08/27/2025

The Case for Ignoring Your Weaknesses for Leadership Growth

Enneagram innovator Ingrid Stabb reveals why disregarding your weaknesses is the smartest growth move you’ll ever make and why it's your strengths that are the shortcut to purpose and vitality, especially through collaboration.

Ingrid shares the core of her new book The Nine Points of Potential with its purpose points, propulsion points, and protection points, and explains why focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses is the real path to growth. Together we talk about burnout, the pilot light inside us that never goes out, and the connective tissue that brings teams, families, and communities back to life.

Sheila and Ingrid coach each other and share some real time insights you don't want to miss if you have any interest in living, leading, and collaborating with the best of yourself.

Learn more about Ingrid at https://www.ingridstabb.com/

Take the new enneagram test at https://diagnostic.strengthsinnumbers.com/free-strengths-type-test/ And get her book The 9 Points of Potential wherever books are sold.


Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Collaboration and the Enneagram

03:04 The Essence of Collaboration as Self-Care

05:51 The Importance of Community and Connection

08:20 Understanding Trauma in Organizations

11:10 Exploring the Enneagram Framework

13:41 The Nine Points of the Enneagram

16:40 Personal Insights and the Impact of the Enneagram

19:22 The Role of Individuality in Teams

22:04 Connecting Through Strengths and Purpose

24:48 Loving Ourselves Back to Life

27:43 Indispensable Roles in Work and Community

31:52 Honoring Individual Journeys

32:39 Strengths-Based Team Dynamics

35:32 Affirmation and Team Transformation

38:15 Understanding Personal Strengths

40:08 Navigating Vulnerability in Leadership

46:30 Building Resilience and Self-Trust

53:10 Collaboration as Self-Care