Knowing your Enneagram Number is only the beginning…

When it was time to hire a lead coach for our team at Uplevel You, Elaine Bailey was the natural first choice. The business of coaching and consulting requires some serious skillsets and emotional intelligence. In her role as lead coach for six years here at Uplevel, Elaine supported and coached our client base and led our team of coaches, while supporting me as I grew the company a multi-million dollar empire, serving clients from across the globe.

Elaine knows her stuff, from the inside out. From DiSC to Kolbes to Enneagram, she knows the inner workings of her clients and peers, always able to create a customized approach to the strategy she helps people understand. She also understands the customer journey, the messaging, selling and systems needed to grow a business. Not just as concepts – but from in the trenches.

Elaine cuts right to the bottom line, sees the needs of the situation, finds what’s in the way, and sets about helping you discover solutions. She does this with compassionate grace, and keeps her eye on the end goal. And unlike so many coaches and strategists who show up with agendas of their own, Elaine is 100% present, committed, willing and there to serve in each and every scenario.

When I learned that Elaine was offering a class in the Enneagram, I was excited to be able to join, I have known and respected Elaine for many years. My curiosity was both professional and personal, so I jumped at the chance to work with Elaine’s expertise.

As a personal development coach, I started using this tool as another path to awareness for those who want to understand themselves better as they navigate their life and career.

Professionally, I found that the Enneagram provides a breadth of information about patterns that keep people stuck and it has been a helpful addition to my work. Personally, I found the study of the Enneagram very insightful in my own relationships as well. Family dynamics have become so much more clear. Thank you Elaine!

So much of what we talked about during our 10 weeks together in the Enneagram and the Coach training I used as a self-study. And I’m learning that I love that kinda thing.

The weekly studies, meetings, and discussions were enjoyable and I looked forward to opening each weekly module to dive into new knowledge. Elaine is an amazing teacher and had thought about all of our different styles of acquiring information.

Now I find myself studying people around me, my interactions with them, and observing my responses.

Thank you Elaine for making learning so engaging and fun!

I tried learning about the Enneagram through several video courses and books. My experience was dismal and my learning process was meandering.

Elaine’s vibrancy and sense of humor makes stepping into learning an enjoyable process. The format structure and pacing kept drawing me in and so I stayed focused throughout. I appreciably augmented and enhanced my understanding in a manner I have enjoyed.

My experience in The Enneagram and the Coach has had a positively PROFOUND effect on me. I can appear to be easier going than I am. Actually, I have a tendency to be quite hard on myself. My personal growth has been immense.

Learning this system has laid the foundation for me to be an observer of my patterns rather than a tyrant with myself. It has also given me the ability to step back and OBSERVE another person’s behaviors and not take all so personally. This is quite useful in family situations as well as professional settings when I am marketing, setting up, and delivering my offerings.

Additionally, I am able to have fun and laugh more when I am a participant as well as observer in these settings.

I now have the ability to become an observer of my own patterns of interactions as well as those of others. Keeps me on a more even keel. I am no longer grasping at the Enneagram, I am becoming grounded in understanding.

Having the chance to experience a deep dive study the Enneagram with Elaine and a fab group is not only helpful for me, but also is already making it possible for me to be a better teacher to my students. So many will benefit from what I’m learning now for years to come.

As Elaine’s coaching has helped me for years, I jumped at the chance to learn further from her — in her “Enneagram and the Coach” certification course. Even though I’ve taken several other Enneagram courses and am already using this with my physician coaching clients, I knew Elaine’s work would further deepen my understanding.

Through Elaine’s presentations and the group discussions of practical coaching situations, my understanding of myself and others definitely grew. She clearly fleshed out the ways various Enneagram “types” might show up in coaching relationships, and how we might assist them. Through this work, my compassion for others and myself has deepened and become more consistent. Also, through comfort in the safe space Elaine held for all of us, I could also feel my own creativity coming to life as well. I feel like a big part of me has been set free! AS a result, I look forward to doing even better work with others.

