Interview With Nisha Advani - S4 EP24 - A Social One's Personal Journey

<p>Enneagram 2.0 on a Tuesday? You heard that right! Our hosts have some exciting news to share!</p><p><br></p><p>In this very special episode, Urânio Paes and Beatrice Chestnut greet Nisha Advani, Enneagram coach and corporate consultant. In a heartfelt conversation, Nisha share meaningful insights on the enneagram, carreer and personal journey. Learn more about her:</p><p><br></p><p>Born and grew up in Calcutta, India. Middle daughter; attended to Catholic school (likely T1 Social culture) for 13 years. Came to the USA at age 17 as a Rotary exchange student; attended senior year at a local public school, and lived with a Caucasion family for a year in a small town where almost everyone recognized and enveloped me as &quot;their&quot; exchange student. It was a soft landing for a teenager who had come across the waters alone!</p><p><br></p><p>I came to the USA to study psychology and in my path, after a few detours, found social/organizational psych which was a perfect fit for a strongly group-oriented person. Always knew I had to be very well qualified and differentiated - in my family and social context, life in India was fiercely competitive and very much a numbers game. Got an MBA to support employability, worked in corporate in NYC for some years, and got my green card, surviving horrendous circumstances. </p><p><br></p><p>Got married to a man, who was well settled in India while I was working on my doctorate; happily he was very supportive of my finishing my studies half-way across the world. Changed my dissertation topic to do a more interesting cross-cultural study on conflict resolution (by this time I had spent a year in England and traveled quite extensively). Found it too difficult to finish my research in India and eventually returned to NYC; fortunately he moved to the USA about the time I graduated.</p><p><br></p><p>Worked in Organization and Leadership Development in different companies in California for almost 20 years and about 10 years ago started my own practice as a leadership coach and OD consultant. The Enneagram found me about fifteen years ago and I have been using it formally and informally in my professional work. I also volunteer in a South Asian domestic violence organization and am thinking through how to leverage the wisdom of the Enneagram and bring it into this organization. </p><p> </p><p>I continue to work on my inner growth and am committed to regular mindfulness meditation and yoga practices, focusing most recently esp