Ophelia de Vere

  Sign up, sip coffee in a well-lit conference room, and leave with a laminated certificate and a vague sense of self-importance. Nowhere does this ritual play out more predictably than in my current communicating with impact seminar, where the leadership framework looks less like a cutting-edge roadmap to success and more like a highlights reel of what’s trendy in business self-help. The problem? It’s all feel-good fluff dressed up as academic insight. Beneath the polished PowerPoints and overpriced workshops lies a buffet of methodological flaws, Western-centric biases, and outright omissions that make leadership training more of a TED Talk fan club than an actual, evidence-based development program. MBTI: The Corporate Horoscope That Won’t Die Let’s start with the elephant in the seminar room: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The test that tells you whether you’re an “ENTP” or an “ISFJ” with the scientific rigor of a BuzzFeed quiz. This seminar, for some inexplicabl...