
Joan Ryan
Affiliated Faculty
Joan Ryan specializes in Organization Development and the Enneagram. She is a Senior Leadership Coach and has worked internationally in for profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations including USAID. She is an Adjunct Professor at Boston College. She previously worked as an attorney. She served 2 terms on the IEA Board in the early 2000s.
An internationally recognized Enneagram expert. Joan completed training as a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher in 1996. She had the distinct honor of being mentored directly by both Helen Palmer and the late Dr. David Daniels.
Most recently, she taught with Dr. Dan Siegel in the first two public workshops presenting the material in the forthcoming book Personality and Wholeness in Therapy: Integrating 9 Patterns of Developmental Pathways in Clinical Practice (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) Paperback – November 19, 2024.
Her current focus is exploring intersections between the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems (IFS-Institute.org). She co-authored a chapter in “Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends”, August 2023. With her teaching partner, Tammy Sollenberger, she offers classes and consulting groups along with individual coaching.
An internationally recognized Enneagram expert. Joan completed training as a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher in 1996. She had the distinct honor of being mentored directly by both Helen Palmer and the late Dr. David Daniels.
Most recently, she taught with Dr. Dan Siegel in the first two public workshops presenting the material in the forthcoming book Personality and Wholeness in Therapy: Integrating 9 Patterns of Developmental Pathways in Clinical Practice (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) Paperback – November 19, 2024.
Her current focus is exploring intersections between the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems (IFS-Institute.org). She co-authored a chapter in “Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends”, August 2023. With her teaching partner, Tammy Sollenberger, she offers classes and consulting groups along with individual coaching.