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What does partnership have to do with character development, leadership, and lasting change?
Kelly Kiel Garramone—CEO and Research Practice Lead at KRW International—and Mark Chow—a Singapore-based consultant, coach, and global leader—join us to explore how partnership can accelerate growth and make character development come alive.
As total strangers on opposite sides of the world, they entered the Virtuosity Program and turned its “partnership” feature into what they now call central to their growth experience. What began as a simple pairing evolved into a friendship built on curiosity, accountability, and shared reflection—proof that even across distance, character connects.
🧠 What you’ll hear:
🤝 How intentional partnership became the core engine of their Virtuosity experience
📅 The weekly cadence, life-story exercise, and reflection-sharing that deepened trust and insight
🌍 How two people—from Singapore and Washington—built a friendship rooted in curiosity and accountability
💡 The character dimensions that made it work: accountability, collaboration, integrity, humility, and courage
⚖️ Why judgment became their integrating center for real-life choices
💬 Their best advice for building partnerships that accelerate growth—starting with choosing someone outside your inner circle
🌱 Why partnership transforms character from something personal into something relational and alive
Resources
• KRW International (https://krw-intl.com/)
• Life Story Exercise by KRW International (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e2934b8-3e20-47a7-aa79-59a612f967be/73df68bc-3dbc-451a-8528-e4ea5c669362.pdf)
• River of Life Exercise by Trainings (https://trainings.350.org/resource/river-of-life/)
• Leader Character Framework with Culture, Virtues, and Vices (https://virtuositycharacter.ca/organization/storage_production_6e2934b8-3e20-47a7-aa79-59a612f967be/990340a0-9980-4919-9456-ab5640b405a0.pdf)

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.