The Open-Source
Charisma Indicator

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 a simple but powerful model: the Charisma Quadrant. It maps every communicator across two dimensions — Confidence and Social Skills — and places them in one of four types. The Incidentally Invisible: talented, prepared, and largely unseen. The Unknowingly Influential: warm and well-liked, but holding back. The Occasionally Overconfident: sharp and capable, but leaving friction behind. The Courteously Charismatic: the person everyone wants in the room.

The model works because it is honest. Most charisma books tell you to be more present, more engaging, more likeable. This one shows you exactly where you are, why, and what to do about it — in practical, specific steps drawn from thirty years of working with senior leaders, sales teams, and client-facing professionals.

The result is 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.

Find out which type you are. Then read the book.