In this interview, Patricia Njoya shares how working with her leadership coach taught her a lot about herself both as a person and as a leader. She describes how she uses the Enneagram framework to understand her own reactions, behaviors, and perfectionist habits to make better choices.

In this episode of the Being Human is Good For Business Podcast we talk to a leader whose career at GSK and Unilever spanned six countries. Helen Appleby led a $1 billion consumer healthcare business before changing track to focus on women’s leadership. Her book, the Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership is a practical career guide to help women develop the self awareness, confidence and tools they need to take on leadership roles.

Genentec's Mary Riley started her legal career in law firms, but it was only when she moved to Genentech 15 years ago, that she realised she needed to be more strategic and thoughtful about people management issues. That’s when she started exploring the Enneagram, a human development framework that allows people to become aware of their own automatic patterns of behavior.

In this episode we talk to a leader whose innovative thinking has contributed to the Canadian banking system being the envy of the world. The Enneagram system allowed him and his team the opportunity to get to know one another better as each of them explores their own core motivations and inherent gifts as leaders.

In this Episode of the Being Human is Good For Business Podcast we talk to leaders who were at the helm of a merger of two Nova Scotia nursing regulators. This was more than a coming together of organizations, it was the start of a new beginning for the nursing profession across this Canadian maritime province.

“Your mindset plays a major role in determining your leadership style,” says Vidhu Dev. “A creation mindset brings energy to your team. It encourages robust dialogue and causes people to test their thinking and experiment in new ways.”

“A business wins or loses on people and that’s why it’s critical to have a strong team and to invest in developing their talent,” explains Joel Knutson, EA's VP of Worldwide Customer Experience. “I try to always create an environment where our people can be their best and can do their best work.”

IBI President Paul Johnson says, "By going through the Enneagram process and learning more about ourselves as well as others, we vastly improved our working relationships. It doesn't fix everything but overall, your organization will run better, be more efficient and more effective."

Listen and learn how you can now finally stop striving to be your best self, and instead just relax into being the fabulous person you already are.

In the five years he was Gillette’s head of innovation for the Oral-B brand, Gary Cohen and his team doubled the size of the business, developed a billion-dollar brand, ideated 30 new products many of which went on to be $100 million product lines, and 15 years later they are still seen on supermarket shelves. The brands were instrumental in the valuation of Gillette when it was sold to Proctor & Gamble.