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What If We Subtracted… Coercion?

A Subtraction Session with April Mills: Stop Driving People. Start Driving Change.

If you’ve ever been voluntold into doing a ‘special project’…
If your calendar has been colonized by other people’s priorities…
If you’ve tried to “drive change” and accidentally just drove people off a cliff…

Then this conversation is a gift. 🎁

April Mills learned this the hard way: as a 23-year-old nuclear engineer turning mandatory meeting invites into organizational duct tape right after 9/11. Spoiler: they stopped showing up.

Two decades later, she’s teaching CEOs and change agents worldwide something quietly radical: subtract coercion. Replace it with invitation.

In this Subtraction Session, April breaks down:

  • Why “driving people” always fails (and what to do instead)

  • How to heal organizational scar tissue without adding more time

  • Win-win-wins that actually compound

  • The change agent’s motto that replaces waiting with action:

“I will do what I can with what I have where I am.”

This one’s for anyone who’s exhausted by adding initiatives on top of burnt-out teams—and ready to subtract the brutalism that passes for leadership.

Pour a cup of your favorite winter ‘nog, subtract the shame/blame/add-more instinct… and join us.

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