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.
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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 engineering, education, and the future of tech? Everything.
Elisabeth Arnold Weiss—associate professor of technical communication at USC Viterbi, character-education innovator, and former acrobat(!)—joins us to explore how character isn’t an “add-on” to engineering, but the accelerant that makes trustworthy technology and resilient people possible.
Drawing on 25+ years teaching engineers, athletics-forged grit, and fresh insights from the Virtuosity program and Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative, Elisabeth shows how to weave virtues into packed curricula, high-stakes industries like aviation, and everyday life—from studios to classrooms to parenting.
🧠 What you’ll hear:
🧬 Why character is intrinsic to being human—and to practical wisdom and judgment
🎬 How stories (and great films) mirror character transformation
🏗️ Why tech’s speed & power demand human-centric engineers we can trust
✖️ The formula: Competence × Character = Trust (and faster ethical decisions)
🏋️ Athletics as a forge for humility, courage, discipline—and high-performance mindsets
🧱 The “tight curriculum” problem—and Elisabeth’s fix: broad infusion across courses, labs, and co-curriculars
🧭 New USC initiatives: a Freshman Academy character module, the Engineer-23 milestone framework, TEAM (Teaching Engineers Athletes’ Mindset), industry exemplar talks, and “Keys to Life” purpose walks
🛫 Inside aviation safety: linking leader character to communication, culture, and mortal-stakes decisions
📲 How Virtuosity’s daily habit-stacking made character a lived operating system (not a lecture)
👩🏫 Why educators must practice what they teach—and model growth in public
👪 A surprising parenting takeaway: candour and consistency as acts of integrity
If you care about building trustworthy tech, teaching the next generation, or simply growing your own judgment in a machine-shaped world—this conversation will both ground and stretch you.
Resources
• Educating Character Initiative (https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/eci/)
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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