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What is the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Consortium?
The purpose of the Learning Leaders Consortium is to provide local peer networking opportunities for exchanging lessons learned and best practices. For several years, Chicagoland Learning Leaders have informally gathered at McDonald’s University & the Q Center for an annual one-day conference of local thought leaders to share best practices. Our founding member companies like Abbott, Accenture, AON, Baxter, BlueCross-BlueShield of IL, Hewitt, Motorola and Walgreens provided initial formal infrastructure support including a calendar of ongoing events and extended the annual conference into a highly participatory suite of high-impact peer networking opportunities (click here to browse the online calendar).
How do I check my membership status?
Many Chicagoland companies are enterprise members (and many of our peer-networking events are free for members). We have a couple of ways for you can check if your membership is active.
You can
click here & enter in your work email address.
Another way, when you register online for a peer-networking session your membership status will automatically be checked for the lowest pricing.
How do I provide my email address to start or stop receiving monthly e-newsletters?
To receive future announcements from the Executive Learning Exchange, click here to add your name & email address or unsubscribe.
What are the objectives of the Executive Learning Exchange & Chicagoland Learning Leaders Consortium?
To increase awareness of progressive learning solutions, share best practices, and facilitate greater collaboration among members by identifying areas of mutual interest.
What Levels of Memberships are available?
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BEST VALUE – SAVE UP TO $2,000: Enterprise ELE Membership PLUS CLO/CTO Group: $7,000 annual fee for Enterprises greater than 2,000 employees; $6,000 annual fee for Enterprises less than 2,000 employees.
Purchasing your Enterprise Executive Learning Exchange (ELE) and CLO/CTO Group (CCG) Individual memberships together provides a $2,000 annual savings (click here to view current list of Founding Enterprise Members).
Click here to purchase an ELE PLUS CLO/CTO Group membership.
- Enterprise ELE Membership (more than 500 employees): $5,000 annual fee.
This membership provides the best value for medium to large organizations -- you can view our online program overview for what's included plus a $1,200 discount for Learning Leaders CPE Certificate @ DePaul program (click here to view current list of Founding Enterprise Members).
Click here to purchase an Enterprise ELE Membership (more than 2,000 employees).
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Small-Enterprise ELE Membership (2,000 or less employees): $3,000 annual fee.
Included: two registrations to annual conference and up to two additional conference registrations at 60% off; plus $100 discount to monthly peer-networking events, $1,200 discount for Learning Leaders CPE Certificate @ DePaul program and unlimited access to web-based archives.
Click here to purchase a Small-Enterprise ELE Membership (2,000 or less employees).
- Individual CLO/CTO Group (CCG) Membership: $4,000 annual fee.
The CCG quarterly sessions are a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local Heads of Learning & Talent Development Leaders. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization.
You can view our CCG F.A.Q’s which provides an overview for what's included and contact us if the Head of Learning or Talent Development in your organization would like to sign-up for our quarterly, 8-hour sessions.
New 2010 format: Afternoon formal meeting followed by an informal CLO/CTO Dinner.
Click here to request an Individual CLO/CTO Group Membership.
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Individual ELE Membership: $1,500 annual fee.
Included: one registration to annual conference, unlimited access to web-based archives, $1,200 discount for Learning Leaders CPE Certificate @ DePaul program and $100 discount to monthly peer-networking events.
Click here to purchase an Individual ELE Membership.
Note: Learning Leaders with non-active membership status can attend three events annually by paying the published non-member registration fee or as a guest by invitation of the peer-networking event’s host.
If you attended our learning leaders conference and then decide to become a member, we can back date an annual enterprise membership and apply a 100% credit of the conference fees paid towards the annual membership fee if completed within 60 days of the conference.
Requests for refunds can be sent to Dirk.Tussing@learningexecutive.com. The refund for your annual fees will be pro-rated as a percentage of the remaining months left in the year.
What are this year's objectives?
The objectives for the next year are:- Continue to produce the
annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference held in the Fall (the last conference was on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009).
- Partner with DePaul University with a 20 week Learning Leaders CPE certificate program available online or in-classroom.
- Coordinate two two-hour peer-networking case studies per month at member corporate headquarters (click Events menu above to view our online calendar).
- Coordinate a two-hour virtual case study meeting per month facilitated by local thought facilities.
- Provide online archives of the presentations from the 2005 - 2009 Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conferences.
What other cities are peer-networking events scheduled?
We are experimenting extending our peer-networking breakfasts to Milwaukee and Indianapolis. If you are interested in hosting a session, feel free to contact us.
