Thirty years helping capable people
become the communicator they should be
Jim Harvey is CEO of The Message Business, a communication and consulting firm working with FTSE 100 companies, senior leaders, sales teams, and consultants. His core work is charisma and personal impact — helping professionals who are already capable become the kind of communicator people remember.
The Charisma Quadrant framework grew out of that work. After three decades of watching talented people be overlooked, underestimated, or misread in rooms where they should have been thriving, the pattern became clear. It wasn’t competence that held them back. It was visibility, presence, and the specific social skills that turn expertise into influence.
Open-Source Charisma is the distillation of that work — a practical guide organised around four communicator types, with 125 specific activities drawn from real client situations. The Open-Source Charisma Indicator (OSCI) brings the framework online, giving anyone a precise picture of where they sit right now and what to work on first.
Jim is also the founder of Presentation Guru, one of the world’s leading resources for presentation skills and public speaking, and the creator of Management Ignite, a programme for managers who want to lead with greater clarity and confidence.