This document discusses how the Enneagram personality typing system can help increase emotional intelligence. It defines emotional intelligence as the ability to recognize and manage one's own emotions and influence the emotions of others. The Enneagram is introduced as a tool to gain self-observation, self-understanding, and self-transformation by identifying one of nine personality types, each with different thinking and behavioral patterns stemming from core motivations. Each Enneagram type is listed along with characteristics and how developing emotional intelligence can help with personal growth.