Knowles Johnson University Learning Community is the membership and events platform for the Knowles Johnson Institute, bringing professionals and thought leaders together through events, networking, and shared learning. Members can sign up, verify their account, browse and filter upcoming events, and reserve their place in a few clicks. Behind the scenes, a dedicated admin console gives the Knowles Johnson University team full control over events, registrations, members, and payments.
The client wanted to start small with a membership sign-up and landing page, but on a foundation that could grow into a full community website without a rebuild. Events had to support in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats, free and paid tickets, capacity limits, and waitlists, while handling both registered members and guest attendees.
The Knowles Johnson University team also needed a single place to manage everything, from publishing and cancelling events to tracking registrations and transactions, with attendees kept informed automatically at every step.
We started with a scalable data model for members, events, registrations, and transactions, so new features could be added in phases without reworking the core. The member journey was designed to be quick and simple, with account creation, interest selection, and OTP email verification taking less than a minute.
On the public site, we built event discovery with search and filters by category, format, location, and date, plus a streamlined registration flow with instant email confirmation.
For the Knowles Johnson University team, we delivered a super admin console with a live dashboard, full event lifecycle management (draft, publish, duplicate, cancel, delete), per-event attendee views split by members and guests, member management, and a transactions view to track payments. Cancelling an event automatically notifies all registered attendees, keeping communication consistent with no manual effort.
The result is a clean, modern platform that lets Knowles Johnson University launch fast and grow its community with confidence.