What is a Learning Leader?
A learning leader is commonly employed in a management role within the learning/training and talent function of an organization. The role of the learning leader typically involves the management of the training/learning function of the organization or department. Just as importantly, the learning leader also supports and promotes innovation and change in the organizational culture(Argrys, On Organizational Learning, 1999) and helps drive business objectives in the area of learning and development (Wick et al, The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning, 2006).
Key competencies for a learning leader are: -
Knowledge of learning theories, concepts and application
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Business acumen (Green, Raymond, Beyond Financial Literacy)
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Customer relationship management
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General management experience
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Strategic leadership
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Technologically resourceful (Brave New World 2000)
A learning leader combines these competencies to drive higher performance and create strong business outcomes and results (Schooley, Claire, Learning Director: Are You Ready For Your New Role? 2007).
Typically, the most senior learning leader in an organization is the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) who controls allocation of learning resources and budgets.
What are the centralized resources provided by the Executive Learning Exchange?
The Executive Learning Exchange provides centralized logistics for local thought leaders to share their talent management initiatives with peers (i.e., coordinates event registration, keeps up a database of email addresses for sending out announcements, and maintains an online repository of case studies contributed by local thought leaders).
What online resources are available?
There are two general online areas available on www.LearningExecutive.com:
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Public-Area which includes a calendar of upcoming events (click here), FAQs (click here), and insight from a revolving pool of Chicagoland thought leaders (click here).
- Member-Area which includes case studies (case studies) with slides, handouts, and multi-media audio files from past events we helped produce. You will be prompted to enter your corporate's email address in order to enter our member area. After your email address is validated, your browser should have a Microsoft media player with a play button you can click to hear the audio. You can also Click on either the mp3
 or wma  icons to download an audio file to your computer. Mp3 files can be drag-and-dropped to your mobile device so you can listen while traveling.
What are the benefits for my company joining the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Consortium?
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Promote your leading projects through peer networking interactions.
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Learn from Chicagoland peers best practices that can be applied.
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Take advantage of centralized coordination resources for your organization’s benefit.
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Priority participation in on-going events ($100 savings per person per event).
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Unlimited access to web-based resources, archived presentations, etc.
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Three registrations to the next Annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference (a $2,400 value) and 65% discount off addl. conference registrations (over $500 savings per registration).
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Online videos of Keynotes & CLO Roundtables ($1,500 value).
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10%-20% discounts on products and services from solution provider members.
Can I view FAQs for my Company Hosting a peer-networking breakfast?
Yes, you can view FAQs for Hosting a peer-networking event by clicking here.
How do Enterprise members submit attendee lists for the annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference?
A benefit for keeping your enterprise membership to the Chicagoland Learning Leader Consortium current allows deep discounts to the next annual conference is planned to be held at Q Center in Oct./Nov. 2010. This is especially valuable when for enterprises with four or more learning leaders. To obtain the lowest registration fees, we appreciate if your enterprise would provide a centralized resource for coordinating registrations.
Here is how the process works.
Your centralized registration coordinator should use an MS-Excel worksheet to provide the following: First Name, Last Name, Job Title, Email Address, and Work Phone.
You can create your own MS-Excel worksheet or
click here to download a registration worksheet from our website.
You can email your list of proposed attendees to registrations@learningexecutive.com. We will send you an additional invoice if necessary and we’ll be accepting 350 registrations before putting people on a wait list.
The pricing for organizations with enterprise memberships:
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Your first three conference attendees are free as part of the annual Executive Learning Exchange Enterprise membership fee, and
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More enterprise members can register additional conference attendees for only $250 each (approximately 65% discount) for each additional attendee.
What are the proposed code of conduct and basic operating principles for members?
Success will be achieved through highly participatory members taking the lead by sharing lessons learned and hosting peer networking events. Members are encouraged to proactively seek out and create peer networking opportunities, promote corporate goodwill by hosting events, and provide company discounts to other members. Individual learning leaders are welcomed to join and participate, and to champion enterprise memberships for their organizations.
Members are not allowed to “sell products and services” in an unprofessional manner and will not be asked to renew membership if problems arise. Periodically we will have formal sponsor opportunities (e.g., exhibitors at a large conference) which will provide solution providers with a venue to market their products and services to the members at large.
How do I view agendas, abstracts & photos for previous annual Learning Leaders Conferences?
You can view .pdf abstracts and agendas for our annual conferences using the following links:
How do I add my email address to receive announcements?
To have Executive Learning Exchange automatically send you future announcements, click here to add your name & email address.
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