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ELE is a peer-powered community where people leaders don't just reframe challenges — they leave with decisions, next moves, and 30/60/90-day commitments to move real work forward.&nbsp;For 22 years, leaders from Fortune 1000 companies have brought their hardest problems here — and left sharper than they arrived.

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This is where people leaders get sharper — and their teams get smarter.ELE is a peer-powered network of people leaders who accelerate business results through shared intelligence and real-work collaboration. Learn more below about why ELE has been the trusted choice for leaders building high-performing teams for over 20 years.

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Get answers about how Executive Learning Exchange (ELE) works — peer-powered leadership development that fixes real work issues, reverses burnout, and accelerates business value. No programs. No vendors. In the flow of work.

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For nearly 25 years, the week after every Fall Conference took me 10+ days: converting slides, editing recordings, uploading photos, updating the website.

After our Oct 1 conversations on Leadership Development in the AI Flow of Work, I tried something different. I started with the outcome and split the work. Claude handled about 90% of the tasks. I handled the 10% that needed me. The 21 key takeaways, highlight videos and post-sharing slides took 2 days instead of 10.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-46266" src="https://wp.ele.llc/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026CHIE_Keynote_Expertise_and_Human_Judgment_Takeaways.jpg" alt="Session takeaways from ELE's Oct 1, 2026 Fall Conference: Beyond Soft Skills &amp; Copilots: Expertise + Human Judgment, with key points, quotes and facilitators." width="613" height="345" />

In this Lab, I'll show you how. I'll open with a short walk-through, and then it's your turn.

Bring one workflow that eats your week: a recurring report, a program launch, post-event follow-up or onboarding. We'll reimagine it together.

What we'll work on together:
<ul>
 	<li>Start with the outcome: what does better look like?</li>
 	<li>Split the work: what needs your judgment, and what can AI carry?</li>
 	<li>Try it live with AI-enabled prompts and ideas from peers</li>
 	<li>Capture next steps on ELE's Action Planning Worksheet</li>
 	<li>Leave with one reimagined workflow and a 30-day path to try it</li>
</ul>
Who joins: people leaders bringing a workflow they want to reimagine.

If AI isn't changing how the work gets done, the work hasn't been reimagined yet.

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What we learn in these Labs feeds In Search of Organizational Excellence, ELE's fourth book.
<a href="https://community.ele.llc/t/in-search-of-organizational-excellence-4th-book-project-start-here/6140">📌 In Search of Organizational Excellence — 4th Book Project [Start Here]</a>

<a href="https://community.ele.llc/t/in-search-of-organizational-excellence-4th-book-project-start-here/6140"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-46000" src="https://wp.ele.llc/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ELE-Book-Cover-4-Reimagining-Work-GenAI-Gemini-1-e1786628339767.jpg" alt="Book cover: In Search of Organizational Excellence — Reimagining Work Around AI Expertise, Human Judgment &amp; People Development. Fourth in the Executive Learning Exchange Series, prepared by Dirk Tussing." width="539" height="446" /></a>

This Lab is part of ELE's community-powered calendar, live on Zoom. Keep the exchange going on our<a href="https://www.ele.llc/idea-exchange"> Idea Exchange</a>.

Your AI Direct Report: 10 Days → 2

Future of Work

Digital &amp; AI

dirk.tussing

leadership development

anton.maletich

patricia.ouzounian

AI tools

generative AI

workplace efficiency

AI Adoption

4Q2026

human judgment

action planning

People Leaders

workflow automation

AI In The Flow Of Work

paul.desousa

robert.snyder

AI working lab

mira.wolf

claude

productivity gains

time saving

task delegation

process reengineering

practical AI prompts

CNA Insurance

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A successful executive gathering surfaces powerful new ideas, uncovers critical operational tensions, and reveals practical possibilities. However, the ultimate value of these insights depends on what happens next—converting dialogue into decisive, accountable action.
This closing session connects key themes across the day's discussions, challenging participants to filter takeaways into concrete organizational priorities. By engaging with peer executives, leaders sharpen their immediate goals, identify key indicators of progress, and build cross-enterprise networks to sustain momentum.
Led by Nick Allen, Brady Bair, Dirk Tussing, and Vilson Simon, this interactive reflection guides leaders to establish clear 30-, 60-, and 90-day commitments that ensure conference insights translate into lasting business impact.

