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Since 1989

We have run a season every year for over three decades

PD Consortium began as a live seminar series for accountants in Toronto and moved online, where it has stayed. The format changed. The commitment did not: there has not been a year without a season.

The record

Firms are not locked in, and they re-book anyway

The figure worth weighing is the renewal rate. No contract holds a firm in place, so a season has to earn its re-booking on its own merits every summer. Some of the firms in the group today were in it at the start.

1989
Running since
270+
Courses delivered
6,000+
Professionals accredited by CPA Ontario
95%+
Of firms renew each year

What we think this work is

Five things we run the programme by

Learning should be live and human
Real presenters, real questions, real engagement. A back-catalogue of recordings ticked off in the background is not the same thing, and everyone involved knows it.
Your firm is not a training department
Planning, compliance and reporting are our job. If our work adds work at your end, we have done it wrong.
Together is cheaper and better
Pooling a season across firms means even a small practice gets a programme it could not fund alone. That is the entire reason a consortium exists.
Evidence should be fair
Participation is human and imperfect. Records reflect that honestly and can always be reviewed, because the point is evidence rather than enforcement.
Relationships outlast transactions
Retention matters more to us than any single sale. Renewals are earned by being useful for a whole season, not by a contract.

Who runs it

Led by practitioners, not administrators

Curriculum and firm relationships sit with the people named here. Behind them, Attendell provides the delivery platform, the session operations and the attendance reporting, with the team and systems that run programmes for other consortia too.

So a firm gets a named person who knows its practice, and an organisation behind them large enough that no season depends on any one diary.

Marc TurnerProgramme Director
Runs delivery, reporting and the commercial side of the consortium.
Roger MehtaCurriculum Lead
Builds each season, sources and briefs the presenters, and holds the firm relationships.

How the programme is delivered

Curation sits with us, delivery sits with Attendell

PD Consortium builds the curriculum, books the presenters and holds the relationship with your firm. Attendell, a professional development provider, runs the live sessions, reconciles attendance and produces the reporting your firm sees.

It is a division of labour that has held for years: judgement about what a practice needs to learn is a different discipline from running sessions and reconciling records for hundreds of people.

The details

Entity
PD Consortium Inc., registered in Ontario
Firms
23 member firms across Ontario
Delivery
Attendell, attendell.com
Requirements
Set and audited by CPA Ontario

Talk to us about the coming season

Fifteen minutes is usually enough. Tell us how many people at your firm carry the obligation and which areas matter most, and we will come back with the shape of a season and a price per person.

Book a call about next season

Or email admin@pdconsortium.com with your firm and headcount, or call +1 (416) 306-2072.