The Virtuosity Podcast
The Virtuosity Podcast
Podcast Description
Every choice builds character. On the Virtuosity Podcast, we explore how to make every day a rep toward excellence. Dr. Corey Crossan, your host and co-founder of Virtuosity, began in sport, where she discovered that strengthening character didn’t just improve her performance—it transformed her entire life. Since then, Corey has been gripped with understanding how we can intentionally build character to fuel both personal and professional success.At Virtuosity, we believe character is like a muscle—it needs consistent training. That’s why we’ve built a research-based system that acts as your character gym, making character development practical, scalable, and accessible—even within the largest organizations.On this podcast, we sit down with participants from our flagship Virtuosity program, where individuals commit to a full year of daily character development, powered by Virtuosity. Our guests will share why character matters to them, how they’re applying it in their personal and professional lives, and the insights they’ve gained along the way.We hope these conversations challenge, inspire, and equip you with new ways to integrate character into your own journey. Subscribe to stay up to date with our weekly episodes, and if something resonates, share it with your friends and colleagues.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast centers on themes of character development, leadership, and personal growth, featuring topics like building character in educational settings and the impact of character on leadership styles. Episodes may include insights from guests on practical applications of character virtues in everyday life.
Every choice builds character. On the Virtuosity Podcast, we explore how to make every day a rep toward excellence. Dr. Corey Crossan, your host and co-founder of Virtuosity, began in sport, where she discovered that strengthening character didn’t just improve her performance—it transformed her entire life. Since then, Corey has been gripped with understanding how we can intentionally build character to fuel both personal and professional success.
At Virtuosity, we believe character is like a muscle—it needs consistent training. That’s why we’ve built a research-based system that acts as your character gym, making character development practical, scalable, and accessible—even within the largest organizations.
On this podcast, we sit down with participants from our flagship Virtuosity program, where individuals commit to a full year of daily character development, powered by Virtuosity. Our guests will share why character matters to them, how they’re applying it in their personal and professional lives, and the insights they’ve gained along the way.
We hope these conversations challenge, inspire, and equip you with new ways to integrate character into your own journey. Subscribe to stay up to date with our weekly episodes, and if something resonates, share it with your friends and colleagues.
What does character have to do with leadership in medicine—and why are competencies alone no longer enough?
Dr. Jacqueline Torti, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Western University, joins Corey for a grounded conversation on character-based leadership in health professions education. She explores how character shows up in small, often unseen moments that shape trust, teamwork, and patient care.
A central focus of the episode is Jacqueline’s work leading a year-long character-based leadership course for medical residents—later expanded to early-career physicians due to overwhelming demand. She shares why residents were craving space, psychological safety, and community, how the course created meaningful connection in fast-paced clinical environments, and what surprised her most when studying its impact.
🧠 What you’ll hear:
🔥 Why character elevates clinical competence rather than competing with it
🏥 How a year-long character-based leadership course created connection, reflection, and demand across medical training
🤝 What research revealed about community and belonging as key outcomes of character development
⚖️ How Jacqueline responds to skepticism and pushback around character in medicine
❤️ Personal reflections on parenting, habituation, and sustaining character across contexts
Resources
• Sultan et al. (2019). Leadership development in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review of the literature. Academic Medicine, 94(3), 440-449. (https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/abstract/2019/03000/leadership_development_in_postgraduate_medical.37.aspx)
• Torti et al. (2022). Perspectives on physician leadership: the role of character‐based leadership in medicine. Medical Education, 56(12), 1184-1193. (https://asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/medu.14875)
• Leader Character Framework with Culture, Virtues, and Vices (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e293
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)
• Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/virtuositycharacter/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
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.
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