(5.10) Leadership: A Profound Expression of Empathy & Compassion

About this episode

This episode explores the role of empathy and compassion in leadership and challenges the notion of social barriers.

Send us a message! It's easy to dismiss social barriers as inevitable - the natural friction that comes with 'being different'. But it's much harder to look directly at the systems that keep people unseen, unheard, and separate from opportunity. But what if the work of genuine leadership offered something far more radical: not the removal of barriers through policy or process alone, but the daily practice of seeing people in their wholeness, and moving with them through the discomfort of that...

People in this episode

Hosts: Paul Garcia, KG Butler

Topics covered

• leadership
• empathy
• compassion
• social barriers
• opportunity
• discomfort

Keywords

• leadership
• empathy
• compassion
• social barriers
• opportunity
• discomfort

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