Enneagram Type 5: The Observer, Learning & Practice

For over 20 years, Leslie has been teaching, writing, facilitating, coaching, spiritual guidance and leading workshops and retreats with women, leaders, teams in transition and church and spiritual communities.

Her work focuses on 3 Centered Awareness and Leadership, the Enneagram, Integral theory, Contemplative Wisdom, grief and loss work. Her newest work is Thresholds: supporting people in midlife transitions.

She is the creator and author of online course curriculums with Integral Life, Coming Home; Between You and Love: Coming Home Embodied and co-developer of Patterns of Being: Where the Narrative Enneagram and Integral Meet.

She holds a Master’s in theology from Xavier University, is a certified teacher and trainer in the Narrative Enneagram, the lineage of Dr. David Daniels and Helen Palmer, a certified trainer and coach with the Enneagram in Business , Embodied Transformation, Somatic Experiencing® for Healing Trauma and the Integral Theory certification program at JFK University.

In 2019, she was awarded the Anna E. and William F. Madges Award at Xavier University for distinguished contribution to society

In 2011-13, she co-developed an Enneagram Centers Course which she has taught classes, corporate environments, retreat centers and universities in her community, the US and with people and communities from around the world.

The course, now available here, focuses on the functions of 3 centers that develop our capacity for conscious leadership and relationship: somatic, emotional and perceptual intelligences through the lens of the Enneagram.

She is the former editor of Nine Points Magazine, the publication of the International Enneagram Association (IEA), former board member of the IEA and former board member of the Narrative Enneagram. Currently, she is the Enneagram trainer for Integral Recovery and iAwake Technologies and is a Core Facilitator for The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art and Action in Cincinnati, Ohio.