EventsPRO™ is CEF’s official Continuous Professional Development (CPD) portfolio of training courses – providing an affordable, world class professional education.

Each course is designed by subject matter experts, from industry practitioners to university professors, to develop the current and future generation of event and festival professionals.

EventsPRO™ PROGRAM

EventsPRO™ is split into four programs: Foundational, Specialist, and Challenge Courses, and the Executive Leaders program.

EventsPRO™ OVERVIEW

  • Courses range from 5, 10, 20 hours to 1, 2 and 3 day workshops, retreats and forums

  • Online, self-paced, open for 12 months to complete

  • Interactive, easy to digest video-based content to consume on the go!

  • Designed by subject matter experts - a collaboration between leading industry practitioners and university professors

  • Affordable, world class professional education

  • Integrates CEF’s high quality resources - insights, intelligence, research, and articles from CEF’s official journal: Event Management Journal

  • CEF Certified, with ‘Certificate of Completion’.

EventsPRO™
LEARNING APPROACH

We draw on decades of experience designing and developing some of the world’s leading events and festival education and programs — in person and online — to meticulously curate engaging, authentic, and meaningful professional development using the these learning approach and methods.

AVAILABLE AND FORTHCOMING COURSES

THEORY OF CHANGE

This is CEF’s first ‘Foundational’ course - opening 30 September 2025.

Unlock the true potential of your event with a theory of change. This powerful framework helps event owners and organisers define the impact they want to create and build a clear roadmap to get there.

By identifying barriers, enablers, and assumptions, it equips you with the strategies and tactics needed to maximise benefits for both people and places.

A theory of change doesn’t just guide your planning — it tells a compelling story about why your event exists and the difference it makes. It’s your masterplan for impact, sitting at the heart of every decision you make.

That’s why CEF chose to develop this course first — to help you design events with purpose, clarity, and measurable results.