ABOUT WHITNEY

I am dedicated to activating evolving leaders’ highest potential, elevating individual self-awareness, and harnessing the power of a highly motivated, collaborative team.

As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I understand the complexities of balancing priorities, processes, profits, and the competing personalities of a team. Upleveling my emotional intelligence was the key to my sense of personal joy and my team’s resounding success, and I am passing along the gift taht keeps on giving.

Hi, I’m whitney!
AND I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Thank you for joining me on this journey towards evoking your next level of emotional intelligence.

Proud Mom to an English Bulldog named Winston and 47 house plants

Owner of Ivory House Photography

Confidence Award Winner for Inspiring Women of Iowa in 2020

Wellness Guru, Mediocre Yogi, Novice Runner

Avid reader, audiobook listener, and podcast consumer

Lover of long walks and hammocks

THE FUN STUFF

Certified Enneagram

Facilitator through

Integrative

Enneagram Solutions

Entrepreneur

and Educator

Facilitated in over

12 countries

Coached over

600 Leaders

Worked with

40+ corporations

Whitney’s story

In 2016, I returned to Des Moines, Iowa after 10 years away, moved in with my mom, and launched my first business. I had $15 in my bank account and no backup plan. For some people, this risk would have created inaction. For me, it was the ultimate motivation.

I sprinted every day from coffee to lunch to happy hour, making a new connection at every meal. I took whatever work came my way. I got up early and stayed up late. I said yes to it all and quickly built my business from zero to six figures in one year.

Fast forward three years later and that business was thriving, but I was sinking. I had a small dedicated part-time team. I knew it was time to expand but there was too much of my fear in the way. To grow, I had to address the parts of me that need to learn to be open, trust, and collaborate.

Enter, the Enneagram and Emotional Intelligence.

The energy was vibrant

“Whitney did a good job OF weaving OUR feedback, Information, AND reactions INTO HER MESSAGE, MAKING THE POINT PERSONAL AND RELEVANT to our MISSION.”

— Megan, Holmes Murphy

CURIOUS QUESTIONS ANSWERED:

  • Yes! I work with high acheivers turned managers on the nuances and challeges that come from transitioning from the key producer, to producing key result through the actions of others. If you’re a high achiever looking to channel your powerful results through a loyal and productive team, I’m the coach for you.

  • I discovered the Enneagram in my mid-twenties while living with three other single women in a house we named “The Foxden.” Late one night we took an online assessment and were stunned at the results. Not only were they accurate. They were eery. We understood each other in a new way that night, and it deepened our friendship for life.

    It’s been over a decade since I took my first Enneagram assessment that typed me as an Eight. Exploring my type has been the key to directing my growth journey and supported me in building and maintaining strong friendships, networks, and teams.

    To this day, my “Foxden” roommates and I still get together and talk life and Enneagram, because, for us, they are forever the same.

  • Prior to 2019, I had never heard the term emotional intelligence.

    I listened to a trusted mentor and said yes to a four-month intensive EQ training, the sole focus being upleveling my emotional intelligence. I thought I was going to be reading books, instead, I spent four months turning myself inside out, receiving feedback that was hard to hear, and truths about myself that felt like freedom. 


    After my initial four-month program, I completed the masters level EQ training and coached and captained cohorts through the program. 

Students ask why my way of teaching the Enneagram lands so deeply. I credit my own EQ training for my self-awareness and ability to connect in every room I enter.

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Ivory House Photography is my first business, found 7+ years ago with the belief that every single human deserves to feel comfortable and confident in front of the camera.

If you have yet to feel that, then click below! We’d love to meet you.