ELE Group, LLC

AI is reshaping how we work—faster decisions, leaner processes, smarter tools. But for employees, the pace of transformation often feels more destabilizing than empowering. What’s accelerating is change. What’s not? Recovery. And while organizations rush to optimize workflows, the human systems that sustain them—well-being, trust, psychological safety—are showing signs of strain.

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“When people feel genuinely cared for, trust and engagement soar.” -- <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/missy-gonzales" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Gonzales</a>, West Bend Insurance
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This session was a wake-up call for senior talent leaders: Your AI strategy will fail if your people don’t feel safe, skilled, and seen.


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<h3 class="" data-start="874" data-end="900">🔑 Key Takeaways:</h3>
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AI creates uncertainty, not just efficiency. Employees fear irrelevance or job loss, especially without a clear roadmap for upskilling.
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Well-being drives readiness. When employees feel cared for, they engage more deeply and adapt more confidently. That care can’t be performative—it has to be embedded in everyday decisions, leadership behaviors, and cultural norms.
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Resistance is rarely willful—it’s about capability. Most hesitation stems from lack of skills, not unwillingness.
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ERGs and focus groups unlock real-time solutions. During COVID and now AI, listening remains a high-leverage tool.
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Small, peer-led learning spreads faster than top-down mandates. Culture changes through shared curiosity—not executive announcements.
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Leaders can’t afford to treat well-being like a box to check. When care is authentic, outcomes improve—retention, productivity, loyalty. The organizations that thrived through crisis didn’t just offer benefits; they listened, responded with empathy, and co-created support systems that met employees where they were. The same approach applies in today’s AI environment. People aren’t asking for perfection—they’re asking to be prioritized.

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“Most resistance to AI isn’t refusal—it’s a skills gap.” -- <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/guillermo-gutierrez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guillermo Gutierrez</a>
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This shift also demands reframing how we interpret resistance. Employees aren’t pushing back because they’re change-averse—they’re overwhelmed. And when AI tools are dropped into workflows without a learning pathway or psychological safety, shutdown is the natural response. It’s not about forcing adoption—it’s about creating capability and confidence.


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<h3 class="" data-start="2660" data-end="2712">🔧 Practical Actions for HR Talent Leaders:</h3>
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Activate ERGs to co-design support plans for employee stress, learning, and inclusion in AI transformation.
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Launch short, gamified AI learning cohorts that encourage peer-to-peer exploration, not forced training.
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Coach leaders to communicate using terms like “evolve” and “experiment” instead of “disrupt” and “replace.”
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Spotlight micro-successes in AI adoption from frontline employees to foster confidence and momentum.
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Make well-being visible and vocal again. Don’t wait for burnout—design for resilience.
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AI adoption isn’t just a digital challenge—it’s a cultural one. And the leaders who get it right won’t be the ones with the best tech stack. They’ll be the ones who remembered this: supporting people is the transformation.
Put care and capability at the center—and your organization will not only adapt but thrive.

Thriving in the AI Era: Employee Wellbeing, Mental Resilience & Burnout Prevention

Integrated Talent Management

Future of Work

digital transformation

learning culture

Change Management

inna.conner

talent development

missy.gonzales

employee engagement

psychological safety

guillermo.gutierrez

peer-learning

organizational culture

HR leadership

AI in HR

Burnout Prevention

employee wellbeing

Skills Gap

ERGs

Human-Centered Leadership

wise2025

“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

leadership development

Performance Improvement

productivity

resilience building

stress management

laura.sandera

Mindfulness in the Workplace

High-Performance Teams

Focus and Concentration

Employee Health

Organizational Health

Wellness Programs

Energy Management

Is your organization strategically prepared for the digital and distributed workplace?

Technology, data analytics and artificial intelligence already impact how people work and engage with organizations. A dispersed workforce, greater transparency, social change, generational shift and value chain disruptions are driving new behaviors and expectations from the workplace. Together, these trends are shaping a new era of distributed and digitally enabled network of workers where the work comes to workers instead of the workers going to work.

