Stop the internal friction slowing down your school.
A school strategy is only as good as the team delivering it. We help Executive and Middle Leaders move beyond 'walking on eggshells' to build the high-trust infrastructure required to lead a complex organisation without burning out.
Your leadership teams are likely filled with passionate, capable educators. But when a team is misaligned, everything feels harder than it needs to be.
Valuable energy is lost to circular debates, 'shadow politics', and misunderstood communication.
This isn't just frustrating; it is an Operational Risk.
Dysfunctional team dynamics are a leading cause of the Psychosocial Hazard known as 'Poor Support'. When leaders are disjointed, decision-making stalls, and the psychological safety of the entire school is compromised. You cannot lead a regulated school with a fractured team.
We use the iEQ9 Enneagram — a data-driven tool trusted by high-performance organisations globally, like NASA, KPMG, and Google — to map the 'Human Dynamics' of your leadership group.
We don't use this for 'personality labelling.' We use it to build Operational Empathy.
By decoding the underlying stress triggers and blind spots of your team members, we remove the friction that drains your team. We turn personality clashes into a functioning system of diverse strengths.
We tailor the delivery to the specific operational reality of your leadership tiers.
For Principals, Deputies, and Business Managers
The Goal: Unblocking Strategic Execution.
Diagnose Friction: Identify exactly why the team gets stuck (e.g., Is the team too risk-averse? Too impulsive? Avoidant of conflict?).
Speed of Decision Making: When you understand how your colleagues process information, meetings become shorter and more decisive.
Modeling Safety: Ensuring the Executive Team models the regulation and respect they expect from the staff.
For Heads of Department, Year Level Coordinators, and Pastoral Care Teams
The Goal: Burnout Prevention & Cohesion. These teams carry the heaviest emotional load in the school. They are often the 'shock absorbers' for student and staff distress.
Preventing Compassion Fatigue: Helping leaders recognise their own stress signals before they burn out.
Collaborative Flow: Moving from 'siloed working' to a support network where leaders feel backed by their colleagues.
Psychosocial Safety: Meeting your Duty of Care to provide supportive relationships for staff in high-demand roles.
"Jen introduced us to the Enneagram, a tool that proved invaluable. Through her expert facilitation, we gained a deeper understanding of our individual strengths... and in turn, insights into how we could work together more efficiently."
"I found the ‘Emotional Intelligence in Action’ workshop to be incredibly valuable... I look forward to developing my own understanding of my personality type, both personally and professionally, and how this can help me to co-exist amongst a diverse Leadership team."
This is not a 'one-off' inspiration day. It is a process of Team Architecture.
Each leader completes the iEQ9 Professional Assessment, generating a 40+ page report on their individual leadership style, blind spots, and communication preferences.
We generate a iEQ9 Team Report that visualises the collective dynamic (e.g., 'This team is high on Empathy but low on Structure'). This data reveals exactly where your team is getting stuck.
A facilitated workshop where we decode the dynamics, 'clear the air,' and build a new charter for how the team will communicate and handle conflict.
Retention: Gallup data reveals that 70% of the variance in staff engagement is determined solely by the manager. We help your leaders lead in a way that keeps their best people.
Speed: Faster execution with less interpersonal drag.
Safety: A reduction in 'relationship conflict' (a key Psychosocial Hazard), creating a safer, more sustainable work environment.
A regulated school starts with a regulated team.
You cannot ask your staff to be calm and cohesive if their leaders are fractured. Let’s build the psychological safety at the core, so it ripples into the classroom.