Member Directory
Sandra Smith
Sandra is a certified IEA Accredited Professional and has taught the Enneagram System for over 23 years. She teaches internationally and co-host the podcast Heart of the Enneagram with Christopher Copeland. She is a mentor for TNE for students certifying to teach the Enneagram.
Sandra works full time with the Enneagram System offering online and on site public workshops and retreats as well as staff development trainings in corporate, non-profit and faith community settings.
Organizational clients include Oak Ridge National Lab, Biltmore Company, East Fork Pottery, and Vistage CEOs.
She offers spiritual direction and uses the Enneagram to deepen the work. Sandra is a frequent and well-known speaker at SDI (Spiritual Directors…
N'Shama Sterling
N’SHAMA STERLING values inquiry, self-reflection, and compassionate listening which are the core of her work with the Enneagram. Deeply immersed in the art and practice of spiritual guidance, her holistic approach, wisdom, and intuition supports deepening learning and transformation as part of the journey of the soul.
N’Shama (BSEE, MA ABS) has been a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher since 2002. She brought the Enneagram into The Boeing Company, worked extensively with executive coaches for Vistage, built a strong Enneagram community in Seattle, and designed and led spiritually oriented programs for groups of individual seekers. She relishes the mentoring process and helping mentees in developing unconscious strengths.
Sandhya Sudhakar
Sandhya Sudhakar is a certified leadership and career coach, Enneagram practitioner, speaker, facilitator, and the founder of Self At Work. She takes a trauma-informed, inclusive approach to leadership development and well-being at work. Through Self At Work, Sandhya helps leaders build meaningful connections with themselves, their teams, and their work so they can achieve breakthrough business results without burning out their employees (or themselves).
Prior to starting Self At Work, Sandhya built a successful career in sales and marketing for 13 years at Procter & Gamble, where she earned awards for game-changing strategy and excellence in managing others. Following her time at P&G, Sandhya held multiple leadership roles where she guided teams through…
Tod Tappert
Tod Tappert consults with a variety of organizations and their leaders as a coach and strategist. His work focuses on organization, executive and board development and stems from a long professional history in senior executive roles in health care provider, health education and policy settings. He uses the Enneagram in his work as a way of helping clients better understand themselves and their experiences in the workplace and beyond.
From 2007 to 2018, he served as the vice president for culture and learning and the chief learning officer at the Greenville Health System, a 15,000-employee provider system in South Carolina. There, he introduced the Enneagram to…
James Gary Trantham
J. Gary Trantham, MD
Integrative Coaching and Consulting
Mind-Body-Spirit
www.coachingmindbodyspirit.net
Professional Enneagram teacher in the Narrative Tradition
As retired family practice physician and psychotherapist/psychiatrist, I offer integrative life coaching with emphasis on the enneagram, for physicians and other professionals who are seeking change, growth, and to reclaim their joy and wholeness.
Evan Turner
While volunteering in India in 2010, a chance encounter led Evan to the Enneagram, and an immediate and profound appreciation of this work took root in her life. First and foremost a devoted student, she has studied with the Enneagram Institute and TNE, and is currently working to complete her certification as a Narrative Enneagram Teacher and Practitioner. Evan is honored to serve on the board of TNE and is focused on broadening the platform for this work at both the local and national level. It is her desire to assist in capturing a wider audience amid the younger generation while maintaining the spirit, the method and the teaching standards of the Narrative Tradition.…
Liz Turnwald
Liz Turnwald, MDiv, is an Enneagram teacher, spiritual director, and musician. She was mostly recently a chaplain and outdoor educator with a nonprofit serving Boston youth and works closely with a women’s interfaith nonprofit in spiritual programming and design. Liz earned her Master of Divinity from the Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. While she has worked in spiritual capacities with folks across the lifespan, Liz has a particular passion for working with young and young-at-heart women in their pursuit of deepening spiritual awareness and both inner and outer liberation. Additional influences she brings to her life and work include holistic healing, chronic pain management, eco-spirituality, Internal Family Systems,…
Jeanette van Stijn
Jeanette works daily with the Enneagram, focusing on teaching, coaching, team building, writing, and more. She also co-hosts The Narrative Tradition Podcast with Peter O'Hanrahan. Together with the Enneagram Europe team, she is organizing the first Enneagram Europe Summer School in 2025. Interested to learn more? Visit www.enneagram-europe.com.
Further, Jeanette is a leading Certified Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition in Europe, having run Enneagram Professional Training Programs for over 20 years. As one of the early Licensed Affiliates of the Palmer/Daniels school (2004), her school and programs are also all accredited by the International Enneagram Association.
Since 2001, Jeanette has pioneered work in harnessing the transformative power of…
Vickie Vann, LCSW
I am a licensed Psychotherapist in practice in the San Francisco Bay area and work via zoom and phone. After over 30 years experience I continue to be awed by the lasting changes I see people make in their lives. My approach is interactive, respectful and down to earth and I love incorporating the powerful Enneagram in my work.