The Enneagram
The core pattern: what fundamentally drives the leader.
Behavioural depth
Beyond the personality label, to what drives behaviour.
Ennea International's Five Lens Development Platform is a psychometric framework that integrates behavioural insight across five dimensions. It's built for the deep individual work that changes how leaders operate.
We consider it the best in its class for behavioural depth, and reach for it whenever coaching needs to go beneath the surface.
01 / What it measures
Five lenses on one leader.
Rather than a simplistic personality label, the platform reads behaviour through five integrated lenses:
Personal Mastery
Six factors of emotional maturity, from self-acceptance to global connection, built on Peter Senge's work.
Emotional Resilience
How the leader holds up, and recovers, under sustained pressure.
Social Drives
What the leader instinctively moves toward in groups and relationships.
Energy Centres
Whether head, heart, or gut leads when the leader decides.
02 / How it works
5
Integrated behavioural lenses
ICF
Accredited practitioner certification
25+
Years of applied Enneagram insight
43
Page personal feedback report
03 / Where it sits in our method01 / Diagnose 04 / Develop
Built into the 4D methodology.
Where the work is individual (a key executive, a succession candidate) Five Lens gives the depth a 360 can't: what drives the behaviour rather than what it looks like.
The five-lens profile becomes the backbone of the coaching that embeds change, giving coach and leader a shared, precise language for the interior work.
Inside the report
- The Personal Feedback Report works lens by lens: Personal Mastery's six factors, Emotional Resilience, Social Drives, Energy Centres, and the full Enneagram profile with fixation index, Hornevian pattern, and social direction.
- Reflection and coaching questions run throughout. The report is built to be worked through with a coach rather than filed away.
Why we trust it
- Developed by Ennea International (Cape Town, established 2009), drawing on decades of industrial psychology, psychometric assessment design, and behavioural science.
- Practitioner certification is accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
- In professional use with coaches and HR, L&D, and OD practitioners since 2009.
Platform details from fivelensenneagram.co.za.