The wisdom your team
doesn't know it needs.
Your team is smart, talented, well-intentioned. And stuck. Not because of strategy—because they don't understand each other's wiring.
We work in the 27 Enneagram subtypes, not the nine types—because that is the level where a team's behavior under pressure becomes predictable.
Trusted by teams navigating deep transformation.
Why behavioral assessments
consistently fall short.
Traditional tools measure the shadow people cast, not the person standing in the light.
DiSC. Myers-Briggs. Hogan.
These tools feel good because they are measurable and comfortable. They describe what people do—their behaviors and visible preferences. It is safe, digestible data.
But most organizations stop at the description. They buy a tool to fix a deep cultural problem, but only ever describe the surface symptoms.
The charts are beautiful, the insights are accurate, and absolutely nothing changes.
A framework for
Insight and Action.
The Why — Insight
"Why does this dynamic feel so draining?"
Understand the core motivations that drive conflict and culture.
See exactly why certain feedback lands—or fails—depending on the person.
Identify the persistent patterns that sabotage team effectiveness.
The How — Motion
"How do we actually move forward?"
Develop concrete practices tailored to each team member's psychology.
Shift the system by changing the nature of individual interactions.
Translate psychological understanding into measurable team transformation.
"When you bridge the gap between understanding and doing, your team starts to move as one."
What Your Team
Will Get
An interactive Team Map. Emma builds it from a proprietary Enneagram assessment.
"This isn't nine separate profiles. It's the collective intelligence of your team, visible for the first time."
Who everyone actually is
Not how they perform. Not how they want to be seen. Their core motivations, their blind spots, their growth edge.
How everyone interacts
Where you naturally align. Where you predictably clash. Why certain pairings work and others don't. The composition of the whole team.
What's underneath the conflict
The real dynamics. The unconscious patterns. The things nobody's saying but everyone feels.
Meet Emma
Emma is the AI coaching intelligence at the heart of Big Self School. Built on twenty years of clinical and coaching expertise and Enneagram wisdom, she helps people see themselves clearly — not with a label, but with real insight into why you do what you do and what becomes possible when you see it.
She doesn't assess you and move on. She stays.
For three months after your workshop, every team member has direct access to Emma. Each team member can chat with her directly. Since Emma knows each person's personality structure and growth edge, she does what behavioral assessments can't:
Recommends exactly how to give feedback to each person — so it lands and creates growth, not defensiveness.
Helps each person understand their own patterns — and what they specifically need to work on.
Tracks how individual awareness shifts the whole system — because that's how teams actually change.
Emma is evolving — She's becoming something much deeper — a personal guide for anyone ready to do the real work of knowing who they are.
Three paths. All effective.
All three include 3 months of Emma support. Your team can chat with her directly. She provides specific guidance on how to work with each person and helps you see how the whole system is shifting.
2-Hour Taster
For teams new to the Enneagram who want to understand if this depth of work is right for them.
An introduction to the Enneagram for your team. You'll see the dynamics, understand the framework, and get your Team Map.
Half-Day Deep Dive
For teams ready to identify specific friction points and develop concrete practices to shift them.
You'll identify specific dynamics to address and get concrete practices to sustain the shifts. Real practice, not just theory.
Full-Day Immersion
For leadership teams planning retreats or offsites who want to deepen connection and build psychological foundation together.
Go deep on team composition, work through real dynamics in real time, and leave with clarity and a concrete path forward.
Every workshop is tailored to your team's specific context. Not sure which one is right? Let's have a conversation.
Book a ConsultationHow systems
actually change.
The Enneagram is grounded in depth psychology. When you're accurately typed, you discover your specific growth edge. Your wings. Your arrows. The exact moves that accelerate your awareness and make you a healthier version of yourself.
Layer in instinctual variants, and it's even richer. You get laser precision on what YOU need to do differently.
When one person on your team increases awareness of their pattern, they start choosing differently. They communicate differently. They lead differently. The whole system responds. Because teams are systems, not collections of individuals.
No other tool does this.
This is not a hiring tool.
Not for talent selection. Not for determining who belongs on your team.
This is a development tool. For understanding what's really happening, why people are wired the way they are, and exactly how they need to grow.
"I was looking for community — people who get it when you say you're working on yourself. You delivered that and so much more. Learning my Enneagram type helped me understand why I do what I do and gave me practical tools to show up differently. I use conscious leadership tools constantly — at work, at home, everywhere. It's changed how I lead and how I live. If you're on the fence, just do it. You'll leave with clarity, community, and actual practices that work."
Ready to begin?
Book a discovery call to explore where you are and whether this depth of work–clinically rooted and soul led–is right for you.
Common Questions
Teams who want to build real awareness and cohesion. Leaders ready to understand how their patterns affect their people. Anyone willing to look at themselves honestly and do the work of growth.
Other tests categorize you. The Enneagram shows you how to grow beyond your patterns. It reveals your core fears, desires, and unconscious motivations—then gives you a roadmap for transformation.
No. Tests can be conditional based on when and why you took them. It's better to read about all nine types and see which one fits. If you're stuck, we can do a typing session together.
No. You're dominant in one type, though you have access to all nine. Your results are showing possibilities. Read about your top three to see which fits best.
No, but it's useful. The Enneagram is a map of human psychology and behavior patterns. Most skeptics become believers once they see how accurately it describes their actual patterns. It's a tool, not dogma.
Absolutely not. The Enneagram is psychospiritual—it asks you to do both psychological and spiritual work. But spirituality isn't tied to any religion. Just be open to the mysteries of life and the soul inside you.
Emma is the Enneagram companion Big Self School built on the Enneagram's 27 subtypes. In a team engagement she runs each person's adaptive assessment and voice interview, writes their Individual Report, and builds the team map that shows how this specific group is wired. Then she keeps working with the team after the workshop, daily, where the work actually happens.
Each of the nine types comes in three versions, depending on which survival instinct dominates: self-preservation, social, or one-to-one (sexual). That gives 27 subtypes, and they matter because two people with the same type can look nothing alike. A Social Eight protects people; a Sexual Eight takes the room. Nine of the 27 are countertypes, which run against their type's usual grain and are the ones most often mistyped. We work at the subtype level because that is where team behavior actually becomes predictable.
Please don't, and we won't help you. The Enneagram is a map of motivation, not a verdict on capability, and any type can do any job. We use it as a development tool, never an evaluation tool: nobody's individual results are shown to their manager, and no team report names or quotes an individual.
It depends on team size, format, and depth of work. Contact me for a custom proposal based on your team's needs.
That's normal. The work speaks for itself once people experience it. Skeptics often become the biggest believers when they see how accurately it describes their patterns.
We create an integration plan based on your team's needs. This might include follow-up sessions, individual coaching, or ongoing team check-ins to embed the learning.