Develop the Subtraction Muscle: Why Investing in Your Leaders Today Is the Only Way to Shape Tomorrow
Monday, May 18, 2026 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM · 1 hr. (America/Los_Angeles)
Room 303AB, Level Two
Solution Session (Provider-Led Education)
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Your leaders aren't failing because they're doing too little. They're failing because they're doing too much, and it's making them reactive when the future demands they be grounded and creative.
The organizations that will shape what's next aren't adding more development, more initiatives, more oversight. They're creating the conditions for leaders to pause, reflect, and cut with precision.
In this interactive session, leadership advisor and Subtraction Activist Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey (Nell3D) guides participants through Systematic Subtraction™ and her Stop · Drop · Roll process, showing how the disciplines at the heart of serious leadership development (rigorous self-assessment, evidence-based experimentation, and peer accountability) are exactly what it takes to lead proactively rather than reactively. Leave with a framework to bring back to your leaders, and a concrete subtraction to make this week.
The organizations that will shape what's next aren't adding more development, more initiatives, more oversight. They're creating the conditions for leaders to pause, reflect, and cut with precision.
In this interactive session, leadership advisor and Subtraction Activist Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey (Nell3D) guides participants through Systematic Subtraction™ and her Stop · Drop · Roll process, showing how the disciplines at the heart of serious leadership development (rigorous self-assessment, evidence-based experimentation, and peer accountability) are exactly what it takes to lead proactively rather than reactively. Leave with a framework to bring back to your leaders, and a concrete subtraction to make this week.
Learning Objective 1:
Use data and reflection to identify where leadership energy is leaking in your organization.
Learning Objective 2:
Practice Stop-Drop-Roll to identify what leaders should subtract to expand their impact.
Learning Objective 3:
Design a subtraction experiment you can try, starting with identifying the support you need for the Stop step, whether self-directed reflection, internal mentorship, or external learning and development.
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