SPEAKING
Lee Fields, Speaker
Much of what divides us isn't disagreement. It's distortion.
Lee speaks on instinctual bias, clear thinking, and perspective-taking: how people come to notice different things first, and what it takes to see past their own lens. Her talks are practical, a little funny, and built to change how two people meet on Monday.
That's not how I remember it, but let's talk about it.
WATCH · LEE & SETH CREEKMORE ON ENNEAGRAM MBA, "COWORKER CHEMISTRY" (2026) ↗
SIGNATURE TALK
Notice What They Notice
Keynote or conference talk · Extends into a workshop as Trading Places
Listen like they do.
27 steps · deviled eggs
We each see the world through one of three instinctual biases. Learning to spot that lens is a critical-thinking skill, and it makes compassion and connection possible.
Two people talk past each other, each certain the other isn’t listening. Often they don’t disagree at all. They’re paying attention to different things. Knowing your pattern isn’t enough, because thinking errors protect it, so the talk pairs the model with a few clear-thinking habits.
THE AUDIENCE LEAVES WITH
A simple model of three instinctual biases: Preserving, Navigating, and Transmitting
A way to tell a different instinct from a character flaw
Three clear-thinking habits that keep awareness from becoming a label
A one-week experiment for one stuck relationship
The talk draws on the instinctual biases model developed by Mario Sikora of Awareness to Action International, and on research into confirmation bias, implicit bias, and cognitive dissonance.
Sessions & Workshops
Let’s practice.
Trading Places
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP · WITH ANALOGUE ENNEAGRAM
The signature talk as a hands-on workshop for teams and conferences.
A Plain Case for Joy
SESSION · WITH TEND THE YEAR
What the Idealists triad (points 1, 4, and 7) teaches everyone, built around the stagnation-to-savoring spectrum, with a creative practice and seasonal wisdom.
Fingerprints in the Clay
A MODERN HISTORY OF THE ENNEAGRAM · TALK OR SESSION
A modern history of the Enneagram, from Naranjo’s early groups and the Jesuit lineage to the major schools teaching today. Drawn from Lee’s interviews with founders and leading teachers, it traces how each lineage shaped the model, including the assumptions and blind spots each one brought. The Enneagram is a construct built by many people. When you know who threw the pots, you can begin to recognize their fingerprints in the clay. That isn’t bad in itself, but bias left unacknowledged muddies the water.
Thinking Well & the Enneagram
TALK OR PANEL
Why clear thinking and self-knowledge depend on each other, drawn from the podcast Thinking Well & Why with Mario Sikora & Seth Creekmore.
appearances
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IEA GLOBAL PODCAST · SAN FRANCISCO, 2023
CONFERENCES
IEA Global Conferences, San Francisco (2023) & Minnesota (2025): co-producer and co-host, IEA Global podcast; co-creator & co-producer, Story Booth experience.Returning for Laval, Quebec, Canada (July 2027).
IEA Southeast USA Board: Vice President & Programming Chair
SUMMITS
Typeish Enneagram Personal Growth Summit, 2026: instinctual biases, an early version of the signature talk
Enneagram & Coffee Enneagram Summit, 2021
PODCAST GUEST
Fathoms | An Enneagram Podcast, repeat guest, seasons 1-5
Enneagram & Coffee, S4E161 (2023)
Enneagram at Work, E231 (2026)
Enneagram MBA, “Coworker Chemistry: Enneagram Type 1 and Type 4 Dynamics at Work,” with Seth Creekmore (2026)
Artists for Joy, Enneagram series expert
Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, repeat guest
Enneagram Typecast, S1 E26 (2022)
Enneagram Coaching with Abbi Rodriguez, S2 E42 (2022)
HOST
Thinking Well & Why, with Mario Sikora and Seth Creekmore
IEA Global’s official podcast - including a history and lineage series Lee created with Seth Creekmore and produced with Creek, Seth Abram & Lindsey Davis: interviews and moderated conversations with IEA founders and leading teachers of the major Enneagram schools.
speaker bio
*It’s pronounced “deh-muhss-THEE-nee-uhn.”
Lee Fields teaches people to see themselves and each other more clearly. She is faculty with Awareness to Action International, co-hosts the podcast Thinking Well & Why with Mario Sikora and Seth Creekmore (her partner in Analogue Enneagram), and is co-authoring a forthcoming book on the instinctual biases with Mario Sikora and María José Muñita. She is also writing her own book, Fields’ Guide to Inner Work. Through the seasons, she tends a creative online community with Stephanie Spencer. She serves as Vice President and Programming Chair of the IEA Southeast USA Board. Her speaking roots are in Athens, where she was President of the Demosthenian* Society at the University of Georgia and learned to argue in good faith and take the other side seriously. Her working philosophy: be kind to people and ruthless with ideas. She is a former recipe tester with a 27-step deviled egg. But that’s a whole other talk.
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*It’s pronounced “dem-us-THEE-nee-an.”
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KEYNOTES · SESSIONS · WORKSHOPS · PODCASTS
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