I’ve just completed Elaine’s superb online course – The Enneagram and the Coach. She brings all of the Enneagram types to life, with their unique strengths and patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. She not only shows where each type could benefit from coaching but also helps you to build a repertoire of powerful coaching approaches and questions.

The course is a lively mixture of teaching and group discussion and Elaine brings her own special mixture of wisdom and humour. This course has really opened my eyes to my own patterns and to how I can use the Enneagram to support my clients on their journey of personal development.

I recently completed Elaine’s 10-week Certification program: The Enneagram and the Coach. This program surpassed my expectations as it is packed with a vast amount of content on the enneagram inclusive of multiple tools that I have already put into use in my business as well as my personal life! Gaining this knowledge has been an experience of awakening for me where I finally found the “key” to unlocking what makes me tick, i.e., the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. My enneagram learnings have improved my coaching abilities as it helped me better understand my client’s patterns and provided me with specific coaching observation tips to better coach them. On a personal level, my family has benefitted in their own personal growth as I shared my learnings these past 10 weeks. My family now speaks “enneagram” 😊.

The enneagram has so much wisdom and there is a lot to learn. Elaine has packaged the information in a way that easily builds your knowledge as you create your own Enneagram Manual from her teachings and materials. Throughout the entire course, Elaine was extremely supportive of our cohort. She was always available for questions via email and would go deeper with you, 1-on-1, during her Office Hours where you could ask specific questions about your own enneagram journey, e.g., how to work through your patterns, uncovering your enneatype if you did not know it, brainstorming on how you could integrate the enneagram into your business, etc.

Elaine is a “Brilliant” Coach as her company name states! She is extremely knowledgeable in the enneagram and in general is a fantastic coach and a good soul. I would highly recommend her certification program The Enneagram and the Coach course as well as her as a Transformation Coach!

I joined the Enneagram and the Coach program based on experience both with Elaine’s coaching and the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a comprehensive framework for describing personality traits and is very helpful in understanding and working with other humans.

One of the gems from this program is the link between learning about the Enneagram and actually applying it! This application is so often missing from educational programs. Elaine actually provides a coaching notebook.

I found the information about how people move to other numbers’ traits when stressed or functioning optimally, and the physical and behavioral presentations of various enneatypes to be most interesting.

I also figured out why my husband acts in certain ways and I have so much more compassion for him. I can see where this knowledge might be very helpful in relationships. I use this information as an addition to my assessment process which informs planning and delivery of coaching services.

Elaine also makes herself available in a high touch way through office hours, a call and quick response to emails, which is an outstanding value.

When I heard that Elaine was offering an Enneagram program especially for Coaches, my response was “Yes!” and I registered immediately. Because Elaine is known for her expertise in the Enneagram, I was excited to take advantage of the knowledge she would share in this ten-week course.

This course met, and exceeded, my expectations. I came away with a deeper, richer understanding of the Enneagram as a whole and each of the nine Enneatypes in particular. Elaine fleshed out each Type in great detail and the case studies she provided solidified the learning.

There’s so much I love about this program, things like her live weekly presentations of content information, detailed note-taking sheets provided for each Type, actual case studies with small group discussions, note-taking sheets provided to record coaching information for each Type, materials and guidance to create our own Enneagram Coaching Manual of information and resources, recorded lessons that can be reviewed as desired for our extended learning, weekly office hours to address questions and provide clarification, weekly assessments to solidify our weekly understanding, a ‘Wrap up Session’ that brought all nine Types together and provided a big picture of the Enneagram, and last but not least, a mystery panel of guests who provided information and insight into their Enneatypes through a fun question and answer session.

This course has been a pivotal experience in expanding my understanding of the Enneagram, with its wings, sub-types, levels of development, and differing needs for approaches in coaching the nine Enneatypes. As an added bonus, the course deepened my understanding of my own Enneatype and made a huge impact on my self-awareness.

What’s not to Love? Elaine has a deep background in coaching and a solid approach that cuts right through to the root of what we need to succeed. I had the opportunity to listen to her lecture and interact with her at a weekend course with Christine Kane, and her professional, competent mannerism really made her stand out.