Open-Source Charisma — What Type Are You?

Add to your impact
when you want it most

The Open-Source Charisma Indicator — forty questions to show you how you come across right now, and specific advice on where to focus to stand out.

40Questions
4Quadrant types
10'To complete
FreeNo charge
The Charisma Quadrant

Four types.
One map.

Charisma is the product of two things: Confidence and Social Skills. Where you sit on each axis determines your type — and what to work on first.

01
Higher Confidence · Lower Social Skills
The Occasionally Overconfident

Sharp, capable, and sure of it. You get things done. But confidence without empathy can leave a trail of friction behind it. The missing piece isn’t skill — it’s connection.

02
Higher Confidence · Higher Social Skills
The Courteous Charismatic

Competent and connected. People follow you and you know why. The challenge now is keeping it real as the stakes rise — and not burning out by trying to be everything to everyone.

03
Lower Confidence · Lower Social Skills
The Unfortunately Invisible

Talented but overlooked. Your work speaks for itself, but too quietly. The gap isn’t ability — it’s visibility. The moment you get comfortable being seen, everything changes.

04
Lower Confidence · Higher Social Skills
The Unknowingly Influential

You connect naturally, build trust easily, and are often the person others gravitate towards. The only thing underselling you is you.

The Free Assessment

Find out which type
you are right now

The Open-Source Charisma Indicator gives you honest scores across eight subscales — and a personalised development plan based on where you actually need to focus.

  • Your Confidence and Social Skills scores out of 100
  • Your quadrant type and what it means in practice
  • A personal practice menu weighted to your lowest areas
  • Specific activities drawn from the book
  • A downloadable PDF of your results
Take the OSCI →
Open-Source Charisma Indicator

The OSCI

Free · Takes about 10 minutes · Instant results

40Questions
8Subscales
4Types
Begin the Assessment
James G Harvey
Open-Source
Charisma
125 Small Ways to Boost Your Charisma, Confidence, and Image
James G Harvey
The Book

Most professionals are more impressive
than they appear

The gap isn’t competence — it’s charisma. And charisma, despite what most people assume, is not a personality trait you either have or lack. It is a measurable skill with identifiable components that can be learned, practised, and made your own.

Open-Source Charisma is built around the Charisma Quadrant — a model that maps every communicator across two dimensions and places them in one of four types. The book then gives you 125 small, high-impact actions organised around your type. Not a transformation programme. Not a personality overhaul.

A map, and the moves that matter most from where you are standing right now.

Stay Connected

Ideas on charisma,
impact, and influence

Join the list. Practical thinking on how capable professionals become the kind of communicator people remember.