AIA Singapore Pte Ltd

IBF fellow, Past FSMA President, LIMRA Master Trainer

“I wish to thank Dr Granville D’Souza and Marion Teo for the profound impact they have brought into my life just from the Enneagram Spectrum certification. I attended their 5 days Enneagram Coaching course in 2018 and that has changed my perspective in the way I coach, train and recruit talents. I have experienced deep transformation in my role as coach, mentor, trainer and industry player over the past few years. I went to their course with scepticism and doubts but I ended up fully convinced that enneagram will be one profiling tool I will be using extensively for the rest of my life. I have been actively practicing enneagram in my everyday life be it at work or at home ever since. In my encounters with Gran and Marion, they found them to be authentic people, ever ready to contribute to the enneagram community. They unselfishly shared their knowledge purely to impact and not just solely for commercial gains. To me, they are the most underrated enneagram masters in town. I have lived it out to share my testimony to anyone who are curious about enneagram. Wait no more, go for the true masters. I’m feeling more grounded in my life now and still progressing strong. My colleagues have observed my proficiency in my enneagram practise. I have been enthusiastically sharing my journey with my friends in the industry and referring Dr Gran and Marion to all my peers.

The most salient outcome of the course was understanding myself as a leader. At the core of it is self-awareness and awareness of the team members I work with and the patterns I adopt. The course has brought me into greater consciousness, especially the innate limitations that have held me back and how I may have made some poor decisions in the past, thinking that they were actually useful. The Enneagram is able to pinpoint with accuracy some of the blind spots that needed to be addressed and it enables a roadmap to be planned out and systematically practiced.

At work, I use enneagram to select candidates for my organisation, it has given me much clarity of the profile I am looking for. It has also enabled me to understand the depth of personality in candidates I recruit, quite often similar kinds of individuals and why the dynamics can afford to change. The knowledge gained specifically about personalities allows me to understand how the combinations of numbers determine success and how to nurture these candidates over time.

I have used the Enneagram extensively to understand each individual better. In the past, these patterns were hidden from me and upon further Enneagram analysis, it has reflected on my patterned choices, preferences and where I was not stretching myself to go out of my comfort zones to develop my team members who sometimes may not necessarily get along with me best for reasons based on certain pre-determined judgments. But now I can exercise choices to witness better results and have them deliver much more effectively. My people have become more responsive to me as I progress along.”