X-Map™ · All 45 pairings

What is X-Map™?

X-Map™ is a communication map for leaders. It takes the nine Enneagram types and maps what happens when any two of them work together — 81 pairings across 18 dimensions of work, from decision-making and feedback to conflict, trust, sales and pace. That is 1,458 specific places where two people either click or predictably miss each other. X-Map was created by Daniel Yeo and Simyee Lim, co-founders of Business Enneagram Asia, from two decades of operating and advisory work across Asia.
How it works

A diagnostic for the conversation, not a label for the person

Most assessments describe one person. X-Map describes the space between two people — the manager and the new hire, the two co-founders, the sales director and the client. The conversations that go sideways in a team are rarely random. They are patterned, and the pattern can be read.

Each pairing shows three things: where the two types come naturally into step, where they need a small nudge, and where they need real work. The public pages below give the chemistry of every pairing. The full X-Map adds all 18 dimensions and how to bridge each gap.

X-Map uses the Enneagram as its depth layer, and it is built for Asian workplaces — tested with leaders in Malaysia, Singapore and China, and available in English and Chinese.

The 18 dimensions

What X-Map reads

Decision-makingGiving feedbackReceiving feedbackConflict approachCore motivatorUnder stress they…How trust is builtLeadership styleWhat they want from a leaderDelegation styleMeeting energyBuying speedWhat makes commitment safeHow they objectRole in a teamPace preferenceDisagreement styleWhat drains them
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All 45 Enneagram type pairings

Pick any two types. Don’t know your type yet? Take the free test first.

Type 1 · The Reformer

Type 2 · The Giver

Type 3 · The Achiever

Type 4 · The Individualist

Type 5 · The Observer

Type 6 · The Loyalist

Type 7 · The Enthusiast

Type 8 · The Challenger

Type 9 · The Peacemaker

The full tool

Pick your two types and read the full map.

For teams in Malaysia · HRD Corp claimable

Bring this to your leadership team

Business Enneagram Leadership is our 2-day intensive in Kuala Lumpur, run in English or 中文 through FutureX Leader, our advisory practice. Leaders find their type, learn to read the people they work with, and use X-Map on their own team. HRD Corp claimable under SBL-Khas, with nothing to pay upfront.

Early Access · apply now

Read your team with X-Map.

X-Map reads the human dynamics in your team — how any two people really work together, and where a whole team meets or collides. Now in early access: apply to test the full tool, free.

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