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ELE advances leadership development in the flow of work through ongoing community-powered reflection and exploration. People leaders listen, question assumptions, and simplify complex talent challenges while exploring opportunities to create business value. Across years—and sometimes decades—these conversations build trust, belonging, judgment, and mutual support. Everyone can contribute, including by listening.

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This is where people leaders get sharper — and their teams get smarter.ELE is a community of people leaders who work through real talent challenges together. For more than 20 years, leaders building high-performing teams have learned with—and from—one another here.

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Bring a real talent challenge. Name what's at stake, what you've tried, and why it matters now.

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Signal what matters most. Your vote shapes what your peers tackle next.

For more than 20 years, people leaders across these organizations have shared experiences, tackled talent challenges, and built lasting relationships through ELE. Some remain active today. Others are part of our history. Many connections continue long after people change organizations. Looking to connect with someone? We can often help make an introduction.

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Find the peer conversation that moves your work forward.The right exchange builds better leaders, closes capability gaps, and cuts through what internal meetings can't.

Figure out if ELE is for you. Straight answers on what ELE is, who it’s built for, and how contributors work together. Still have a question? Contact us.

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.

What issues and talent challenges are your leaders working through right now?Bring a real work issue into conversation with the community. Fresh perspectives help you reframe the challenge, simplify complexity, and find a practical way forward.Continue the conversation between meetups and working exchanges. Read and reflect, or contribute when you’re ready.

Keep the Conversation Going. Move the Work Forward.

Real conversations from people leaders tackling today's toughest talent challenges -- captured live, ready to apply with your teams when it fits your schedule, and connected to what's happening right now.

Insights on Talent Challenges | Captured Peer Conversations | ELE

Connect with people leaders, explore real talent challenges, and help shape what the community works on next.

Welcome

ELE began in 2002 with an internal Learning Leaders Conference at Baxter. Since then, it has grown into an international community where people leaders share experiences, work through real talent challenges, and build relationships that last. From remote work to AI reshaping the workplace, the challenges keep changing. The value of learning from one another hasn't.

Work through real challenges with trusted peers. Build judgment and relationships through ongoing reflection, exploration, and contribution.

Leadership Development in the Flow of Work.

Gather people leaders around a talent challenge that matters to your work. ELE handles the logistics. What you explore together helps shape the community’s calendar.

Hear from the ELE community—real stories of peer collaboration, learning, and growth from leaders across the community.

Executive Learning Exchange (ELE)

You've rolled out AI tools, opened up access and invested in training. Today's AI Working Lab takes on the harder call: which AI initiatives are improving the work enough to scale, and which to change or stop.
We're working a realistic case together. AI helped one team deliver faster, but the organization still has to decide where to invest. The question on the table: what would need to be true for that team's success to carry over to another?
Three questions guide the work:

<ul>
 	<li>What's holding people back? Inconsistent workflows, low trust in AI outputs, or something else.</li>
 	<li>What evidence justifies expanding? Faster turnaround, better quality, less rework.</li>
 	<li>Where do you invest when time and resources are limited? And what are you willing to give up?</li>
</ul>
The goal: a practical way to assess whether an AI initiative is improving the work, and the evidence to decide whether to scale it, change it, or stop it.
Takeaways from the community will follow after the Lab. Weighing an AI initiative of your own? Add it to the <a href="https://community.ele.llc/t/pre-chat-post-chat-ai-working-lab-ai-adoption-decisions-what-to-scale-change-or-stop/6317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pre-chat + post-chat thread</a> on the Idea Exchange.


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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>
Have an AI decision your team is stuck on? Submit it as a talent challenge at <a href="/calendar/shape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shape the Calendar</a>.

✨ AI Adoption Decisions -- What to Scale, Change, or Stop | AI Working Lab