It's a focused 90-minute peer exchange built around your real business challenge. ELE recruits a small cross-industry working group, facilitates the conversation, and you leave with a completed Signals-to-Action Planning Worksheet — including clear 30/60/90-day next steps.

A top-of-mind business challenge where peer input can help you reframe or move forward. Strong examples include:

• AI adoption stalling inside your organization
• Strategy is clear but execution keeps breaking down
• Leadership readiness gaps surfacing faster than you can address them
• Operating model friction slowing decisions in a fast-moving market

If it's timely, complex, and benefits from outside perspective — it's a strong candidate.

This is how ELE works — contributing members bring real problems, the working group gets sharper, and everyone leaves with something useful.

For over 20 years, people leaders from organizations like Walgreens, Microsoft, and the American Medical Association have described ELE the same way: direct access to peers who give you a quick, relevant response — without the vendor noise. Kyle Swanson called it "quick, inexpensive, and high quality." Shane Bill said it's the first place he doesn't feel like he has to solve everything alone.

Design Charrettes are new to ELE — and intentionally so. As AI reshapes roles faster than most organizations can absorb, the complimentary offer exists for one reason: to make it easy for people leaders to stay connected to the work that matters and the peers who get it. Come see for yourself.

Experienced people leaders from outside your industry and organization — contributing members with no agenda except helping you think it through. ELE recruits and coordinates the team. You show up and contribute.

Submit your challenge here — and check the box to Request a Complimentary Design Charrette. ELE reviews every submission and reaches out to confirm next steps — including matching you with a contributing member strategist and coordinating the working group. You show up, contribute, and leave with a completed Signals-to-Action Planning Worksheet.

ELE reviews your challenge against three tracks:

• Schedule — approved challenges are matched with a contributing member strategist and added to the upcoming Design Charrette calendar
• Clarify — if we need more context, we'll schedule a brief Listening Meetup first
• Redirect — if your challenge is better served elsewhere, we'll point you to the right resource on the Idea Exchange

Two per month — prioritized for challenges with broad relevance or critical urgency given the pace of AI-driven change right now.

Yes. Join as a Strategist or Skeptic in an upcoming Design Charrette and contribute to someone else's challenge. It's one of the fastest ways to experience how ELE works.

ELE Individual Plus membership gives you full access to the Talent Intelligence Community Platform — Design Charrettes, AI Practical Labs, Idea Exchange, Listening Meetups, Insights, and your ELEfolio.

The difference people leaders notice immediately: peer-driven intelligence in real time, from practitioners inside the work — not content that was relevant six months ago. The complimentary Design Charrette is your first real experience of what that looks like in practice.

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