Leadership Begins With Knowing Who You Are
Leadership Begins With Knowing Who You Are
We talk a lot about what leaders do. But one of the most powerful shifts comes when we slow down and ask: Why do I lead the way I do?
The iEQ9 Enneagram Assessment isn’t just another personality tool. It is a precise, rich lens into what drives you — your internal motivations, habitual patterns, blind spots, and growth edges.
Why It’s Worth the Time
We bring the iEQ9 into engagements when the work is going beyond skills and behaviors and into the realm of identity, meaning, and internal capacity.
Here’s what it offers:
A map of your core motivations and fears — the forces beneath how you show up.
Clarity about how you process thinking, feeling, and acting (centers of expression) and how that influences your leadership style.
Depth on not just your Enneagram Type but also your instincts, subtypes, wings, and stress/strain levels — offering nuance that many assessments skip.
Practical leverage: It doesn’t stop at insight. It provides a framework for growth — how you might shift from habitual reactive patterns to more integrated, creative leadership.
What It Measures
The iEQ9 is designed to deliver depth and rigor. Here are its key dimensions:
Core Enneagram Type (your primary style of thinking/feeling/acting)
27 Subtypes & Instinctual Variants — it goes beyond the nine types by revealing how your dominant instinct tailors your expression.
Centers of Expression — Are you leading more from head, heart, or body? How you engage the world matters.
Stress/Strain Dimensions — How does pressure show up for you? Where are your edges?
Growth Pathways — The report doesn’t just describe. It points toward what next steps might look like.
How We Use It Together
When we bring the iEQ9 into a coaching or development program, we structure the work so the assessment becomes a lever, not a label.
Context‑setting — We clarify what matters for your leadership right now: your role, your system, your aspirations.
Assessment — You complete the iEQ9 questionnaire (~30 minutes) in a moment of quiet presence.
Debrief & Explore — We walk through your results in conversation: what lands, what surprises, what you resist.
Integration & Application — The insights feed into coaching, development plans, team dynamics, and tangible leadership practices.
Follow‑through — The work isn’t “done” after the assessment. We return to learnings, iterate, and deepen your capacity over time.
When It Makes Sense
You might consider the iEQ9 if you’re:
Ready to go under the surface of your leadership and explore its inner architecture
Facing a transition — a new role, larger scale, or new kind of impact — and want to bring more “you” into that work
Working with a leadership team and want a shared language for growth, presence, and collaboration
Seeking to move beyond “just being competent” and into being intentionally generative, more grounded, more authentic
Your leadership begins where self-awareness deepens — and the iEQ9 offers a clear, compassionate path to get there.