In Humans at Work, employee and workplace experience experts Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor advocate for the adoption of human-centric practices as a critical and necessary part of adapting work and workplaces to the future of work. Outlining the four factors (digitization of work, distributed workplaces, organizational redesign and changing workforce) driving the dramatic changes in the workplace, each chapter provides examples of how innovative companies are building workplace infrastructure and reshaping norms, serving new markets and adopting new technologies.

Filled with examples from both start-ups and established companies, Humans at Work is the workplace leader's guide to building a workplace that creates market value by making work more human.

Humans at Work: The Art and Practice of Creating the Hybrid Workplace

future of work

hybrid workplace

megan.bickle

work-life balance

workplace innovation

remote work

workplace strategy

World-renowned biohacker and bestselling author Dave Asprey reveals how to maximize your well-being with the minimum effort, by taking control of your body’s operating system

If you want to lose weight, boost your energy, or sharpen your mind, there are shelves of books offering myriad styles of advice. If you want to build up your strength and cardio fitness, there are plenty of gyms and trainers ready to offer you their guidance. What all of these resources have in common is they offer you a bad deal: a lot of effort for a little payoff. Dave Asprey has found a better way.

In Smarter Not Harder, the proven master of biohacking exposes the surprising secrets of your body’s operating system, or its “MeatOS.” That system is naturally designed to be lazy, which is why sweaty exercise routines and rigid diets produce such limited effects. Dave shows us how to hack the MeatOS and make it do what we want it to do, turning it from obstacle into ally. The key to achieving optimum wellness, he reveals, isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing less—exercising and eating smarter, not harder, and making the body’s built in laziness work for you.

Smarter Not Harder is not a diet nor a fitness plan. It is a system of targeted biohacks aimed at upgrading your metabolic, neurological, and epigenetic systems. Packed with practical, accessible information on better eating; smart workouts that give you more strength and energy in less time; and strategic therapies to reduce stress and boost resilience—Smarter Not Harder will show you how to achieve lasting health in less time.

Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want

Coaching

stress reduction

Talent Optimization

Productivity Hacks

Energy Optimization

Mental Performance

Cognitive Enhancement

Biohacking for Business

High-Performance Habits

Health and Productivity

Well-being Strategies

The Inclusion Equation is a comprehensive guide to merging DEI and employee wellbeing concepts with data analytics and AI. In this book, the author explains how to quantify new talent strategies' effectiveness by connecting them to a firm ROI estimate. This enables readers to approach and win the favor of higher-ups in any organization with the same efficacy as marketing and financial departments.

Written in a style that is appealing and accessible to all readers regardless of technical background, but with enough depth to provide real insight and strategies. Dr. Serena H. Huang distills her 10 years of Fortune 500 people analytics leadership experience into tools and frameworks you can leverage to measure and improve DEI and wellbeing in your workplace. Some of the topics explored in this book include:
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 	<li>Attract and retain top talent, including Gen Z and Millennials, with tailored DEI and wellbeing strategies</li>
 	<li>Quantifying not only a talent strategy's perceived initial effect on an organization, but also its improvement and expansion over time</li>
 	<li>Turning DEI and wellbeing from illusive corporate concepts to quantifiable metrics</li>
 	<li>Harness the power of AI to create synchronized DEI and wellbeing strategies that maximize ROI</li>
 	<li>Getting serious attention from your CEO and CFO by quantifying HR initiatives</li>
 	<li>Using data storytelling to demonstrate the business impact of DEI and wellbeing</li>
 	<li>Preparing for the future by understanding the role of AI in creating an inclusive and healthy workplace</li>
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The Inclusion Equation is a complete guide for DEI and wellbeing, covering getting started in measurement to using storytelling to influence leadership. This is the contemporary playbook for any organization intending to substantially improve their diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing by leveraging data &amp; AI. This book is also perfect for any data analytics professionals who want to understandseren how to apply analytics to issues that keep their CEOs up at night. Whether you are a data expert or data novice, as long as you are serious about improving DEI and wellbeing, this book is for you.

