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Dr. Mary Crossan and Bill Furlong

Dr. Mary Crossan and Bill Furlong

Dr. Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Ivey Business School, Western University. In 2021, she was recognized on a global list representing the top two per cent of the most cited scientists in her discipline, and in 2023, she received the life-time career achievement Academy of Management Distinguished Educator award. Her research on leader character, organizational learning and strategic renewal, and improvisation is published in over 100 articles and books. She is co-author, along with Bill Furlong and Gerard Seijts of The Character Compass (October 30, 2023). You can follow her on LinkedIn. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc, and founder and co-host with Mary Crossan of the Question of Character podcast. He is a director of the CAA Group of Companies, an adjudicator with the Capital Markets Tribunal, and from 2015 to 2019 was a commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Dr. Mary Crossan and Bill Furlong are an opinion columnists for the CEOWORLD magazine. Learn more at Leader Character Associates.
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Character – The Aerodynamics of Leadership

Banking and FinanceDr. Mary Crossan and Bill Furlong
The history of flight over thousands of years is replete with disastrous stories of people trying to fly by emulating birds. Even the term aviation stems from the Latin words for bird “avis” and “ation,” meaning action. It was not until 1846 that Sir George Cayley began to articulate the...