Aligned by Design: Unlock the inner clarity that fuels your most powerful, purposeful leadership
Paula Shannon
You’ve earned your seat. Now it’s time to lead from your center.
If you’re like many purpose-driven, high-performing leaders, you’ve spent years delivering results, holding complexity, and showing up for everyone around you. But even seasoned leaders reach a moment when insight not effort is the missing piece.
This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about clarifying what’s underneath it all.
Using the Integrative9 Enneagram (iEQ9), a professional-grade, research-backed assessment, we’ll uncover your internal patterns, core motivations, and adaptive behaviors. Then, through three strategic coaching sessions, we’ll translate those insights into powerful leadership shifts.
Whether you’re navigating transition, scaling your influence, or preparing for a new chapter, this experience offers a structured reset, one that connects who you are with how you lead.
This is about leadership by design.
Testimonials
“While at first I admit I was a teeny bit resistant to the Enneagram work we did (sorry Paula!), the increased self-awareness has seriously paid off. Paula helped me grow and define myself as a leader. I saw an immediate impact on the engagement and collaboration within my team.”
- Emily SK, executive director in the education sector
“She asks great questions, captures and shares themes across sessions, and offers insights that push my thinking and inform my leadership actions. I have a clearer sense of my strengths, my goals, my values, and my learning edges.”
- Heather J, higher ed senior leader
Working with Paula has made me a better version of myself. I now lead with clarity, calm, and intentionality. She helped me reflect on my own patterns and step into new approaches that serve me and others better.”
- Ryan L, assistant superintendent of a school district
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this for?
This experience is for mission-driven leaders across nonprofit, education, philanthropy, and values-aligned corporate spaces. Whether you're a VP, Executive Director, Chief of Staff, or a rising leader navigating transition, this process offers clarity, alignment, and actionable insight.
Is the iEQ9 assessment research-backed?
Yes. The iEQ9 is a validated leadership assessment built using item response theory and factor analysis. It demonstrates high internal reliability (above 0.80) and is used by leadership teams at organizations like Google, McKinsey, and Yale.
How does this differ from a free Enneagram test?
This is not a personality quiz. The iEQ9 is a professional diagnostic designed for leadership and organizational development. It offers nuanced insight into your type, patterns, instincts, leadership impact, and level of self-awareness—and includes strategic coaching to help you apply it effectively.
How long does the full experience take?
Plan on setting aside an uninterrupted hour in a quiet setting to take the IEQ9 assessment.
You are encouraged to print the report and spend 45 minutes reading the first 15 pages carefully, taking notes on what most resonates or challenges you prior to the first session.
Sessions are typically scheduled across 4–6 weeks. Each is 75 minutes, with time in between for experimentation, application, and reflection.
You are encouraged to print the report and spend 45 minutes reading the first 15 pages carefully, taking notes on what most resonates or challenges you prior to the first session.
Sessions are typically scheduled across 4–6 weeks. Each is 75 minutes, with time in between for experimentation, application, and reflection.
What’s the investment?
The regular price for this package is $995.
For a limited time, you can access the full experience—including the professional iEQ9 report and three executive coaching sessions—for $796 with a 20% early access discount.
Use code CLARITY20 at checkout to receive your discount.
Offer expires August 15, 2025.
For a limited time, you can access the full experience—including the professional iEQ9 report and three executive coaching sessions—for $796 with a 20% early access discount.
Use code CLARITY20 at checkout to receive your discount.
Offer expires August 15, 2025.
Can I use this with my team?
Yes. This process can be adapted for teams, retreats, or group coaching experiences. If you're a leader of leaders, contact Paula directly for a custom proposal.
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Price
$1,250
This package includes
✅ Professional iEQ9 Enneagram Assessment & 40+ Page Executive Report
Your individualized report includes:
- Core Type & Subtype – the foundational lens through which you engage leadership, fear, feedback, and drive
- Wings & Lines of Growth/Stress – how you flex and stretch under pressure
- Centers of Intelligence – your instinctual, emotional, and mental processing styles
- Trigger Patterns & Defense Mechanisms – insight into how you react when under strain
- Self-Awareness Levels – a developmental index of your current integration
- Leadership Impact Data – how your personality influences team dynamics, decision-making, and relationships
This is not a personality label—it’s a leadership mirror.
✅ Three Private Executive Coaching Sessions (75 minutes each)
Led by Paula Shannon, a certified iEQ9 practitioner and former C-level systems leader. Each session is designed to move beyond insight into practical leadership transformation.
Led by Paula Shannon, a certified iEQ9 practitioner and former C-level systems leader. Each session is designed to move beyond insight into practical leadership transformation.
SESSION 1: The Core Drive
Uncover your leadership “home base” by identifying your core motivation, fear, and patterns of behavior. See how these forces shape your presence and impact under pressure. This session builds the foundation for self-awareness so you can shift from autopilot to intentional, conviction-driven leadership.
This is where high performers finally understand why they lead the way they do—and how to shift from autopilot to alignment.
SESSION 2: Adaptive Intelligences
Discover how your Head, Heart, and Body centers shape your decisions, communication, and relationships. You’ll see which center dominates, which supports, and which is underutilized—and how that imbalance affects your leadership. Learn practices to strengthen neglected centers and lead with more presence, balance, and wisdom.
This session gives language and strategy to your reactivity, helping you lead with depth, not defense.
SESSION 3: Leading from Integration
Use your type map as a tool for sustainable leadership, values-based decision-making, and aligned influence.
Go beyond your default patterns by exploring the wings and growth/release lines built into your type. These pathways expand your leadership repertoire, offering fresh strategies for resilience, balance, and influence. You’ll leave with concrete practices for integrating these perspectives into your daily leadership.
Use your type map as a tool for sustainable leadership, values-based decision-making, and aligned influence.
Go beyond your default patterns by exploring the wings and growth/release lines built into your type. These pathways expand your leadership repertoire, offering fresh strategies for resilience, balance, and influence. You’ll leave with concrete practices for integrating these perspectives into your daily leadership.
This isn’t a coaching conversation—it’s the beginning of your new operating system.
Integration Support Between Sessions
You’ll receive curated resources, prompts, and tools to help you apply what you’re learning between sessions—making the insights stick and the growth sustainable.
You’ll receive curated resources, prompts, and tools to help you apply what you’re learning between sessions—making the insights stick and the growth sustainable.