What We're Working Through ...
Your leadership development programs aren't working. Everyone knows it. They can't scale. No one has time to fix it. No one has time to attend.
Lead the AI Era—From Insight to Action
Formerly ELE's fall conference, this year's gathering is a working summit that solves the "no one has time" dilemma — 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.
Leadership Learning Moves Back Into the Work.
This is not a sit-and-listen experience. 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: turning shared signals into sharper decisions, practical next moves, and 30/60/90-day leadership commitments.
How the Exchange Works
- Real stuck work: Leaders bring the issues actually stalling performance — not abstract trends or someone else's case study.
- Design Charrettes: Small peer groups work the problem together, challenge assumptions, and shape decisions that move.
- AI Practical Labs: AI becomes a tool for execution — not another shiny object that adds to the noise.
From Stuck Work to Business Value
Most leadership development measures how people feel after the program. ELE measures what moved. When leaders fix the root-cause problems — the stuck work that burns out your best people — engagement follows. Retention improves. Business value accelerates. Not because of EQ fluff. Because the work that was stuck is finally moving. Leave October 1 with a 30/60/90-day plan, a peer who's already solved your problem, and a leadership development model that actually fits the speed your organization needs to move.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
Your leadership development isn't built for the AI era. October 1 is where that changes.
Join people leaders in downtown Chicago — bring what's stuck, work through it with peers, and leave with a 30/60/90-day plan that moves.
