Learn with Stephen Jenner
Explore benefits management with the author of the official guide and connect the guidance with the challenges you face at work.
Meet your tutorAPMG Managing Benefits · Foundation & Practitioner
Managing Benefits.
Learn with the author.
Turn the promise of change into value you can demonstrate. Learn with Stephen Jenner, author of Managing Benefits, and build the confidence to ask what should improve, who owns it and how you will know.
Practical teaching, an exam-inclusive course package and a wider KBC learning community. Start with the certification level and funding route that fit your goals.
Learn with the authorStephen Jenner
Your agreed course packageExams included
Outside apprenticeship eligibility50% IPC support
Eligible apprenticeship routeFully funded
Four reasons to choose KBC
Understand the value.
Build the experience.
An exam-inclusive package
Your written offer names the Foundation and/or Practitioner examination included in your course fee, so your route is clear before you enrol.
Explore the qualificationsLondon Masterclass events
Bring ideas into conversation with expert speakers, tutors and fellow professionals from across the KBC community.
Explore KBC eventsRochester Cathedral graduation
Celebrate your achievement in Kent’s historic Rochester Cathedral, with arrangements confirmed for eligible graduating learners.
Celebrate your progressMeet your teacher
Stephen Jenner.
Insight from the source.
Bring your questions about business cases, benefits ownership and demonstrating results to the person who wrote the guide.
Stephen is the author of Managing Benefits and Managing Portfolios, and co-author of Management of Portfolios. He is Chief Examiner for APMG’s Managing Benefits and Managing Portfolios certifications.
His experience includes senior UK Civil Service roles, international consultancy and professional education. Learn to connect benefits thinking with the decisions people make before, during and after a change initiative.
Watch Stephen’s APMG interview on portfolio management and benefits
Choose your certification route
Build understanding.
Then put it into practice.
Managing Benefits offers two distinct APMG certification levels. KBC helps you select the right starting point and confirms the exact examination or examinations in your written offer.
Understand the guidance
Managing Benefits Foundation
Develop your knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of benefits management, including the people and documents that support it.
A useful starting point for professionals who want a shared language for discussing the value of change.
Apply and tailor the guidance
Managing Benefits Practitioner
Develop your ability to use the guidance in a scenario, adapting your approach to the organisation and the change being considered.
You must pass Managing Benefits Foundation before taking the Practitioner examination. KBC will review your existing qualification and help plan your next step.
Your package includes the examination or examinations named in your offer. Certification is awarded on successfully passing the relevant assessment. See the official APMG certification details .
Make the benefits visible
From a business case
to a measurable result.
A project can finish while its intended benefits remain uncertain. This course helps you make the connection between the change being delivered and the improvement people expect from it.
Who is this course for?
Benefits managers, sponsors, project and programme managers, PMO professionals, business case authors, change leaders and people responsible for evaluating investment or reporting performance.
Bring a workplace example and use it to explore clearer measures, ownership and follow-through.
The examples below show how the subject can be applied. Your learning plan confirms the syllabus and depth for your chosen certification level.
A practical learning journey
01Identify and quantify
Clarify the improvement sought and connect it to the change required.
Try it at work: Sketch a benefit map for an initiative and agree one useful measure with its owner.
02Value and appraise
Examine options and the evidence behind expected value.
Try it at work: Compare two options and record the assumptions that could change your recommendation.
03Plan for benefits
Connect responsibilities, measures and timing in a benefits realisation plan.
Try it at work: Draft a benefit profile showing its owner, starting point and intended improvement.
04Realise the improvement
Track what is changing and respond when results differ from expectations.
Try it at work: Outline a dashboard comparing a forecast benefit with observed progress.
05Review and learn
Use evidence to reassess value and improve future decisions.
Try it at work: Plan a review that asks what improved, what remains uncertain and what should change next.
Explore the framework in Stephen Jenner’s APMG article on project benefits and the official candidate resources .
