ENNEAGRAM COACHING & FACILITATION

A POWERFUL TOOL FOR PERSONAL GROWTH AND TEAM COHESION

The Enneagram offers a dynamic framework for understanding yourself and others. I incorporate it into both individual and team coaching to deepen insight, foster empathy and connection, and guide both individual and team development.

ENNEAGRAM ASSESSMENT

A Tool for Self-Discovery

Enneagram personality type mapping is an incredible tool for self-discovery and growth, as well as a foundation for improving communication.

Using a combination of assessments and in-person discussion, I can help you discover your ennea-type as well as potential areas for growth and exploration. This can be done in a couple of sessions or part of a longer coaching relationship.

Expert Guidance

As one of the few coaches dually certified through both Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy and iEQ9—two globally renowned Enneagram schools—I bring depth and nuance to the typing process. Having completed over 300 individual Enneagram debrief conversations, I can help ensure accurate typing and meaningful application of insights.

A Professional Assessment and In-Depth Debrief

I start with an Assessment and report from either Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy and iEQ9, depending on your context. Both offer gold standard assessments and reports, so we will pick the one that best suits your situation and the work you want to do.

We then debrief the findings together to confirm your Enneagram Type or identify a mistyping, offer other types or subtypes if you are not typed correctly, unpack any confusing language, and address questions, and discuss how the findings might support your growth. The Beginning of a Journey From there, the path opens to a variety of options, including individual coaching, couples coaching, reconciling and developing stronger rapport with a colleague, team Enneagram, or self-study and growth.

The Beginning of a Journey

From there, the path opens to a variety of options, including individual coaching, couples coaching, reconciling and developing stronger rapport with a colleague, team Enneagram, or self-study and growth.

ENNEAGRAM FOR TEAMS

Understanding Self and Colleagues

The Enneagram provides a powerful map for teams to understand individual and collective strengths, challenge areas, and communication preferences.

By illuminating the different ways team members perceive the world and interact with others, the Enneagram builds stronger self-awareness, increases empathy, reduces unnecessary conflict and helps reconcile the tension/conflict that is there, and helps teams leverage their diverse perspectives and talents. The result is happier, more cohesive, and higher-performing teams.

Individual Assessments and Facilitated Team Conversations

The team Enneagram process begins with individual assessments and one-on-one typing conversations to ensure accurate identification.

We then bring the team together for an interactive workshop where members learn about all nine types, with particular focus on the specific composition of your team. Through structured activities and facilitated dialogue, team members gain insights into each other's core motivations, communication styles, and stress responses.

This work creates a shared language for discussing differences, develops greater curiosity about colleagues' behaviors and approaches, and builds appreciation for each person's unique contributions.

TEAMS CAN EXPECT SOME OF THE FOLLOWING OUTCOMES

Increased self-awareness of strengths, challenge areas, and blind spots

Deeper appreciation for each team member's innate gifts and contributions

Enhanced understanding of reactive tendencies and new ways to respond

A shared language to address challenges and navigate conflict

Greater tolerance and empathy for colleagues' behaviors and styles

Individual and team practices to leverage strengths and develop growth areas

ENNEAGRAM FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES

The Enneagram offers profound insights for individual growth and relationship development.

Individual Coaching at Depth

As a certified Enneagram coach with both Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy and iEQ9, I work with individuals to explore the full depth of this tool—beyond just type to include subtypes, instinctual drives, passions, fixations, and paths for development.

A Deeper Understanding of Partnership

For couples, the Enneagram provides a compassionate framework for understanding each other's core needs, communication preferences, and growth edges. We begin with the specialized iEQ9 for Couples assessment, which reveals not just individual types but the specific dynamics created by your type combination. Through individual and joint sessions, couples learn to navigate differences with greater understanding, transform recurring conflicts, and support each other's growth journey.

A Roadmap for Continued Growth

Whether working with individuals or couples, the Enneagram offers a road map for increasing self-awareness, developing compassion for yourself and others, and creating more conscious, fulfilling relationships. Our work together combines assessment insights with practical applications to daily life, helping you transform understanding into meaningful change.

FAQS

The Enneagram is a dynamic personality system that goes far beyond categorizing behavior—it illuminates the unconscious motivations, core fears, and driving desires that shape how we see and interact with the world.

Unlike other personality tools that focus on what you do, the Enneagram reveals why you do what you do, making it a profound map for personal development and transformation. Understanding how other people’s behaviors are driven by their unconscious motivation and core fear increases empathy and connection.

