Goal: In this 45-minute breakout, participants will experience a taste of the ELE Work/Life Blueprint and reflect on how design thinking can make reskilling personal, scalable, and business-aligned.

Every HR leader knows reskilling at scale is an enterprise priority—but traditional, one-size-fits-all approaches rarely deliver impact. The Work/Life Exchange Blueprint introduces a five-step, design-thinking framework that makes reskilling personal, practical, and scalable:

1️⃣ Discover — map where energy, skills, and growth opportunities intersect.

2️⃣ Design — generate multiple “what’s next” scenarios, short- and long-term.

3️⃣ Prototype — test small, low-risk skill applications that generate real data.

4️⃣ Exchange — share insights, borrow ideas, and refine through peer feedback.

5️⃣ Blueprint — tell your story, build your support team, and co-create a living plan (not a static PDP).

Grounded in design-thinking principles from Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, this ELE-built model simplifies reskilling at scale by moving from HR-led programs to frontline-owned growth — turning learning into impact.

📚 Related Reading: Designing Your Work Life on ELE’s Bookshelf

🔁 ELE Executive Innovation Sprints Proposal

What’s Next: Following this initial ideation, on November 14th we’ll host a virtual exchange to refine business requirements before recruiting 4–6 members for our first Solution Sprint.