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What does it take to move a system from simply knowing what matters to living it out daily?

Manisha Patel—leadership educator, senior faculty member, and advocate for integrated growth—joins us to explore the shift from raising awareness to embedding development within the Canadian Armed Forces.

🧠 What you’ll hear:
📖 Why awareness is only the first step—and not the hardest one
🧩 How development gains traction when people find the right words and structure
🛠️ The challenge of turning short-term training into long-term change
🗣️ What happens when others' feedback reveals gaps in our self-perception
📱 How daily tools like the Virtuosity app help turn insight into action
🏛️ The slow but promising shift toward embedding development in institutional practice
🧭 Why progress depends on patience, buy-in, and leadership from the top

If you're leading inside a system—or trying to build one where growth isn't just encouraged but expected—this episode is a must-listen.

Resources

• Canadian Armed Forces Ethos: Character In The Profession of Arms (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/canadian-armed-forces-ethos-trusted-to-serve.html)
• Character Quotient Assessment in Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/marycrossan/2025/03/26/from-good-to-great-10-ways-to-elevate-your-character-quotient/)
• Leader Character Framework with Culture, Virtues, and Vices (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e2934b8-3e20-47a7-aa79-59a612f967be/990340a0-9980-4919-9456-ab5640b405a0.pdf)

About Virtuosity

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Host, Dr Corey Crossan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreycrossan/), is a research and teaching fellow at The Oxford Character Project where she develops and facilitates character development programs for students, industry, and university partners. Corey’s love for elite performance developed as she competed in top-level athletics for most of her life, highlighted by competing as a NCAA Division 1 athlete. Corey translated her understanding of elite performance into a passion for helping individuals and organizations develop sustained excellence. 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.