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DX Learning Solutions

ELB Learning

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<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">The “generation divide” may be the label. The deeper challenge may be disconnection.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">After years of isolation, remote habits, and screen-first communication, many teams are rebuilding the muscles of trust, feedback, psychological safety, and real-time collaboration.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">This Design Charrette helps people leaders look past generational shorthand and identify what is actually slowing team performance—then work through the signals, risk tradeoffs, and practical actions that help teams reconnect and execute better.</p>

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Design Charrette | Beyond the Generation Divide

Engagement &amp; Culture

kyle.swanson

performance management

psychological safety

Performance Improvement

brady.bair

Trust Building

Culture Transformation

wise2026

Design Charrette

angela.howard

feedback loops

bill.crandall

insights-wise-2026

peer collaboration

modern workforce

generational divide

remote habits

screen-first communication

team execution

workplace collaboration

team friction

organizational dynamics

communication strategy

behavioral patterns

leadership choices

workplace isolation

performance barrier

Alter Domus

Precisely

Scout

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<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">Leadership development often happens too far from the moment leaders need it.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">For people leaders, AI creates a new opportunity: support managers closer to the decision, conversation, or handoff where leadership is actually tested.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">This lab explores how AI can strengthen in-the-moment leadership without replacing human judgment, context, or accountability.</p>

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AI Practical Lab | Leadership Development in the Moment

Digital &amp; AI

Leadership

chris.olson

leadership development

anton.maletich

marty.murrillo

frontline managers

change leadership

ai practical lab

artificial intelligence

capability building

just in time learning

talent enablement

leadership accountability

manager enablement

human judgment

Decision Support

strategic choices

peer reflection

workflow integration

operational effectiveness

in-the-moment support

real-time coaching

behavioral shift

LAK Group

Allstate Insurance

Waukesha County Technical College

Marquette University

HumanSide

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<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">AI transformation stalls when the why is unclear, too generic, or delegated too far down.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">This executive cohort panel brings together senior leaders and advisors for a candid conversation about what it takes to move AI from tool rollout to strategic capability.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">We'll start by clearing some of the noise, the myths and unfulfilled promises shaping how people show up to AI. From there: building workforce confidence, navigating change, equipping people managers, and what senior leaders are doing about a system that tends to reward the wrong kind of AI use.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">Expect candid takes, real failures, and the moves that are starting to land.</p>

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Executive Cohort Panel | Framing the Why

Strategy

michael.grubich

lorna.malloy

peter.hogaboam

technology adoption

AI transformation

jim.orheim

phyllis.king

dustin.brewer

executive strategy

executive cohort panel

senior leadership

strategic capability

workforce confidence

transformation scale

change navigation

business value alignment

cultural friction

system incentives

peer perspectives

talent architecture

real-world execution

implementation risk

operational clarity

Lurie Children's

BARYONS

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<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">Most organizations have rolled out the tools. That does not mean adoption is happening.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">For people leaders, the real challenge is helping managers lead the identity shift, reinforce new behaviors, and connect AI use to business value.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">Senior leaders must frame the why and the business value first—so HR, learning, and reskilling efforts can connect capability-building to the transformation the business is actually trying to drive.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem;">This keynote explores why managers are the leverage point—and why leadership development has to move from awareness to transformation.</p>

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Design Charrette | Beyond the Generation Divide

AI Practical Lab | Leadership Development in the Moment

Executive Cohort Panel | Framing the Why

Leadership Development | Driving AI Transformation

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