Here's some feedback: sentences like "getting feedback is essential toward driving change" are the reason nobody likes IBM.

"Change", as used here, is a noun based on the verb "to change". If your sentence calls for a verb, you can just go back to the original "to change".

Something isn't essential "toward" something else. It is essential "for" something else.

"is essential" is unnecessarily passive. Use active verbs.

"getting feedback" is slightly wrong, because what you need is the feedback, not the act of getting it.

"At the same time" is used here because it sounds smarter than "but". Don't do that.

Try this: "Change needs feedback".