“Oh, this isn’t good.”

The blinking dashboard, clicking sounds, and flickering headlights on my van signaled real trouble. As I pulled into the QuickTrip at dusk, I dreaded turning off the car because I just knew it wouldn’t start again.

So stuck in rural north Tennessee, 3 ½ hours from home with my 17...

Learn how your Enneagram personality activators can impact your leadership and relationships. Identify your activators and choose a different response with these tips.

Stranded and Activated. What’s a leader to do?

New Year. New Opening: Using Values to Improve Your Leadership. Exploring your values is not creating a few feel-good words to share on a review or in an interview. Values are the foundation you build to your engagement with the world.

New Year. New Opening: Using Values to Improve Your Leadership

Owning who you are, seeing the deep parts of your Enneagram personality out in the open, and sharing your values…well, it feels exposed, vulnerable…almost dangerous. That’s why so many leaders just don’t do it. They ignore their personality and disregard their values. It feels easier and simpler.

The truth: it’s ineffective, exhausting, and infinitely harder.

Core Values of Each Enneagram Type (And Why Leaders Need to Know Them)

Great leadership begins with the stories you tell yourself. This process I share here is so powerful and critical to leadership that I use it with my corporate and individual clients and have built it as a key part of the Joyosity Retreat.

Your Leadership is in Your Story

Change the story. Change the results. Your personality is lying to you and you’re probably believing it…To change your results, you have to know the story that’s motivating you.

Change the Story. Change the Results.

Five Engagement Skills Every Leader Needs. Engagement doesn’t just happen. Yet when you build these five engagement skills, it almost feels like it spreads like a viral video of a family jumping for joy together.

Five Engagement Skills Every Leader Needs

How to use the Enneagram to Improve Employee Engagement
What motivates you may demotivate and discourage others. That’s why understanding the personalities of your team changes your approach to increasing your engagement, from creating agreements and responsibilities to timelines and tasks.

How to use the Enneagram to Improve Employee Engagement

One of the primary engagement and leadership skills you need is great communication. After accurate self-awareness, communication comes in a close second to the top skills you need as a healthy and effective leader.

How To Communicate As A Leader

Communication is the primary engagement skill we use to get anything done. Which is why communication is a necessary skill for each and every leader.

How To Use The Enneagram To Improve Communication

Why Joy At Work Is Profitable

The Emotional Terrorist Of Your Enneagram Type

Jenn speaks, writes, and coaches with joy. I help people communicate, work through conflict, and self-awareness with the Enneagram. I ask big questions that lead to big dreams and big ideas and better living. Usually, that means laughing.
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