Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead - whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors - a greater understanding of character will challenge your thinking, inspire new ideas, and elevate your personal and professional performance. Character: What Contemporary Leaders Can Teach Us about Building a More Just, Prosperous, and Sustainable Future provides an exceptional opportunity to become a better leader by applying the extraordinary yet down-to-earth insights from the authors' accessible scholarship and interviews with truly distinguished leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen. Character argues that while competencies reflect what a leader can do, character determines what a leader will do. Character combines the insights from the authors' scholarship and interviews with leaders whose lessons on building stronger societies through character-based leadership are moving, powerful, and evergreen. Gerard Seijts is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and holds the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute Chair in Leadership at the Ivey Business School, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He lives in London, Ontario. Kimberley Young Milani is the Director of Ivey's Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership and the former director of the Institute for Women in Leadership at Brescia University College, Western University. Kimberley is a graduate of the University of Toronto and University of Oxford. She lives in London, Ontario. Sales and Market Bullets - THOUGHT LEADERS: Since its inception in 2010, the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University has been a global force in research, thought, and education around the importance of character alongside competence in the practice of leadership. - INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: Ivey Business School has campuses in London, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (which recently received a $30M expansion gift), and Hong Kong. - OVER A DOZEN INTERVIEWS WITH GLOBAL LEADERS: The reader can learn how character informs the best leadership practices and delivers positive outcomes for business, government, non-profits, and civil society organizations, and apply these skills to their own work. Interviewees include: - Erika Cheung, Theranos whistleblower, founder and executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship - Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, president (retd.) of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom - Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange - Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever - Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders, former president of Ireland, former UN high commissioner on human rights - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, author, and broadcaster

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