Big Self School helps leaders and teams see the unconscious patterns blocking them from their biggest impact.
We work at the intersection of three powerful methodologies: Enneagram-based leadership development, conscious leadership principles, and systemic change management. Because here's what we know—organizational dysfunction is never just about one toxic leader, one broken process, or one dysfunctional team. It's about the entire emotional system and how anxiety moves through it.
How We Work
We start where most leadership development doesn't: with brutal honesty about your automatic patterns. Using the Enneagram not as a personality quiz but as a precision diagnostic tool, we help you see exactly how your unconscious programming shows up in how you lead, how you react under pressure, and how you inadvertently create the very problems you're trying to solve.
Our 360 developmental feedback goes beyond traditional performance reviews. It reveals how your leadership patterns are actually landing with your team—not just what you intend, but what people experience. This creates the mirror you need to see your blind spots and the specific growth edges that will unlock your next level of impact.
We also deploy our proprietary Team Health Index, which scores the actual wellbeing of your team across the dimensions that matter most: psychological safety, trust, communication patterns, conflict resolution, values alignment, and resilience. This isn't a feel-good survey—it's a diagnostic that shows you precisely where your team is hemorrhaging energy and where to intervene for maximum impact.
Then we go deeper. We help leaders develop self-differentiation—the capacity to stay grounded in your own values and vision while remaining genuinely connected to your team. To manage your own reactivity instead of absorbing and amplifying everyone else's anxiety. To lead with clarity even when the system is pressuring you to rescue, fix, people-please, or conform.
This isn't about learning communication techniques or implementing a new framework. It's about fundamentally shifting how you show up so that your presence itself becomes the intervention.
The Emma AI Difference
Our work is powered by Emma AI, an assessment platform that changes the game for how leadership development actually happens. Emma doesn't just tell you your Enneagram type and send you on your way. She gives you your precise developmental growth path based on your specific type, subtype, and leadership goals. She identifies the specific behaviors and patterns you need to work on right now, not someday. And she provides ongoing AI-powered coaching support between sessions, so you're not alone in the work and the transformation actually sticks.
What Changes
When leaders do this work, everything shifts. They stop being managed by the organization's anxiety and start managing their own emotional state. They make decisions from clarity rather than reactivity. They create the kind of psychological safety where people can actually tell the truth, take risks, and do their best work.
Teams stop wasting energy on interpersonal drama and start functioning with genuine collaboration and clear accountability. Trust goes up. Turnover goes down. People stop quietly looking for the exit.
Cultures transform from places of chronic stress and performance theater into environments where emotional intelligence becomes competitive advantage—where people bring their 'big selves,' conflicts get resolved instead of avoided, and the mission actually moves forward.
And bottom lines reflect what happens when human energy stops hemorrhaging into reactive decision-making, leadership churn, and organizational dysfunction—and starts flowing toward the actual work that matters.