<h3>What we heard</h3>
The closing wall kept coming back to redesigning the work so humans and AI create better outcomes together. People named what has to stay human-led and how to measure whether the work is getting better.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46259" src="https://wp.ele.llc/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026CHIE_Community_Reflections_Takeaways.jpg" alt="Session takeaways from ELE's Oct 1, 2026 Fall Conference: Community Reflections | What Moves Forward, with key points, quotes and facilitators." width="1920" height="1080" />
<blockquote>"We are not alone."
Community voice</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We are uniquely positioned to advocate for the humans. Let's do it."
Community voice</blockquote>
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2026 ELE’s Fall Conference: Community Reflections | What Moves Forward

future of work

Strategy

Leadership

nick.allen

continuous improvement

accountability

Performance Improvement

brady.bair

CHIE2026

leadership strategy

leadership alignment

vilson.simon

community reflection

executive commitments

30 60 90 day plan

insight to action

peer network

conference synthesis

strategic execution

change follow-through

enterprise performance

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"I went from a blank to having a pretty good rough draft that I can go then and edit, and makes my time much more productive." — <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/dirk-tussing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dirk Tussing</a>
</blockquote>
Here's the business problem that kicked this off: small and mid-sized companies know leadership development isn't working. Classroom training isn't building AI-ready leaders. And the people who do understand AI can't always translate it into what a 500-person manufacturing company actually needs to do differently on Monday morning.
That was the challenge Mike Grubich brought to ELE's April 10th <a href="https://www.ele.llc/insights/design-charrette-stop-talking-start-building-ai-leaders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Design Charrette — </a><a href="https://www.ele.llc/insights/design-charrette-stop-talking-start-building-ai-leaders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stop Talking, Start Building Leaders</a>. The charrette generated raw peer insight and a partially filled action planning worksheet. April 16th was about turning that raw material into something a leadership team could actually use.


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This one was open to anyone — members, guests, and curious colleagues alike. No slides, no formal structure. Just Dirk walking through the live workflow with a small group willing to watch AI do the heavy lifting in real time.


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The workflow: Charrette → Action Plan → Playbook
ELE's new sprint model is a three-step sequence. The Design Charrette starts with a real business problem and generates peer-tested insight. That becomes the input for an AI Action Planning hour — where AI tools help complete Aaron Olson's Action Planning Worksheet (from Strategy and Change), a structured tool designed for exactly this kind of high-disruption, hard-to-focus moment. The completed worksheet then feeds an AI Practical Lab, where the community co-creates customized implementation playbooks.
As <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/patricia-ouzounian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patti Ouzounian</a> put it during the discussion:

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"You're taking what was done in the charrette and all of the transcript items and pieces to come up with a new and improved, updated action planning worksheet — so it can stand as the premise for the AI practice sessions, and then ultimately the playbook."
</blockquote>
That's the architecture. And the April 16th hour was proof it works.


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AI doesn't replace the thinking — it accelerates it
Dirk walked the group through the live workflow: drop in the Zoom transcript, the group chat, and the partially filled worksheet; run a CRIT prompt (Context, Role, Interview, Task); let the AI interview you with three targeted questions to sharpen the focus; then watch it fill out the worksheet with situation framing, insights, choices, risks, opportunities, and measurable actions.
The output wasn't perfect. It wasn't supposed to be. The point was to go from blank page to credible rough draft — fast — and then scrub it before sharing.

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"Senior leaders need to stop treating AI leadership as a content rollout and start treating it as an execution choice."
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That line came out of the AI-assisted worksheet completion, drawing directly from Mike's business challenge. It's the kind of reframe that takes a room an hour to land on. The AI surfaced it in minutes — because the charrette had already done the real work of naming the problem.


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The part that surprised the room
<a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/david-scherer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Scherer</a> raised something worth flagging:

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"I love these features — I really appreciate how we can leverage ELE in so many different ways outside of the organization."
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That's not just a compliment about the platform. It's pointing at something real: when you contribute to an ELE Design Charrette, you're building a documented, shareable artifact of your thinking. One you can actually point to. For senior leaders navigating career transitions or gig work, that matters.


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What to try next

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 	<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Run your own CRIT prompt on a current challenge. You don't need ELE's full workflow to start. Take a business problem you're stuck on, give an AI tool the Context, assign it a Role, ask it to Interview you (max 3 questions), then name the Task. Notice how different the output is from a generic prompt.</li>
 	<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Use the worksheet as a pre-read filter. Before your next leadership team conversation about AI adoption, run the Action Planning Worksheet on the situation yourself — even partially filled. It forces you to separate symptoms from signals before you walk in the room.</li>
 	<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Identify whose "business why" is missing. In most organizations, AI adoption stalls because senior executives haven't articulated why it matters for this business, this team, this year. Name one executive in your organization who should own that framing — and who isn't yet.</li>
</ol>
Early evidence signal: Within two weeks, can you get one senior leader to articulate AI adoption as a business execution decision — not a training initiative?


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If any of these insights resonate — and you've got a top-of-mind talent business problem you'd like the ELE community to work on — send it our way.
Members can submit their business challenge here: <a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://www.ele.llc/faqs/share-top-of-mind-business-challenges">Submit My Business Challenge Now</a>
Looking to turn these ideas into action? Access the <a href="https://community.ele.llc/t/pre-chat-post-chat-leadership-development-drives-ai-transformation/5860/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idea Exchange Post-chat</a> for an updated Action Planning Worksheet.

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