“Beatrice Chestnut is extraordinarily knowledgeable about the Enneagram and was very insightful in her ability to connect it to personal experience…[one] leader in our group described her as “the real deal.” This was an exceptional experience for our team, made better by Beatrice’s personable style.”
— Tod Tappert
Vice President for Culture and Learning and Chief Learning Officer, Greenville Health System
Business and Leadership Development
Organizations rely on people to make things happen. An abundance of research now shows that an individual’s emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key to leadership and workplace success. In working with people in business settings, we help develop individuals, teams, and organizations so that they can achieve their maximum level of growth, engagement, and effectiveness. Creating a learning culture and building in ways for people to grow and expand within the organization leads to healthier people, more cohesive teams, and a positive atmosphere, which all make for a more rewarding work experience and a more successful enterprise.
We offer a variety of trainings and interventions designed to support people at all levels of the organization to increase their EQ, so they can more readily find creative ways to maximize their strengths and meet interpersonal challenges. We specialize in using the Enneagram system of personality types to enhance the self-awareness and emotional intelligence of leaders, teams, and employees through coaching, team coaching, and leadership development.
Leadership Development
We offer one-on-one coaching, team support, and Enneagram-based development programs. The coaching process helps individuals recognize and remove barriers that block one’s ability to be an effective leader – and helps leaders enhance their ability to lead others from a place of integrity, honesty, and a deep ground of self-knowledge. We can also customize a program to suit your organization’s needs.
Team Development
We offer half-day and one-day training on a variety of topics that can help deepen the Enneagram knowledge of individuals and teams and show teams how to use Enneagram insights to enhance team dynamics. Training in self-awareness and emotional intelligence followed by real-time coaching support for teams allows them to enhance their ability to work through conflicts, manage work more effectively, and increase job satisfaction.
Employee Development
We offer coaching and training designed to help individual contributors leverage their strengths, meet specific challenges, and overcome obstacles to achieve greater success and satisfaction. Depending on the needs of the individual, team, or organization, we can work with employees to help them take action to reach their goals and manifest their highest potential.
Increase your leadership effectiveness.
Are you an effective influencer in the workplace?
What leader wouldn’t want to be more influential and persuasive? However, this skill isn’t a one-size-fits-all attribute. There are a range of influence styles and techniques you can integrate into communication with teams and clients to effectively persuade.
Do you model executive presence?
Executive presence is the intangible, yet essential, quality to confidently lead and effectively communicate. Research shows highly confident executives are 2.5 times more likely to be hired or promoted. But it can be tricky to know how to help an otherwise competent leader develop this important attribute.
Are you coaching and inspiring those around you?
The best leaders know that strong coaching skills are central to their ability to grow their team. But what is the best way to coach them? What do you need to pay attention to when playing the role of coach with people who have a different Enneagram Type than yours?
Dial up your team’s emotional intelligence.
Is there a sense of mutual trust across the team?
Building trust is the foundation for any team to be effective. However, based on Enneagram Type, executives pay attention to different behaviors when determining who to trust. How will you know what really matters to enhance trust with another leader of a different Type?
How does the team handle conflict?
Productive conflict can help a company innovate and evolve. Unproductive conflict can stagnate projects and create an unnecessary emotional toll. Do you understand how to deal with conflict constructively when it arises? Knowing the secrets to shift unproductive conflict with those who are a different Type can make all the difference.
Does your team optimize their time together?
Most people spend more of their working hours in meetings than working independently. Sadly, all too often, meeting time is wasted and unproductive. By consciously expressing strengths and being mindful of derailing behaviors, executives can turn meeting collaboration from a frustrating experience into a gratifying one.
Maximize your employee’s impact.
Are they aware of their blind spots?
We all have blind spots that curtail our ability to lead effectively. But how do we discover what we can’t see about ourselves? One of the most powerful functions of the Enneagram is its ability to expose the behaviors and tendencies that we are blind to.
What is their true capacity for resilience?
What’s the #1 trait leaders need during times of change and uncertainty? Resilience. Research shows that those leaders who operate with greater coherence/resilience are able to access the highest functioning parts of the brain—enabling them to think clearly under pressure and create more innovative solutions to problems.
Are their communication skills effective?
The extent to which people communicate clearly (or don’t) affects team performance and satisfaction, productivity, efficiency, turnover, and the overall health of the organization. By learning our default communication styles and becoming aware of that of others, we enhance our skills and effectiveness.
Let’s connect.
Whether you are already an Enneagram enthusiast or are looking for a way of taking your team’s emotional and social intelligence to the next level, let’s talk about it.
Meet The Chestnut Group Associates
Uranio Paes, MBA
Uranio is internationally recognized as a leading Enneagram facilitator, coach, and organization development consultant. He has worked in corporate settings for over two decades and now specializes in doing transformational work with groups and individuals based on the Enneagram. A former President of the International Enneagram Association, for many years Uranio taught the Enneagram Worldwide Narrative Tradition Professional Training (EPTP) Program in Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
Helen English, MA
Helen is an executive coach, change consultant, and certified Enneagram professional with 15+ years experience of applying the Enneagram to leverage team and individual transformation. She has successfully delivered national and global change initiatives using high-level development, consulting and coaching skills to great effect. She graduated from Cambridge and has a Masters Degree in Management Consulting.
Chris Schoolcraft, MA, PhD
Chris has been studying and working with the Enneagram for over 9 years. He has trained with many leading Enneagram trainers, including Suzanne Stabile, Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Beatrice Chestnut, and Uranio Paes. Chris has been involved with leading and counseling within spiritual, religious, and non-profit communities for more than 24 years. He now applies the Enneagram in working with leaders, teams, and organizations across non-profit and corporate sectors, including biotech, real estate, manufacturing, and large national non-profits.
Felicia J. Lee, PhD
Felicia specializes in executive coaching and team leadership development, integrating diversity in her work as a necessary competency to be effective in an increasingly global workforce. With more than 24 years of experience, Dr. Lee frequently draws on her management experience as a former Vice President and Dean at premier academic institutions. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California, holds master’s degrees from Stanford University and Colorado State University.
Jeanette Maggio, MS
Jeanette Maggio is a coach, consultant, and experiential workshop facilitator who has been helping organizations, leaders and teams for over 25 years. Her background includes senior executive positions in HR, Organizational Development, Change Leadership and Team and Leadership Development. She is passionate about developing leaders and teams who can lead with authenticity, use power wisely, and consciously create organizational cultures that are high performing, progressive, and compassionate.
Jane Tight, MS
Jane is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Consultant and certified Enneagram teacher who guides clients in personal and professional growth. She works with individuals and groups in private and corporate venues to help them lead lives and careers that are fulfilling, balanced, productive and satisfying. Her client mix is diverse including: CEOs, founder partnerships, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, designers and first-time managers. Jane is a certified Enneagram teacher and has a Masters of Science from the University of Redlands.
David Warner
Dave is an Organization Development (OD) consultant, leadership coach and educator specializing in whole-system approaches to organizational change. He is the Director of the OD Master’s Program at Sonoma State University, and teaches courses like Human Systems Redesign, Facilitation and Training, and Team Development. Dave enjoys mentoring graduate students and supervising their professional practice. Dave consults nationally to organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to help leaders and groups work more effectively.