This article considers the role of learning validation and accreditation systems in relation to the demand for more co-creative quality assurance solutions in corporate and organisational learning management. It explores the need to emphasise the organisational demand side in the management of quality new learning by applying a more holistic development perspective. It looks at the subject of credit frameworks from the point of view of both providers and consumers of learning programmes and develops a more radical four dimensional management perspective that extends the reach of considerations beyond the two dimensions of academic and professional practice.

It introduces a leadership inspired career based accreditation system that engages with the middle and upper tiers in organisational learning. It provides this as a basis for developing a methodology and a forward thinking guideline for learning portfolio practice and quality assurance accreditation management in the organisational setting.