Keynote speakers and small group facilitators are confirming through summer — as they register, they'll show up here and on the working agenda with topics penciled in.

This in-person exchange is built around real talent challenges, trusted peers, and practical next moves.

Your best people aren't short on effort. They're short on time, clarity, and a trusted place to work through the talent challenges they're actually facing. Leadership development has leaned on case studies since 1922 — useful, but about someone else's problem, after the fact. ELE brings it back into the flow of work: real issues, trusted peers, practical next moves.

Leadership development programs teach leaders how to think. They rarely fix why execution stalls.

Energy is what's missing. When real work bottlenecks get unstuck — with peers who have already solved the same problem — teams move faster, decisions get made, and leaders stop managing around the same problems every quarter.

That's not a training program. That's what happens when leadership development finally connects to the work.

ELE works best when people in the community do more than browse. Update your profile, join the Idea Exchange, check the calendar, and step into a conversation where your experience helps move real work forward.

The Action Planning Worksheet (APW) is one of the most practical leadership development tools you can use right now — on your own real work bottleneck. Find the signals, weigh the strategic choices, and reflect on the risk trade-offs. The riskiest move is often doing nothing.

If it surfaces something worth bringing to your community, you know where to find us.