Additionally, the Enneagram is a dynamic model. While many personality systems describe static traits, the Enneagram shows how we can access healthier expressions of our type and integrate qualities from other types. It also recognizes that we all have access to nine different ways of being in the world, though we typically over-rely on one primary pattern. This makes the Enneagram not just a tool for understanding yourself, but a pathway for expanding your repertoire of responses to life's challenges.

I use the Enneagram as both a mirror and a roadmap in my coaching work.

As a mirror, it helps clients see their unconscious patterns with compassion and clarity—recognizing both their gifts and their blind spots.

As a roadmap, it provides specific direction for growth, showing clients how to access healthier expressions of their type and integrate qualities they may have been avoiding.

The Enneagram helps clients understand the unconscious patterns keeping them stuck. Whether someone is struggling with perfectionism, avoiding difficult conversations, or feeling overwhelmed by competing demands, the Enneagram provides insight into the underlying drivers and offers concrete practices for developing new responses.

The Enneagram is incredibly powerful for building emotional intelligence and improving communication. Leaders learn to recognize their default stress responses, understand what motivates their team members, and adapt their leadership style to bring out the best in others.

I often use it to help leaders navigate conflict more skillfully, delegate more effectively, and create environments where diverse personality types can thrive.

The iEQ9 and Chestnut Paes Enneagram assessments are two of the leading Enneagram Assessment tools globally. Both use assessments with dynamic algorithms to help identify your likely core type. Both claim to have a predictive accuracy of > 85% (many free and less renowned assessments are likely closer to 50%, if that). And both have in-depth, powerful reports.

They are both fantastic – which is why I am certified to use each of them.

There are some differences to the backend, the report content, and to additional services that I consider when suggesting we use one assessment versus the other. For clients who are curious, I will send sample reports of both so the client can select thire preference.

Absolutely. The Enneagram is particularly effective for addressing common workplace dynamics such as communication breakdowns, conflict, delegation challenges, giving and receiving feedback, and other relevant themes. I have seen it work well in conflict mediation between colleagues, as it provides a non-judgmental way to examine differences and release rigidly held stories.

The power of the Enneagram is that it offers a framework to understand how we see and experience the world through very different lenses, and gives participants a foundation from which to explore these differences with curiosity and empathy. It also gives teams a shared language to unpack situations in a neutral, non-defensive way.

When facilitating team Enneagram work, I ensure there is ample time for self-reflection, small group sharing, and large group processing to ensure that participants use this tool to reflect and share on their own personal experiences, thereby increasing understanding and connection.

No. The Enneagram’s focus on underlying motivations rather than observable behaviors makes it inherently difficult to validate using traditional personality research methods. Critics have said it’s not statistically proven and only has mixed evidence of reliability and validity.

However, this does not mean it is not useful for personal and team development

Accuracy of Typing The iEQ9 has provided over 450,000 Enneagram assessments to date and claims to have a 95% accuracy in typing. They have conducted 13 years of continuous research from experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and computer science and validated their questionnaires based on over 100,000 participants to ensure accuracy and relevance. Similarly, Chestnut Paes is led by two of the top Enneagram luminaries in the world – Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes, both of whom have studied the Enneagram for decades and used it with thousands of individuals around the world. Their assessment claims to be 85% accurate for the core type and 95%+ among the top two types (from which the participant can choose). Having trained and certified with both schools, I help clients confirm their Enneagram type and, where needed, offer other Enneagram types until the client feels resonant. So, I am confident you will find the type that fits and the learnings that come from it.

History of Impact Secondly, the Enneagram as a tool has been around for 50+ years aby mental health professionals, religious communities, large business corporations, and leadership coaches in an effort to improve understanding of the self and others.

My Own Observation of Usefulness for Individuals and Teams

From my own personal experience working with hundreds of individuals and dozens of teams around the world, I can attest to clients’ enhanced self-awareness on reactivity, blindspots, fixated ways of thinking and ability to use this information to open to more possibility.

I have also seen how teams can use this content to shift how they communicate, navigate conflict, offer feedback, and support each other.

Conclusion on Value & Validity

Ultimately, if people consistently report gaining valuable self-insight and experiencing personal growth through the Enneagram, those pragmatic outcomes may matter more than academic validation (subject to personal opinion, of course), especially since the framework has survived and thrived for decades precisely because practitioners find it genuinely useful for personal development and therapeutic work. For me, it has been an invaluable tool for my own development and my ability to support my clients.

Ultimately, when using the Enneagram with clients, I adhere to Bruce Lee’s famous quote, “Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”

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