The Enneagram and Nicholas Pesch, Executive Coach

You Think You Already Know Yourself? Think Again. Why the Enneagram Breaks Through Where Other Tools Stop.

Most leaders - and teams - believe they already know themselves.
They’ve done DISC, Insights Discovery, MBTI, Lumina Spark, Hogan.
They know their colors, traits, and personality codes.

Yet under pressure, the same patterns return: control, overdrive, avoidance, withdrawal.
Different context. Same story.

Because most tools describe how you behave.

The Enneagram reveals why.

It reaches deeper - into your core motivation, worldview, and core fear.
It exposes the unconscious strategy your ego built to stay safe, loved, or in control - the very pattern that once protected you but now limits your freedom.
It maps the architecture of identity - how mind, emotion, and body sustain your sense of self.
When that mechanism becomes conscious, the pattern loosens - and genuine choice appears.

 

Why the Enneagram Goes Deeper

 It unites mind, heart, and body.
Each type reveals a specific mental fixation, emotional passion, and somatic tension. Seeing all three transforms insight into embodiment.

It’s dynamic, not static.
It shows how you shift under stress and safety - real movement, not fixed labels.

It’s vertical, not horizontal.
Tools like Hogan measure fit; the Enneagram maps growth - from ego-driven reactivity to self-authored presence to self-liberating awareness.

It includes the spiritual dimension.
When working deeper with the Enneagram, you realize that each fixation hides a lost quality of Being - serenity, authenticity, innocence. What you resist most is the doorway back to essence.

When we introduce the Enneagram to executive teams who think they’ve seen every tool, the same moment always comes: stillness, humility, recognition.
People finally see themselves - not their role, not their story, but the structure beneath it.
That’s where transformation begins.
 

Why We Work With It

 In personal development, it cuts through self-narratives to the core pattern that keeps you reactive.
In leadership development, it enables vertical growth - from role-driven performance to self-aware presence.
In team development, it maps the emotional ecosystem - revealing hidden loyalties, tensions, and blind spots that shape collective intelligence.

That’s why we work with the Enneagram.
Because leaders don’t need another color - they need consciousness.

The Enneagram doesn’t make you better.
It makes you real.
And from that reality, true leadership begins.

📸 Photo from last week’s workshop on the Baltic coast - where the Enneagram once again proved to be a true “opener of truth,” helping leaders see themselves, each other, and their interaction patterns more clearly - and discover tangible ways to transform them.

 

How has the Enneagram impacted your own growth - personally, as a leader, or within your team? Share your experience below.

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