Dr. Ronna Phifer-Ritchie has been a coach, consultant, professor, public speaker/workshop leader, and author in the field of personality health & development, during the past four decades of her career. That rich professional history has filled her with great enthusiasm for the “big-shift” spiritual growth and relational enhancement work students and clients can do using The Enneagram of Personality.
Ronna is a specialist in the professional application of the Enneagram of Personality as a tool in leadership training and relationship coaching, for individuals, partners, and teams. She is an authorized Riso/Hudson Global Enneagram Institute Workshop Presenter.
Currently, after over 9,000 hours working as a professional presenter and facilitator, Ronna is using her semi-retirement years to create curriculum and run trainings for church and community leadership teams. She helps these leaders and their teams use the Enneagram of Personality as a spiritual, psychological, and social development tool. She has been a technical writer for publications in the field of personality science. And she has a formidable passion for helping individuals broaden and optimize personality style. She has been a a researcher & blogger on psycho-spiritual growth in relationships, and has completed advanced studies in couples counseling at the Bader & Pearson Couples Institute where she is a “1 in 1,000 Master Mentoring Program” graduate, having created a coaching model that integrated the Bader Pearson Couple Development Model with the Riso-Hudson Enneagram of Personality Levels of Development.
Ronna co-directed the Enneagram Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area for many years, served as a member of the editorial committee for the International Enneagram Association Professional Journal, and spent five years on the curriculum development team and junior faculty for theRiso-Hudson Enneagram Institute Enneagram Teacher Certification Training. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology and a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. Her doctoral research focused on the intersection of post-modern Christian spirituality, The Enneagram of Personality, and the broader field of personality science. Ronna is also a professional member of the International Enneagram Association, and an ICF Certified Life Coach . She is also a Certified Practitioner of the Meyers Briggs Type Indicatorfor College and Career Counseling.
Ronna has delivered thousands of hours of experiential Enneagram of Personality trainings that accelerate personality style awareness and development in audience members. As a former faculty professor in the Counseling Psychology Department at William Jessup University, she started that journey teaching undergraduate classes on effective relational skill building, so her students could successfully navigate the interpersonal challenges of professional ministry, marriage & family life, and beyond. Ronna has always delighted in cultivating psychological and relational growth in church and community leaders, their spouses, and their teams; especially when they are facing big transitions. She has been researching and teaching personality pathways into effective group dynamics, partnership health, and interpersonal conflict resolution for decades.
In her spare time, Ronna is a drummer for a few local gospel & Americana bands, a ballroom and line dance enthusiast, a grateful god-grandmom, and the wife of David Ritchie, a Bay Area musician!
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