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Dr. Dusya Vera is the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership and Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School at Western University, Ontario. Her research has connected leader character to areas such as strategic leadership, organizational learning, and organizational improvisation. She is also the Executive Director of Ivey’s Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, which is a global leader in research, teaching and outreach regarding the awareness, development, and application of leader character. Learn more at www.ivey.ca/leadership.
Dr. Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University, Ontario. She is also a co-founder of Leader Character Associates, Virtuosity Character and co-host of the “Question of Character” podcast. In 2021 she was recognized in the top two percent of researchers in her field and in 2023 she received a life-time achievement award from the Academy of Management as a Distinguished Educator. Her new book, with co-authors Gerald Seijts and Bill Furlong, is The Character Compass: Transforming Leadership for the 21st Century (Routledge, Oct. 30, 2023). Learn more at