Plan your learning
Your goals.
A clear learning plan.
Talk to KBC about your experience, preferred study format and availability. The team confirms your course duration, teaching dates and preparation requirements before enrolment.
Start with your goals
Discuss whether Foundation, progression to Practitioner or a combined learning route best supports the decisions you make at work.
Learn with Stephen
Work through benefits questions, discuss examples and use guided preparation to develop your understanding between teaching sessions.
Prepare for assessment
Your learning plan sets out the examinations included, relevant prerequisites, preparation and booking arrangements.
Your London Masterclass experience
Meet the people.
Take the ideas further.
Meet tutors, expert speakers and fellow professionals at KBC’s London Masterclass events. Explore practical challenges, exchange perspectives and build connections beyond your course.
At the October 2026 event at The Cumberland, Stephen explored the problems, causes and solutions involved in realising benefits.
KBC confirms event places, dates and any travel arrangements in your course or programme offer.
A taste of the London Masterclass
A short discussion of value, outcomes and better business decisions.
Watch on YouTubeA milestone worth celebrating
Graduation at
Rochester Cathedral.
Celebrate your achievement with the KBC community in the historic surroundings of Rochester Cathedral in Kent. KBC covers the ceremony for eligible graduating learners.
Your programme team will confirm graduation eligibility, the ceremony date and attendance arrangements.
Discover the KBC graduation experienceFees & funding
A clear offer.
Support to move forward.
Your written offer confirms the total course fee, the certification level and the examinations included. KBC will explain the funding available for your circumstances before you enrol.
Exams included
A written fee for your chosen route
Book for yourself or through your employer. Your offer identifies the Foundation and/or Practitioner examination included, the learning materials supplied and your teaching arrangements.
Discuss your course fee50% funding
For learners outside apprenticeship funding eligibility
The Institute of Project Controls (IPC) Fund covers half of the agreed course fee for learners who are not eligible for apprenticeship levy funding.
- Self-employed learners.
- Learners unable to secure the required off-the-job study time.
- Learners outside England who do not meet the English funding requirements.
Your examination package remains included. KBC confirms the funding contribution and the balance you pay in writing.
Ask for IPC fundingFully funded
Within your agreed apprenticeship programme
Managing Benefits can be fully funded when included in the learning plan for an eligible KBC apprenticeship.
KBC checks programme suitability, employment and funding eligibility, employer support and protected off-the-job learning time. Living outside England does not by itself determine eligibility.
Discuss apprenticeship fundingApprenticeship funding applies to the eligible wider programme and its requirements. KBC confirms your chosen route and all inclusions before enrolment. Explore KBC funding support.
Before you join
Your questions, answered.
How do Foundation and Practitioner differ?
Foundation develops understanding of the guidance. Practitioner focuses on applying and tailoring it to a scenario. Passing the Foundation examination is a prerequisite for taking Practitioner.
What is the course fee, and which exams are included?
KBC provides an exam-inclusive written offer for your chosen route. It confirms the total fee and whether the Managing Benefits Foundation examination, Practitioner examination or both are included.
How long does the course take?
The team confirms the duration, study format, teaching dates and preparation required for your chosen level. Discuss your availability when booking your information session.
Can I receive 50% IPC funding?
IPC provides 50% support for learners who are not eligible for apprenticeship levy funding. This includes self-employed learners, those unable to secure the required off-the-job study time and learners outside England who do not meet the funding requirements. KBC confirms your route and contribution in writing.
Can I attend a London Masterclass and graduation?
Discuss the London Masterclass opportunity with the team when arranging your course. Graduation at Rochester Cathedral is available to eligible graduating learners. KBC confirms event access, ceremony eligibility, dates and attendance arrangements.
Your next step
Learn with Stephen.
Make benefits part of delivery.
Discuss the change you want to make, choose your certification route and explore full apprenticeship funding or 50% IPC support.