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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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National Louis University

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AI agents are already entering daily workflows and organizational structures—producing work, managing handoffs, and operating directly alongside human employees. Yet most organizations have not answered a fundamental strategic question: Who actually owns the digital workforce once it arrives?
This Design Charrette tackles critical governance and ownership challenges head-on: who onboards AI agents, sets performance expectations, manages operational risk, and enables managers and HRBPs to support teams working in hybrid human-digital environments.
Led by Newt Moore, Nick Allen, Jill Mack, and Shweta Srivastava, this interactive Design Charrette helps leaders assess their current process maturity, define their roadmap, and clarify their role in driving maximum organizational impact.

<h3>What we heard</h3>
Tables placed their organizations on an AI maturity scale and found pockets running agents next to teams just starting. The open question in every group: who owns, maintains and retires the bots once they're built?
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<blockquote>"It's not about tools. It's not just about adoption. It's about changing how the work happens." Newt Moore</blockquote>
<blockquote>"Who owns the bot? Who's supposed to troubleshoot the bot? Does it belong with my team now that it's created?" Community voice</blockquote></div>

Design Charrette: Digital Employees - Are We Ready?

Future of Work

Digital &amp; AI

digital transformation

newton.moore

shweta.srivastava

nick.allen

Operations

jill.mack

performance management

talent management

workforce readiness

CHIE2026

human AI collaboration

organizational design

AI governance

AI agents

Design Charrette

workflow integration

enterprise AI

digital employees

digital workforce

HR business partners

process maturity

The Regis Company

Zurich North America

The traditional model of learning design is now a strategic liability: slow, resource-intensive, and fundamentally incapable of generating the talent the business needs at speed. Senior HR and L&amp;D leaders who joined this session saw firsthand how to move their function from being a bottleneck to becoming an engine of strategic velocity by implementing an AI-First Design architecture.

This session was not about general AI trends; it was a deep dive into the practical architecture for replacing limited, expensive talent development methods with a system that is scalable, affordable, and measurable.

Key Takeaways for Senior Leaders:
<ul>
 	<li>From Knowing to Doing: The Validation Revolution: The most critical shift demonstrated was moving L&amp;D metrics away from outdated Knowledge Verification (e.g., course completions) to robust Skills Validation, using applied judgment and performance analysis to measure true capability.</li>
 	<li>The Velocity Advantage: Attendees learned a proven, step-by-step process to move from a concept to a working learning prototype in as little as two hours, proving that scalable, effective training can be achieved for all ranks without years of development cycles.</li>
 	<li>The L&amp;D Toolkit of the Future: The session showcased the power of specialized AI agents—including AI Design Agent (AIDA), AI Interview Agent (AIIA), and AI Coaching Agent (AICA)—that are essential for accelerating design, content synthesis, and personalization.</li>
</ul>
This session provided the essential blueprint for establishing a true Skills–Strategy Link, positioning the L&amp;D function as a strategic partner that can deliver high-impact talent solutions at the speed of business.

Design Charrette: Digital Employees - Are We Ready?

The Skills–Strategy Link: Using AI-First Design in L&D