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Chuck Ansell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-ansell-00370185/), currently serving as the School Chief Warrant Officer at the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Control Operations, sits down with Corey to share insights on how he's embedding character leadership into their education and leadership training.

Quotes From Chuck

• "We make sure that junior leaders, intermediate leaders, and senior leaders, all understand what their character looks like and learn about how they can recognize it in other people."
• "I send out a weekly character email that takes a topic, whether it's a character virtue or vice, then discuss it, define it, and explain how it can impact the mission and the team."
• "Our annual evaluations have changed to a character and competency-based evaluation - so character is in our evaluations."
• "[Virtuosity] provides the information, it provides the avenue to track your progress, and asks you the questions that we should be thinking about to change a habit."

Resources

• 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)
• Seven Strategies for Character Development (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e2934b8-3e20-47a7-aa79-59a612f967be/fa001ea5-006e-4e0e-8f68-c4fc2d671aae.pdf)
• Five Stages for Character Development (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e2934b8-3e20-47a7-aa79-59a612f967be/97cf5062-

About Virtuosity

• Website (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/)
• Monthly Newsletter (https://mailchi.mp/virtuositycharacter/subscribe-to-the-virtuosity-monthly-newsletter)
• LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/virtuosity-character)
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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.