The dizzying pace of change today is accompanied by growing uncertainty. We humans are uncomfortable with uncertainty and change. How can compassionate leaders break through resistance to change? By keeping humans at the center, creating learning culture, leading collaboratively, and practicing courageous compassion.

In this third post in our series on creating your own compassionate leadership roadmap, we turn from the dimensions of individual compassionate leadership and organizational compassionate cultures covered in weeks one and two to the tools and levers to use to build and implement your action plan.

On the occasion of #woodstock50, Laura Berland reflects on how the familiar lyrics of The Who’s rock opera, Tommy, align perfectly with the compassionate path from awareness, to empathy, to compassionate action, to transformation.