the personality of the brand at the heart of every video while unlocking the production efficiency and longevity that AI avatars offer.

The content itself was co-created with the Director of EPC, working closely to translate the depth of his thinking into scripts that worked on screen. This collaboration was critical. The videos needed to carry the substance of EPC’s coaching and strategy approach, not a watered-down version of it. Each script was then visualised through storytelling, supported by clear business models that members could take away and use in their own client work. This combination ensures the videos are not just informative, but practically useful, giving members frameworks they can apply immediately.

Production brings together the personal avatar, B-roll footage, and graphics into a polished, branded experience. Visual design lifts the content beyond a talking head, reinforcing key points and giving each video its own pace and texture. The result is a suite that feels considered, high-quality, and built for long-term use within the app.

The project was delivered on time and within budget, with feedback from the client speaking for itself. As they put it, “Chris takes your ideas, elevates them to new levels, and delivers high quality work efficiently… I can’t recommend him enough.” That kind of partnership is at the heart of work like this, where the role is not just to produce content, but to genuinely understand the business and help bring its thinking to life.

Ultimately, the project shows how AI avatars, used thoughtfully and paired with strong creative collaboration, can scale the voice of an expert across a whole membership. For EPC, it has turned 52 videos into a living, accessible coaching resource that supports practitioners at every level of the business.

This project was developed for Nuclear Consulting Limited as part of a wider ambition to build clearer, richer pathways into and across the nuclear sector. The brief was not to create a single training course, but to lay the foundations of a learning programme that could support career pathway development from the very first step. As nuclear continues to grow as a strategic priority across the UK and globally, the need for accessible, well-structured entry points into the industry has never been greater. The bootcamp was designed to meet that need, helping people explore the breadth of the sector, find where they fit, and build their understanding across the disciplines that make it work.

The programme is delivered as a series of eight modules, each focused on a key area of the sector. Together they cover the history of the industry, nuclear science, health and safety, environment, security and safeguards, people, communications, and UK and global regulation. This breadth is intentional. Rather than narrowing learners down a single technical track, the bootcamp gives them a panoramic view of the sector, supporting both informed career decisions and the kind of cross-disciplinary literacy that the industry increasingly values.

Each module is brought to life by its own AI avatar character, with eight distinct personalities guiding learners through the content of their respective area. These characters come together within the people module, reinforcing the message that nuclear is, above all, an industry built by and around its workforce. The use of AI avatars was a deliberate creative choice, allowing for a consistent quality of delivery across a large body of content while giving each module its own identity and presence.

The structural design of the bootcamp is exploratory rather than linear. Each module is built around a central pivot, allowing learners to navigate the content in a way that suits their interests, prior knowledge, and pace. This open structure mirrors the nature of the pathways the programme is designed to support. Careers in nuclear rarely follow a straight line, and the learning experience reflects that reality.

Interactivity sits at the heart of the experience, with gamified activities woven throughout. Learners can allocate budget across security and safeguards priorities and see how their decisions play out, work through interactive timelines that bring the history of the sector to life, and tackle a bridge-building game that explores the difference between prescriptive and goal-based regulation. In the people module, they can shape their own sector journey by selecting interests and exploring where those might lead. This active, decision-led approach turns complex subject matter into something genuinely engaging, and gives learners a real sense of agency throughout.

The build process drew on deep SME knowledge from across Nuclear Consulting Limited, translating expert insight into course content, deploying it within an exploratory framework, and refining it based on testing and feedback. The result is a programme that carries the credibility of the sector while offering an experience that feels modern, accessible, and built for the way people learn today.

The bootcamp has been strongly received across the sector, with new pathways continuing to emerge and partners evolving alongside the programme. Energy forms a significant part of our portfolio, and contributing to a project of this scale and ambition has been a real privilege.

Ultimately, the project shows how creative design, strong SME collaboration, and deep interactivity can come together to open up a complex industry. By building a starting point that is both engaging and authoritative, the bootcamp helps more people see themselves in nuclear, and supports the sector to grow the workforce it needs.