Ron Carucci

Confidence 0.70 · 1 source · last confirmed 2026-05-07

Cofounder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change. Author of 10 books, including To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Trust, Justice and Purpose (Kogan Page, 2021). Practitioner-focused HBR contributor on leadership and organizational change.

Appears in this wiki via

• 2026-05-07-carucci-resistance-as-data — sole author of Leaders, Treat Resistance to Change as Valuable Data (HBR.org Digital, 20 April 2026). Argues that all resistance to change is meaningful data; introduces a four-category typology (Loss / Anxiety / Lack of control / Flaws in change) for diagnosing what pushback is signalling, and a “Holding the Line” framework for distinguishing signal from sustained behavioural problems.

Source-quality note

The piece is opinion / consulting wisdom, not empirical research. No studies, no surveys, no data points are cited. Treat the four-category typology as a useful working framework but a single-source heuristic until a second source corroborates it. Carucci’s body of work (10 books, ~20 years of executive consulting) is a credibility signal, but not a substitute for empirical anchoring.

Open questions

• Carucci’s other books and HBR pieces — substantial output (10 books) but currently single-source coverage in this wiki.
• Whether Navalent should be promoted to an entity page (currently dangling). A 2nd source mentioning the firm or its work would tip the case.
• Whether the four-category resistance typology has empirical validation in the academic change-management literature (Kotter, Heifetz, etc.) — relevant if the wiki ever creates a change-management concept page that synthesizes Carucci with peer-reviewed work.