The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being

Leadership

Analytics

inclusion

serena.huang

Talent Strategy

inclusive leadership

tresha.lovell

data-driven decision-making

DEIB

Workplace Inclusion

HR Analytics

Diversity and AI

Data-Driven DEI

AI for Wellbeing

Leadership Insights

Book Chat

Fireside Chat

Networking Event

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book with more than 2 million copies sold.

Getting everything you want out of life isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more. Hal Elrod and The Miracle Morning have helped millions of people become the person they need to be to create the life they’ve always wanted. Now, it’s your turn.

Hal’s revolutionary S.A.V.E.R.S. method is a simple, effective step-by-step process to transform your life in as little as six minutes per day:
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 	<li>Silence: Reduce stress and improve mental clarity by beginning each day with peaceful, purposeful quiet</li>
 	<li>Affirmations: Reprogram your mind to overcome any fears or beliefs that are limiting your potential or causing you to suffer</li>
 	<li>Visualization: Experience the power of mentally rehearsing yourself showing up at your best each day</li>
 	<li>Exercise: Boost your mental and physical energy in as little as 60 seconds</li>
 	<li>Reading: Acquire knowledge and expand your abilities by learning from experts</li>
 	<li>Scribing: Keep a journal to deepen gratitude, gain insights, track progress, and increase your productivity by getting clear on your top priorities</li>
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The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

Personal Growth

Habit Formation

Positive Psychology

Productivity Habits

Time Management Strategies

Goodall shares a perspective that resonated greatly with me - change has become a cult, treated as a sacred easy button for leaders and organizations. The problem that change initiatives often disregard the change toll or on the people and organization's resources for true transformation. What if there were fewer change initiatives and more resources/effort were put into improving what already exists? What if there was more stability and less turbulence that would allow people to thrive? Fix what's really broken, transform what's not longer relevant, and create environment and systems that honor humans.

If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone.  Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.

For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.

Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon, unleashing a torrent of disruption on employees. The result is what Goodall calls “life in the blender”—a perpetual cycle of upheaval, uncertainty, and unease.

The problem with change, Goodall argues, is that a culture where everything from people to processes to strategic priorities are constantly in flux exerts a psychological toll that undermines motivation, productivity, and performance.  And yet so accustomed are we to constant churn that we have become numb to its very real consequences.

Drawing on two decades spent leading HR organizations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall reveals why change is not the same as improvement, and how, by prioritizing team cohesion (instead of reshuffling teams at will), by using real words (rather than corporate-speak), by sharing secrets (not mission statements), by fixing only the things that are truly broken (instead of moving fast and breaking everything in sight, and more, leaders at every level can create the stability that people need to thrive.

The Problem With Change And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

Engagement &amp; Culture

corinne@innovatingresults.com

talent management

organizational development

resilience

Strategic HR

diana.anderson

Leadership Effectiveness

Corporate Strategy

human performance

workplace stability

Working parenthood can be overwhelming, frustrating, and riddled with guilt. It can also be a source of joy, inspiration, and creativity. Balancing rich scientific research with friendly, supportive tips and anecdotes. Yael Schonbrun offers a toolkit to help even the most stressed of working parents grow the good while better managing inevitable challenges. She banishes the idea that the key to ultimate working parenthood is the ability to do it all. Instead, the key is to learn how these roles, together, can help you thrive!
<h3>Key Aspects of the Book</h3>
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 	<li>Based on Science, Not Just Opinion: The strategies in the book are rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a form of mindfulness-based behavioral therapy. This provides a strong, research-backed framework for the advice.</li>
 	<li>Focus on Mindset: The book is not about productivity "hacks" to fit more into your day. Instead, it's an "inside-out" approach that teaches you how to change the way you think and feel about your roles.</li>
 	<li>Practical Strategies: The book outlines 12 specific strategies, such as getting clear on your core values, practicing mindfulness, and viewing the transition between roles as a form of "micro-rest." These are designed to be actionable and manageable for busy parents.</li>
 	<li>Embraces Imperfection: Work, Parent, Thrive encourages you to let go of guilt and accept that some things are out of your control. It helps you focus on what truly matters to you, rather than on the pressure to be perfect in every area of your life.</li>
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Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection

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