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By William F. Nazzaro, founder of The Time to Lead Institute, leadership expert, and trusted advisor to leaders navigating transformation and cultural change.

📣 This piece is designed to be shared with leadership teams, change agents, and culture champions. Use it in conversations, coaching sessions, or offsites where resistance shows up—and clarity is needed.

If you’ve ever tried to lead real change, you already know resistance doesn’t just show up—it escalates.
In Part 1, we unpacked the four predictable stages: ignore, ridicule, attack, and dilute.
Now, it’s time to turn inward toward what it takes to keep going when things get hard.

This part is about staying anchored, protecting your integrity, and learning to navigate resistance as it shows up in people, not just in processes.

When It Gets Hard (And It Will)

This isn’t just professionally hard, it’s soul work. The kind that keeps you up at night, questioning if it’s worth it.

Confidence wavers. ...