Kristin Hesch

Associate Director of Community Outreach, Susan Hirt Hagen CORE, PennState

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Becoming a Self-Aware Leader: Insights from the Enneagram

This session invites leaders to explore the Enneagram as a powerful tool for self-discovery and spiritual growth. By understanding your core personality type, you’ll uncover how your natural tendencies shape your leadership style, communication, and decision-making. In her relatable teaching style, Kristin will help you recognize your strengths and blind spots, enabling you to lead with greater self-awareness, empathy, and dependance on God. Whether you’re seeking to improve team dynamics or deepen your own leadership journey, this session points to who God created you to be—and who He is calling you to become as a leader.

Speaker Bio

Kristin Hesch developed an interest in youth and adolescents while pursuing her Psychology degree at Penn State Behrend, including an internship with The Ophelia Project. She obtained her master’s degree in organizational leadership from Mercyhurst University, with a research thesis focused on the roles of empathy and forgiveness in relational aggression. Kristin has spent the past 20 years mentoring middle and high school students in the Erie community through training, speaking, and facilitating networks of connection.