From Resistance to Resilience

How to Accept Change, Stay Grounded, and Build What Comes Next

Change can upend your business, your rhythm, and your sense of direction. When you run your own show, there’s no playbook for how to respond. Resistance shows up as stress, distraction, and second-guessing.

This session offers a way through.

Stuart Preston shares how he rebuilt after personal loss and how the same approach can help you regain clarity and forward motion in your work. You’ll learn how to lead yourself through change with steadiness, creativity, and intention.

You’ll leave with three specific actions:

This session is for entrepreneurs and small business leaders who want to show up with more purpose—especially when the path ahead isn’t clear.

Workshop Facilitated by Stuart "Zero" Preston with Cingularis

Stuart Preston is an AI consultant, speaker, author and founder of Cingularis, a Gilbert-based company focused on helping small businesses apply AI with clarity, confidence, and heart. Through custom AI tools, workshops, and The Cingularis AI Lab, he helps entrepreneurs use AI in ways that are practical, approachable, and deeply human.



Stuart is a graduate of Gilbert Leadership Class 14 and Class 34.