Case Studies

A five-year digital learning ecosystem strategy for CPA Australia

Written by Curio Group | Aug 10, 2026, 9:00:00 AM

The challenge

Continuing professional development must respond to changing professional roles, member expectations and technology. Incremental improvements to individual courses couldn't answer the larger questions facing CPA Australia: what its future offer should contain, how members should navigate development, and what systems and operating model would support it.

CPA Australia needed a connected view of its future learning ecosystem rather than another set of isolated platform or content recommendations.

The approach

Curio combined capability-framework research with learning-product and ecosystem design. The work considered how microcredentials, on-demand assessment, member data and personalised learning could support professional development over time.

Recommendations extended beyond the learner-facing offer to the structures required inside the education division.

What Curio delivered

  • Capability-framework research and analysis
  • Concepts for microcredentials and on-demand assessment
  • A future-state digital learning ecosystem
  • A role for data analytics and machine learning in personalisation
  • Recommendations for renewal of the CPA Program
  • A target operating model for the member education division
  • A five-year strategic roadmap

The result

CPA Australia received an integrated strategy and roadmap connecting its professional-development offer with the technology, data and operating capabilities required to deliver it.