Your Personal Virtue Audit: Seeing Yourself Clearly

In this episode of The Leadership Telos, we walk through one of the most essential practices in virtuous leadership: the Personal Virtue Audit. This reflective process helps you examine who you are becoming, how you are leading, and where your growth edges lie across the four core domains of the Virtuous Cycle.Drawing from the original 19 virtues in the Virtuous Leadership Model, we explore how each virtue functions as a diagnostic lens—revealing not only strengths and blind spots, but also how aligned you are with your telos, your relationships, your decisions, and your daily habits.You’ll learn how to assess your leadership through four domains:1. Orienting Virtues: The “Why” Hope, Wisdom, Prudence, Humanity, and Transcendence help you examine purpose, motivation, and direction.2. Discerning Virtues: The “What” Justice, Truthfulness, Humility, Faithfulness, and Phronesis help you evaluate how you choose what is right and fair.3. Action Virtues: The “How” Temperance, Patience, Forgiveness, Grace, Love, Courage, and Gratitude reveal how you embody integrity through behavior.4. Aspirational Virtues: The “How Far” Magnanimity, Lifelong Learning, and Excellence help you measure your capacity for growth, vision, and greatness.This episode guides you through structured questions in each domain, helping you identify: • where you are thriving, • where your leadership is drifting, • what virtues need strengthening, and • how to realign your identity, actions, and purpose.Whether you are a leader of self, family, or organization, the Virtue Audit is a transformative process that brings clarity, conviction, and renewed motivation to your leadership journey.This is your invitation to pause, reflect, and courageously look inward so you can lead forward with greater integrity, purpose, and excellence.