What Type of Leader Are You?
Using the Enneagram System to Identify and Grow Your Leaderships
Strengths and Achieve Maximum Success

Book Endorsements

Business Leaders

Todd Pierce
Vice President, Corporate Information Technology, Genentech, Inc.
No other approach to leadership growth is as accessible, relevant, and powerful as the path-breaking framework provided in What Type of Leader Are You? I have shared this approach with my leadership team, and I’ve observed breakthroughs by dozens of leaders. Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s integration of the Enneagram with the seven critical leadership competencies is brilliant. Her methods enable you to increase self-awareness while also acquiring the concrete tools and emotional energy you need to become the leader you really want to be. I have seen this book change lives – it certainly has changed mine.

Colleen Gentry
Senior Vice President for Executive Development, Wachovia Corporation
Ginger's newest book is a practical tool for executives interested in real evolution as leaders. The information in What Type of Leader Are You? is pragmatic and results focused, and it doesn't shortchange the underlying depth of the Enneagram as a tool for transformation. In this book, Ginger offers a unique combination of business savvy, organization development, and in-depth self-development perspectives. Her solid understanding of today’s business environment makes the book a tool that leaders can use repeatedly to enrich and expand their capabilities, turning already effective leaders into truly influential ones.

Chad Jorgensen.
Managing Director, NU-EAR Electronics, Inc.
What Type of Leader Are You? creates a crucial bridge between big business and the Enneagram. Ginger's latest book is designed for the true professional: she applies the Enneagram to mainstream business applications through competencies such as Leadership Self-Mastery, Know the Business: Think and Act Strategically, and Make Optimal Business Decisions. Not only do readers learn about their leadership characteristics, but they’re also provided with self-assessment exercises and Enneagram style-specific development recommendations for each competency area. As the managing director of one of the nation’s leading hearing health care manufacturers, I recommend What Type of Leader Are You? and can't wait until Ginger creates training classes for this material. I will be filling her courses with enthusiastic employees.

Sara Isabel Behmer
Human Resources Executive Director, AVON Cosmetics, Ltd.
To be a great leader is a desire of all executives, but it is a challenge for many. This book is like a treasure map that shows the nine different ways to reach excellence in leadership. Enjoy this journey!

Pravit Chitnarapong
President and CEO, Black Canyon Coffee Co. (Thailand), Ltd.
What Type of Leader Are You? is different from other Enneagram books in that it describes real life leadership lessons and provides practical and concrete guidelines, diagrams, and examples, all of which are very useful and apply to business life. I highly recommend that leaders at all levels of management read this book if they want to create winning teams in their organizations.

Nuala Ahern
Former member of the European Parliament (Ireland)
Ginger Lapid-Bogda's new book makes a vital contribution to the area of developing successful leadership skills. What Type of Leader Are You? is an essential book for people in leadership positions who wish to develop and raise the level of their true capabilities. The huge pressures and global challenges facing today's leaders make excellence in leadership critical to the success of any enterprise. This book is a superb tool for working with people of different cultures with intelligence and understanding.

Enneagram Teachers

Helen Palmer
Author of The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work
Dr. Lapid-Bogda adroitly describes how different types of people fulfill the core competencies of leadership in their own ways. Through the lens of the Enneagram, she directs our attention back to ourselves, and in a remarkably evenhanded and constructive way creates nine professional development programs, each anchored in self-observation and mindfulness of our own internal patterns.

Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
The Enneagram Institute, authors of Personality Types and The Wisdom of the Enneagram
We recommend this book for anyone in leadership wishing to use the superbly insightful tool of the Enneagram to access their innate gifts, identify their biases, and become truly great leaders.

David Daniels, M.D.
Co-author of The Essential Enneagram, co-founder of the Enneagram Professional Training Program, and clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School
Ginger Lapid-Bogda has once again come up with an outstanding work. What Type of Leader Are You? is practical, insightful, thoughtful, and specific. Ginger covers all aspects of leadership, from business practices to leadership skills and people skills, and she offers a rich array of vignettes, examples, and exercises. Each chapter is virtually a book in itself. What Ginger achieves in this book is an integration of Enneagram understandings and business practices, which alone would make the book well worth reading.

Thomas Condon
Author of The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide
An excellent book that focuses the Enneagram's powerful insights on understanding and improving the reader's natural style of leadership. Filled with boots-on-the-ground examples, What Type of Leader Are You? is not just for leaders but for anyone who wants to grow and excel. It will help you identify and stretch your core competencies and natural talents, both on the job and off.

Jerome Wagner, Ph.D.
Athor of The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles
Ginger has waved her creative wand over what is known about effective leadership skills and what the Enneagram says about nine personality styles, and out has popped this very readable brew of both. If you want to be a conscious leader, this book will wake you up.

Organization Development Consultants

Beverly Kaye, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO of Career Systems International and co-author of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay
If you are a leader and think you've seen your share of books on this subject, don't stop until you’ve added this to your collection. Clearly, Ginger Lapid-Bogda has deep experience in coaching and consulting to a wide variety of leaders and their teams. Her sound advice is based on years of practice and strong theory, and this book is chock-full of excellent suggestions and astute examples that amplify her points and provide readers with a multitude of teachable moments.

Cresencio Torres, Ph.D.
Senior Enterprise Associate, Center for Creative Leadership
I have been reading this book with complete interest and amazement. What Type of Leader Are You? contains a unique combination of both Eastern and Western perspectives on leadership essence and development. Ginger Lapid-Bogda has contributed a culturally relevant view of what constitutes leadership success – self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and business savvy. She illustrates her ideas in a practical, compelling, and straightforward way. The nine Enneagram styles and related leadership competencies identify strengths and opportunities that are specific, achievable, and relevant to the business of leadership development. I strongly recommend the book to anyone on the leadership journey.