The personal and professional qualities of someone who might be labled as having reached excellence of stature in a particular field of endeavor could include these overlapping traits:
Personal qualities
- honesty
- strong personal ethics
- high work ethics
- tenacity
- drive
- desire
- passion
- maintains good personal boundaries
- maintains balance between work and play
Professional qualities
- strong professional ethics
- high work ethics
- personable
- terrific communication skills, written and verbal
- sets and meets goals
- teamwork skills
- networking skills
- good educator in the particular field (e.g. able to communicate/educate effectively)
- strong desire to "know more", to "seek more"
- innovative
- elicits positive regard from others
- maintains good professional boundaries
- willing to do more than the standard "9 to 5" work day
- "overtime" is "playtime", is enjoyable
- gives up personal time to achieve