The Executives' Club of Chicago Names EX3 Lead AI Learning Partner

Partnership brings practical artificial intelligence (AI) learning to professionals and organizations across Chicago's business community.

CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Executives' Club of Chicago today announced EX3, a Chicago-based hybrid intelligence company, as its Lead AI Learning Partner, bringing new AI learning and development opportunities to leaders, professionals, and organizations across Chicago's business community.

The skills required to succeed in business are changing. The World Economic Forum identifies AI and big data as the fastest-growing skills through 2030, alongside continued demand for human capabilities including analytical thinking, creative thinking, resilience, and leadership. For the Executives' Club, that underscores the importance of helping people build the skills to succeed as work changes and helping organizations develop the talent they need to compete and grow.

Through the partnership, the Club and EX3 will provide practical, applied learning designed to help individuals build AI fluency, leaders understand its implications for their businesses, and organizations develop AI capability across their teams. Opportunities will be open to professionals across industries and career stages, with a focus on connecting AI to real work, real decisions, and real business priorities.

"AI is creating incredible possibilities for how we work, lead, and grow — and we want more people to feel ready to take advantage of them," said Dorri McWhorter, President and CEO of the Executives' Club of Chicago. "That means creating more ways for people to keep learning, build new capabilities, and grow alongside one another throughout their careers. Our partnership with EX3 brings that to life — connecting practical learning with the ideas and community that help people turn what's changing in business into opportunity."

The partnership advances the Club's evolution as an integrated leadership platform at the intersection of leadership development and the business community. By bringing together practical learning, expertise, and a cross-industry community, the Club is creating more ways for organizations to develop their people and for professionals to build the capabilities they need to put AI to work and turn change into opportunity.

"Many leaders and professionals are still treating AI as a tool to learn. The ones pulling ahead are treating it as a new way to operate," said Adam Wisniewski, CEO of EX3. "That's Hybrid Intelligence: human ingenuity and AI working as one system, so people and the organizations they lead move faster, decide with more confidence, and adapt without breaking what works. For more than a century, the Executives' Club has been where Chicago's leaders come together to shape what's next, and we couldn't be more excited to partner with them. Together, we're providing members with the AI learning, playbooks, and operating models they need for this next era."

The partnership comes to life this fall with three hands-on workshops: Developing Your Personal AI Strategy on Thursday, October 29, Agentic AI for Enterprise Leaders on Wednesday, November 11, and A Professional Guide: Which AI Should I Use — and When? on Tuesday, December 1. These workshops are the beginning of a broader, growing portfolio of AI learning opportunities, giving individuals and organizations multiple ways to build capability as the technology, its applications, and the skills required to use it continue to evolve.

About the Executives' Club
As the region's premier leadership organization, the Executives' Club of Chicago connects and ignites leaders to advance business and humanity. For more than a century, the Club has served as a platform and resource for executives who want to build what's next, make their mark, and move the world forward. For more information, visit executivesclub.org.

About EX3
EX3 is a Hybrid Intelligence company that helps executives, professionals and organizations design operating models for the AI era, where human ingenuity and artificial intelligence work as one system. The company has designed human-centered learning experiences for more than 50,000 professionals and advised more than 100 Fortune 500 companies and public-sector organizations across health and life sciences, government, energy, consumer goods and technology, including Microsoft, P&G, BP, Mars and the City of Chicago. EX3 operates immersive learning labs and AI training centers in Chicago and Tampa. Learn more at www.ex3.inc

Media Contacts

Katy Broom

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Executives' Club 
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Zebrina Lee
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EX3
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SOURCE The Executives' Club of Chicago