Rick Maurer

Rick Maurer is a change management author, speaker, and advisor who has spent more than three decades helping leaders and their teams understand and address resistance to organizational change. He is known for his “three levels of resistance” model and for working with executives and consultants to turn resistance and indifference into support for major change initiatives.

Maurer is the author of Why Don’t You Want What I Want? How to Win Support for Your Ideas Without Hard Sell, Manipulation, or Power Plays, published by Bard Press in 2002, as well as several other books on leading change, including Beyond the Wall of Resistance, The Building Capacity for Change Sourcebook, and Seizing Moments of Possibility. His work draws on psychology, management, mediation, negotiation, and related disciplines to provide practical tools for implementing change while paying close attention to the human side of organizations.