Bio
Corey Crossan is the Assistant Director of Programming and Research Scholar for the Program for Leadership and Character and supports student-athletes at Wake Forest. She also works in partnership with the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation to promote leadership and character development through youth golf programs around the world. Crossan is also 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, well-being, and organizational transformation. 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.