In today’s complex and fast-changing world, technical competence alone isn’t enough. What truly differentiates exceptional leaders, employees and organizations is character.
Join us for this engaging discussion, “Leading with Character,” designed for HR executives who are shaping the future of leadership and performance in their organizations. Grounded in the Leader Character Framework, this session explores the dimensions of leader character that underpin sound judgment and well-being and that ultimately lead to trust and sustained organizational performance.
We will explore practical insights into how character can be developed, assessed, and embedded across leadership, culture, and people systems. You’ll also reflect on your own character strengths and opportunities to influence the leaders you support.
Learning Objectives:
- Define leader character, how it can be developed and distinguished from competencies and personality
- Recognize the dimensions of leader character from the Ivey Leader Character Framework
- Understand how character drives judgment, culture, and long-term success, personally, professionally and organizationally
- Identify actions HR can take to embed character into leadership development, selection, and culture-shaping initiatives
- Reflect on personal and organizational opportunities to strengthen leader character
Who should attend this program?
HR professionals/executives and Senior HR leaders
Registration Difficulties/Questions: Please reach out to the Professional Development team at PDwebinars@hrpa.ca
Speaker(s)
Dr. Mary Crossan
Dr. Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Mary’s passion for the past four decades has been to address the most pressing problems facing individuals and organizations and to uncover the “atomic particles” at their core. Leveraging the incredible synergistic insights arising from research, teaching and application, her ground-breaking research and innovative, yet practical application in education and organizations, provide the unique insights and expertise that underpin the work of Leader Character Associates. She was recognized for her life-time career achievement by the Academy of Management, receiving the 2023 Award for Distinguished Educator.
Corey Crossan
Corey Crossan 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. Her research examines how character can be developed and its impact on performance and well-being. Her undergraduate work in Exercise Science inspired her unique application of exercise and habit development towards her research that shed light on what it takes to implement a daily practice of character development. 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.
Randa MacNaughton
Randa MacNaughton is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, and brings extensive and diverse experience in organizational development, both as an employee and consultant, having worked with leaders and teams in Europe, North America and APAC, coaching and empowering them towards high performance. Randa’s consulting and coaching philosophy is anchored in the conviction that leadership character is foundational to effective leadership, employee engagement and a thriving organizational culture. She has personally experienced of strengthening her own character along her leadership journey. Her approach is anchored in helping others generate greater self awareness and reflection about who they are, and how that inner compass shows up in their action, especially as they respond to challenges. Leaders with strength of character inspire confidence, foster loyalty and create lasting impact.