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Bill Furlong (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-furlong-0689753/) is a distinguished finance and leadership expert who served as Vice Chair at TD Securities and now advances character-based leadership through his work with Ivey Business School, Leader Character Associates, and various governance roles.
Quotes From Bill
• "If you want to get an early warning sense of where this organization is going to go, if you have a good sense of what the character of the leadership and the board is like, you're going to have a very good sense as to where the organization is going to go over the two to five year time frame."
• "Once you've rewired your brain, you become basically a different person, but now you become the different person that you've always wanted to be, one with enormous strength and character."
• "Directors are brought onto boards for their judgment—and judgment is rooted in character.”
• "You don’t need elite credentials to build character. It’s available to anyone willing to put in the reps."
• "I think we underestimate the degree to which we can change the context we're in. One person can shift the whole room."
• "The culture of an organization is really the aggregate of the character of its people."
• "Virtuosity gives me the structure I need—without it, I’d probably be a D in character development."
Resources

• Leader Character Associates (https://leadercharacterassociates.com/)
• Question of Character podcast (https://www.questionofcharacter.com/)
• 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/8505b936-d1fd-4b36-96ed-62663e1c5b9a.pdf)

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.