What We’ll Explore Together ... ELE Intelligence Organization Fall Summit October 1, 2026 | Chicago
Lead the AI Era—From Insight to Action
Formerly ELE’s fall conference, this year’s gathering is becoming a working summit for leaders navigating culture, capability, AI execution, and organizational change. Business intelligence tells leaders what the data shows. People intelligence helps them understand what the work is becoming.
ELE brings both closer together.
What if Leadership Learning Moved Back Into the Work? This is not a sit-and-listen conference. ELE builds community intelligence that helps unlock organizational intelligence.A CENTURY AGO, LEARNING STARTED CLOSER TO REAL WORK Harvard helped scale real-world business learning through cases and peer discussion. But today’s work is moving too fast to only study someone else’s problem after the fact.
It is a community-powered working experience where keynote insights become real-time discussion, peer learning, small-group application, and practical next moves leaders can bring back to their organizations.
That is the work of ELE’s Idea Exchange Execution Engine: turning shared signals into sharper decisions, practical next moves, and 30/60/90-day leadership commitments.
How the Exchange Works
- Real-World Challenges: We start with the problems leaders are actually trying to solve — not abstract trends or polished case studies.
- Design Charrettes: Small groups work the challenge together, look at it from different angles, and shape sharper choices.
- AI Practical Labs: The strongest ideas move into practical action planning — where AI becomes a tool for execution, not another shiny object.
From Challenge to Action
ELE is leaning into a simple workflow: real-world challenges → peer-powered decisions → implementation.
At Chicago Exchange 2026, leaders will bring the issues showing up in the work: culture drag, capability gaps, adoption friction, leadership readiness, and the execution risks that come with AI-era change.
You won’t just hear about transformation. You’ll work through it with peers — and leave with clearer decisions, smarter next steps, and practical ways to move the work forward.
What to Expect
- Real executive dialogue: Practical, unscripted exchange with senior leaders working through AI-era leadership challenges.
- Design Charrette work: Small-group collaboration around real problems, sharper choices, and practical next steps.
- AI Practical Lab mindset: Explore where AI can reduce friction, improve handoffs, and support execution — without pretending the tool solves the leadership work.
- Peer-powered momentum: Leave with clearer thinking, useful connections, and ideas you can bring back to the business.
Real-World Challenges We’ll Work Through
The agenda will be shaped around the leadership and workforce challenges showing up across the ELE community, including:
- Building leadership readiness for AI-era change
- Reducing adoption friction across teams and functions
- Strengthening culture when work is shifting fast
- Turning AI interest into practical workflow improvement
- Helping managers lead through ambiguity, speed, and execution drag
Who Should Be in the Room
This exchange is designed for senior leaders responsible for leadership, talent, culture, workforce transformation, and execution.
- CHROs and senior HR executives
- Chief Learning Officers and heads of talent
- Leaders responsible for leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and employee experience
- Business leaders working through AI-era change with their teams
Hosted at CNA Insurance
CNA, downtown Chicago office, gives this exchange the right setting: a modern business environment in the heart of the Loop, built for practical conversation, cross-company perspective, and the kind of working dialogue leaders need as AI reshapes work, culture, and execution.
Register Now
Ready to work through the leadership challenges shaping the AI era?
Join people leaders in downtown Chicago for a live, in-person working summit built around the problems leaders are actually trying to solve — with peer-powered decisions, practical next steps, and 30/60/90-day leadership commitments.
Bring sharp questions. Learn with peers. Leave with momentum.
