Beyond Personality.
Strategic Leadership Intelligence.
The Enneagram isn't a personality test. It's a framework for understanding the unconscious patterns that drive your decision-making, communication, and response to pressure.
Self-Awareness Isn't Self-Improvement.
It's Competitive Advantage.
For executives and leaders, understanding the unconscious patterns that drive your behavior isn't a personal development exercise — it's a performance strategy. The Enneagram maps nine core motivations, each with distinct strengths, stress responses, and communication styles.
When you understand your default stress responses, blind spots, and leadership tendencies, you can make clearer decisions, communicate more effectively, and lead from intention rather than habit.
"The Enneagram reveals the 'why' beneath your behavior — so you can lead with intention, not habit."
It's not about labeling. It's about leveraging self-awareness to lead more effectively.
- Make clearer decisions under pressure
- Communicate more effectively across different leadership styles
- Build stronger, more aligned teams
- Recognize when you're operating from reactivity vs. strategy
- Lead with presence instead of performing leadership
- Make decisions under pressure
- Trigger reactivity or defensiveness
- Communicate — and where miscommunication happens
- Show up when stakes are high
- Prioritize — and what you consistently miss
Nine Core Motivations.
One Framework for Understanding Them All.
The Enneagram maps nine distinct leadership personalities — each with unique strengths, stress responses, and blind spots. Understanding these patterns creates shared language for navigating conflict, building trust, and aligning on strategy.
Understanding your type — and your team's types — creates shared language for navigating conflict, building trust, and aligning on strategy.
Clinical-Grade Leadership
Assessment.
At EnlightUs Coaching, we use the iEQ9 Enneagram assessment — the most research-backed, business-focused Enneagram tool available. Unlike free online tests, the iEQ9 has a 95% accuracy rate based on 13+ years of research and validation.
This isn't about self-discovery for its own sake. It's about building the self-awareness required to lead with clarity and sustainable performance.
What You'll Learn:- Your Core Motivation & Worldview — The unconscious drivers shaping your leadership decisions.
- Stress & Security Patterns — How you respond under pressure and what shifts when stakes are high.
- Communication Style — How your communication lands with others and where friction occurs.
- Blind Spots & Development Areas — Where you're most likely to derail — and how to address it.
- Team Dynamics — How your team's types interact, where conflict emerges, and how to leverage differences strategically.
Improve Decision-Making Under Pressure
Understand when you're deciding from clarity vs. stress response — and how to reliably access your best thinking.
Strengthen Executive Presence
Lead from authenticity, not the performance of leadership. Show up as yourself, with authority.
Navigate Conflict More Effectively
Recognize patterns in how you — and others — engage with disagreement. Change the dynamic before it escalates.
Build High-Performing Teams
Use Enneagram insight to align team communication, reduce friction, and leverage personality differences as strengths.
Prevent Burnout
Identify the patterns driving overwork, perfectionism, or people-pleasing — before they break you.
Three Steps to
Strategic Self-Awareness.
Take the online assessment at your convenience. Results generate a comprehensive 27+ page leadership report covering your core motivation, stress patterns, communication style, and blind spots.
We'll review your results in depth, explore patterns in your leadership, and connect insights to real challenges you're navigating — turning data into strategic action.
Apply Enneagram insights to your coaching work, team dynamics, and leadership development. Self-awareness becomes a tool, not just a concept.
The iEQ9 Team Report
Maps your team's collective dynamics — revealing communication patterns across different types, where trust breaks down under pressure, hidden conflicts driven by differing motivations, and how to leverage personality differences as strengths.
Best for:- Newly formed leadership teams building cohesion
- Executive teams navigating misalignment or conflict
- High-growth companies scaling leadership capacity
- Teams experiencing communication breakdowns
Half-day or full-day workshop integrating assessment, team mapping, and strategic application for 6-12 participants.
$4,500+ includes assessments for 6-12 participants + facilitated workshopThree Ways to
Work With the Enneagram.
Stand-Alone iEQ9
Complete the iEQ9 and schedule a 90-minute debrief session to explore your results and develop an integration plan.
- 27+ page individual leadership report
- 90-minute professional debrief session
- Integration and application plan
- Insight into your type's leadership patterns
Integrated with Coaching
Enneagram assessment and integration are included in all 3-month and 6-month executive coaching programs at no additional cost.
- Full iEQ9 assessment included
- Ongoing Enneagram integration throughout coaching
- Applied to real leadership challenges in real time
- Deepened over the course of the engagement
Team Enneagram Intensive
Comprehensive team dynamics mapping with facilitated half-day or full-day workshop for 6-12 participants.
- Individual iEQ9 assessments for all participants
- 81-page team dynamics report
- Facilitated half-day or full-day workshop
- Strategic application to team challenges
"Integrating the Enneagram into our hiring process has been a game-changer — not just for identifying the right candidates, but for setting them and our teams up for success from day one. With Tanya Colucci as our coach and guide, we've been able to move beyond personality labels and use the Enneagram as a strategic tool to hire with clarity, empathy, and long-term vision. What makes Tanya stand out is how she translates each Enneagram type into practical, behavior-based insights that we can use during interviews. We're not just asking 'Can they do the job?' — we're asking 'How will they lead? How will they respond to stress? Can they grow in this role while supporting the team culture we've built?' It's helped us avoid costly mismatches and, more importantly, build teams that trust each other, challenge each other, and stay aligned with our core values. Tanya's coaching has made the Enneagram an essential part of how we hire — and how we lead."
Answers Before You Ask.
Perspective Becomes Power When You Use It Strategically.
Schedule your individual Enneagram assessment and debrief, or explore how the iEQ9 integrates into executive coaching.
"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." — Marcus Aurelius