Dr. Mary Crossan and Corey Crossan - Building Better Leaders: How Character Outshines Competence

Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

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Corey Crossan is a research and teaching fellow at The Oxford Character Project where she develops and facilitates character development programs for students and industry. She is also the co-founder of Virtuosity Character, a mobile software application created to support the daily, deliberate practice of character-based leadership development.

Dr. Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University, Ontario. She is also a co-founder of Virtuosity Character and co-host of the “Question of Character” podcast.

A Quote From This Episode

• "We discovered that it wasn’t a failure of competence, but largely this failure of character.”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• App: Virtuosity Character
• Mary Crossan on Google Scholar
• Movie: Freud's Last Lessons
• Book: The Science of Motivating Young People by Yeager

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