Enneagram Workshops for San Diego Executives
Know Your Patterns.
Lead Your Team.
A nine-type framework that reveals the operating system behind your best leadership. Most tools describe what you do. The Enneagram clarifies how you do it best, and where you have more available than you’ve used. We bring it to San Diego leadership teams as the common language for executive teams, the diagnostic lens for individual leaders, and the framework that makes good leaders measurably better.
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Day Workshop
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WHY TANDEMLY
Most Teams Use the Enneagram like a Horoscope. We Use it like an Instrument.
Done right, the Enneagram is the most useful diagnostic tool we’ve found in fifteen years of organizational work. Done wrong, it’s a personality test with extra steps. Three things separate the two.
Diagnostic, Not Decorative
The Enneagram becomes useful the moment it stops describing types and starts revealing motivations. We don't run workshops where people swap which type their friends are. We use it to surface the patterns running your decisions, your conflict, and your team's stuck loops.
Common Language for Hard Conversations
Once your leadership team shares Enneagram fluency, the conversations they've been avoiding get measurably easier. Friction that was personality becomes pattern, and pattern is something a team can actually work with. The argument gets shorter. Curiosity replaces blame.
In Service of the Work, Not as the Work
The Enneagram is one instrument in a larger practice. We integrate it with executive coaching, leadership retreats, offsites, and manager development programs. Insight without application fades by Monday. Application gives the framework somewhere to live.
When teams call us
The Moment a Personality Framework Becomes a Leadership Tool
If any of these read like the moment your San Diego team is in, the discovery call is short and the diagnosis is usually quick.
01
The Same Conflict Keeps Recurring
Different topic every quarter, same fight underneath. The pattern is type-coded, not topic-coded, and the team is rebuilding the argument from scratch every time without knowing why.
02
Communication Breaks Down at the Top
Your leadership team is fluent in business and illiterate in each other. The friction reads as personality. It's actually pattern, and the Enneagram makes that distinction concrete enough to act on.
03
A New Senior Leader is Landing
The team's working dynamics need to absorb the new exec, not just the org chart. An Enneagram session in the first ninety days is how San Diego leadership teams onboard each other, properly, before bad patterns calcify.
04
You Want Depth without Exposure
Your team needs to understand each other better. They are not going to do trust falls. The Enneagram gives executives a framework they can engage with intellectually first, emotionally second.
05
An Individual Leader is Stuck
A high performer keeps hitting the same ceiling. The Enneagram surfaces the type-driven pattern that's running them in the rooms where they cost themselves the most, and gives them something specific to work with.
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You Want a Tool that Pairs with the Rest
You already run offsites, executive coaching, or manager training. The Enneagram is the connective layer that makes all of them more durable, and turns the language across them into one shared vocabulary.
The San Diego economy
The Industries that Drive San Diego and Where We Fit In
San Diego runs on a distinct mix of innovation, defense, and visitor-economy businesses.
We know how leadership challenges show up differently in each one.
Local Market, Not a Generic Playbook
From the biotech mesa of Torrey Pines to the naval waterfront downtown, San Diego’s leadership teams face pressures shaped by their industry. A scaling life-sciences founder, a defense program lead, and a hospitality operator are solving very different people problems.
We tailor every engagement to that context, so the work lands faster and the assumptions we have to unwind are fewer.
Biotech & Life Sciences
Torrey Pines · Sorrento Valley · UTC
Scaling crises, founder succession, and post-acquisition culture integration, met with executive coaching and retreats that hold confidentiality as structural.
Defense & Maritime
Naval bases · Defense contractors
Developing leaders inside structured, high-stakes environments through manager training and people-management systems that translate technical authority into team leadership.
Higher Education & Research
UC San Diego · SDSU · USD · Scripps
Navigating academic governance, politics, and ego with facilitated retreats and coaching for foundation, medical-education, and research leadership.
Tech & Software
Downtown · Carlsbad · Sorrento Valley
Turning fast-promoted doers into managers before the org outgrows them, with manager training and workshops built for high-growth scaling.
Healthcare & Health Systems
Provider systems · Health tech
Steadying constant leadership transitions and cultural integration with executive coaching and offsites that reset the working agreement.
Tourism & Hospitality
Coronado · Mission Bay · Gaslamp
Building frontline and mid-level leaders who can hold standards through seasonal swings and high turnover, with people management and training.
The Nine Executive Lenses
Every Type Leads. Each One Leads Differently.
A glance at how the framework reads in a leadership context. These descriptions aren’t flattering or unflattering. They’re accurate, and accuracy is the point.
TYPE 01
The Reformer
Holds the team to the standard. At their edge: rigid, self-critical, unable to delegate without rewriting.
TYPE 02
The Helper
The connective tissue of the org. At their edge: avoids hard feedback, conflates being needed with leading.
TYPE 03
The Achiever
The reason the quarter closed. At their edge: image-driven, conflict-avoidant in service of optics.
TYPE 04
The Individualist
Sees what the org is missing. At their edge: moody, self-referencing, mistakes feeling for strategy.
TYPE 05
The Investigator
The strategist nobody beats on logic. At their edge: hoards information, withholds, retreats from the room.
TYPE 06
The Loyalist
The risk-spotter every CEO needs. At their edge: catastrophizes, paralyzed by what could go wrong.
TYPE 07
The Enthusiast
Generates the next opportunity, the next pivot. At their edge: scattered, allergic to hard finishes.
TYPE 08
The Challenger
The founder energy that built the company. At their edge: dominating, overrides quieter signal in the room.
TYPE 09
The Peacemaker
The diplomat who keeps the org whole. At their edge: avoids the call, conflates harmony with progress.
How It Works
Four Steps from Intake to Integration
DIAGNOSE
Discovery Call
A one-hour conversation where we listen for what the team is actually trying to solve. The Enneagram is rarely the goal. It's the instrument we reach for to get to one.
Profile
Validated Assessment
A research-backed instrument identifies each participant's dominant type, wing, and instinctual subtype. Sixty minutes, completed before we meet. Reports in your inbox before the workshop.
FACILITATE
In the Room with You
A live workshop where the report becomes recognizable. Senior facilitators bring you through it. The moment of that's exactly what I do is the unlock. Fluency builds over the course of the day, on site anywhere across San Diego.
Integrate
Ongoing Application Coaching
Insight without application fades. We stay close for as long as the work requires, often pairing the workshop with executive coaching for one or two leaders who recognized themselves most clearly.
Tell Us Where the Friction is. We'll Show You the Pattern Under it.
A one-hour discovery call is usually enough to know whether the Enneagram is the right diagnostic tool for your San Diego team, and how it would integrate with your existing leadership work.