ExO Launchpad:
Preparing your Transformation Team for Summer Institute 

At the 2026 Summer Institute, your Transformation Team will develop a real exponential organizations (ExO) initiative for your organization — ready to test when you get home.

The ExO Launchpad is where that work begins.

In three virtual sessions, with fieldwork between them, your team will identify the high-value problems worth solving — by listening to employers, observing students, and mapping the untapped opportunities in your community. That groundwork will become the raw material your team brings to Albuquerque.

Three fieldwork opportunities to get your team ready:

1. Find your compass: Each person on your team will draft and test their own Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) — the statement that orients what you care about. 

2. Hear your customers: Have real conversations with the two voices that matter most for Summer Institute: employers with workforce challenges and students who want to make a living. 

3. Observe your customer's challenge in action: Observe how employers and students actually experience the challenges they described. 

Before arriving at the Summer Institute, your team will also build a context package about your organization — its business model, programming, market dynamics, and performance - that powers your AI-assisted work in Albuquerque.

How each session works:

Each session follows a three-part rhythm: preparation, briefing, and fieldwork.

• Prepare: A curated read/watch assignment from Exponential Organizations 2.0 and the ExO Master Class video series — building shared language before each session.

• Brief: A 90-minute virtual session with your peers — part discussion, part briefing for the fieldwork ahead.

• Fieldwork: An action learning assignment to complete before the next session, building the field data and insight your team carries to Albuquerque.

Until your team hears a customer describe, in their own words, their challenge and its high cost to them - your team won't make progress. But once they truly get the customer's pain, a good team is activated to accomplish the seemingly impossible.

• Session 1: Tuesday, June 9 at 1:00 - 2:30 PM/EDT | See details »
• Session 2: Tuesday, June 23 at 1:00 - 2:30 PM/EDT | See details »
• Session 3: Tuesday, July 14 at 1:00 - 2:30 PM/EDT | See details »

Facilitators:

• Ann Ralston, Ralston Consulting Inc.

• Gary Ralston, Ralston Consulting Inc.

Who's Invited:

• AFIT member CEOs, Reps, and colleagues at your organization

We especially encourage your 2026 Summer Institute Transformation Team members to participate. 

Registration Fee:

$400 per organization (up to 30 participants)

Registration: Each organization should select one designated person to complete the registration.

Only one registration is required per organization.

After registering, the registrant will receive the Zoom link and event details and is responsible for sharing them with their team (up to 30 participants).

Cancellation Policy: This is a non-refundable event.