Enneagram Coaching for Teams & Leaders
The Enneagram is one of the most powerful tools for leadership and team development. We use it not as a personality label but as a practical map of motivation — helping leaders, managers and teams understand why they do what they do, and how to lead more consciously.
What is Enneagram coaching?
Enneagram coaching uses the nine Enneagram types to reveal the core motivations, strengths and blind spots that drive your behaviour. Unlike profiles that sort people by what they do, the Enneagram types you by what you are reaching for — or avoiding — underneath. That deeper view is what makes it so useful in coaching: once you can see the pattern running you, you can finally choose differently. We pair this insight with practical, somatic and depth-coaching practice, so awareness becomes real, lasting change rather than another interesting test result.
Who Enneagram coaching is for
The Enneagram meets you wherever you lead. It is especially valuable for:
- • Senior leaders and executives who want to lead with more presence and less reactivity.
- • Managers stepping into bigger roles and new levels of pressure.
- • Intact teams that want better communication and fewer unproductive conflicts.
- • Individuals committed to genuine self-awareness and personal growth.
- • HR and L&D leaders building more conscious, collaborative cultures.
How Enneagram coaching works
We move from insight to practice in a clear, supportive process:
- 1. Discover your type — start with the free six-minute Enneagram Leadership Assessment.
- 2. Confirm it in a typing conversation with your coach, where motive settles what behaviour cannot.
- 3. Map your strengths and blind spots, and what your team actually experiences working with you.
- 4. Practise targeted shifts between sessions — small, repeatable changes that rewire your defaults.
- 5. Review and integrate, so growth holds under real pressure.
Enneagram coaching for teams
When a whole team learns the Enneagram together, something shifts. Conflicts that felt personal become understandable — you see that a colleague is not being difficult, they are simply wired around a different core need. Communication improves because people learn to speak to each other’s motivations, not just their words. Trust grows, decisions get faster, and the team begins to use its full range of strengths instead of unconsciously competing.
What you’ll gain
- • Sharper self-awareness — you understand the why beneath your reactions.
- • Better communication and fewer unproductive conflicts.
- • Leaders who respond on purpose instead of reacting on autopilot.
- • Stronger, more trusting teams with a shared language for growth.
- • Sustainable change that holds long after the workshop ends.
Accredited, depth-based coaching
Your coaching is led by accredited, experienced practitioners. Founder Alicia S. Pieterse is an Executive Depth Coach and Narrative Enneagram Teacher, and our practice is aligned to ICF and COMENSA standards — so you are working with depth, rigour and ethics, not a weekend personality quiz.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need to know my Enneagram type before we start?
- No. The best place to begin is our free Enneagram Leadership Assessment, but a typing conversation with your coach will confirm it. Your type is settled by motive — what you are reaching for underneath your behaviour — not by behaviour alone.
- Is the Enneagram scientifically valid?
- The Enneagram is best understood as a development framework rather than a clinical instrument. Its value is practical: in coaching it consistently helps people recognise the patterns running them and change them. We use it alongside evidence-based coaching and somatic practice.
- Can the Enneagram be used for team building?
- Yes — it is one of the most effective team tools we use. A shared Enneagram session gives a team a common language for difference, which reduces friction and improves collaboration almost immediately.
- How is Enneagram coaching different from a personality test?
- A test gives you a label and stops there. Coaching uses your type as a starting point for change — translating insight into new habits, conversations and decisions over time.
- Do you offer Enneagram coaching online and across South Africa?
- Yes. We work with leaders and teams in person in Johannesburg and online throughout South Africa and beyond.
Discover your leadership type
Start with the free Enneagram Leadership Assessment, or book a conversation with a coach to explore Enneagram coaching for you or your team.