The Enneagram
The Nine Types of Leader
The Enneagram is a personality system and powerful map for personal growth, leadership development, and team dynamics. Grounded in wisdom and modern psychology, it describes nine distinct types, each with a core motivation, strengths and challenges, that drives how we think, feel, and act.
Where many models focus on what we do, the Enneagram reveals the motivation behind why we do it.
Each type has a distinct lens on the world, shaped by internal drivers that influence our relationships, leadership style, communication patterns, and habits. These patterns often run on autopilot, until we learn to see them.
When leaders and teams use the Enneagram, they gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others. This awareness fuels more intentional choices, stronger collaboration, and more impactful leadership.
Self-awareness isn’t optional for leaders, it’s essential. The Enneagram is a powerful tool for understanding your strengths, blind spots, and the impact you have on others.
Enneagram Workshops for Teams
The Enneagram is a powerful tool that can help teams increase self-awareness and drive collective growth and performance. When individual team members understand their predominant Enneagram type, along with its associated strengths, challenges, and blind spots, they are better able to understand their behavior and its impact on the overall dynamics and success of the team.
When individual team members gain insights into the Enneagram types, and the associated motivations, strengths and challenges of their team members, something powerful happens. Teams develop greater awareness, understanding, empathy, connection, and trust, and they are better able to work together to achieve common goals.
In half-day or full-day Enneagram workshops, leaders and teams discover deep insights into their collective strengths and challenges, and identify development and growth strategies that strengthen team effectiveness.
Find out more about our Enneagram workshops here.
Enneagram Guides
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Enneagram Guide to Giving Feedback
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Coming Soon: Enneagram Guide to Managing Conflict
The Enneagram with Emma
In this video series, Emma explores the Enneagram as a powerful tool for leadership and team development. Each episode offers practical insights and strategies to help you deepen self-awareness, move beyond limiting patterns, and lead with greater clarity, intention, and impact.
In the first episode of this video series, Emma shares a high-level overview of the Enneagram as a tool for personal and professional growth. She walks through the 9 types, their core motivations, and why understanding them in ourselves and others can help us shift from judgment to curiosity, and from reactive leadership to conscious leadership.
Whether you're curious about self-awareness, conscious leadership, or building stronger teams, check it out and subscribe to follow along.
Welcome back to The Enneagram with Emma! In this episode, we’re taking a deeper dive into the Enneagram Type One Leader often called The Reformer or The Strict Perfectionist.
Type One leaders are principled, purposeful, and driven to do the right thing. They lead with integrity and hold themselves, and others, to high standards. But when this drive for improvement goes into overdrive, it can lead to rigidity, frustration, and burnout. In this video, Emma walks us through some of the core strengths leading from this type, as well as the potential watch-outs when strengths are overused.
Explore your Enneagram type or bring the insights of the Enneagram to your team.
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