The Neuroscience Of Change For Leaders

The Neuroscience Of Change For Leaders

June 24, 2026 · 1h 4m

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The episode explores the neuroscience behind resistance to change in leadership contexts with expert Travis Halher.

Change sounds exciting until you’re the one who has to do it. When leaders announce a new direction, most teams don’t hear a strategy deck, they hear a threat to safety, competence, and stability. We sit down with Travis Halher, a change and transformation leader with a neuroscience background and the author of Rethink Resistance, to explain what’s really happening in the brain when people push back and why “resistance isn’t rebellion, it’s biology.” We dig into the uncomfortable truth...

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